Strategic Staffing

ASSESSMENT ITEM 1
Item 1: Essay – strategic staffing
Due Date: To be submitted online through Safe Assign by 10.00am Friday, August 18 (week 5)
Weighting: 35%
Length: (Min) 1000-1200 (Max) words.
You are to write a short essay addressing the following statement:
This assignment requires you to consider that you are a HR manager of a small-to-medium sized (100 employees) Australian-based engineering consultancy that specialises in a range of different types of engineering. Following a board meeting, the chairman suggests that the calibre of engineers required are not being attracted and recruited.
The current recruitment and selection process involves the engineering manager writing an advertisement based on a previous job description and what they think a suitable candidate should encompass, the advertisement is then uploaded onto the job advertisement website Seek.com.au, the HR assistant checks all applications for minimum qualifications and forwards a short list to the engineering manager, the manager then conducts unstructured interviews with the potential employees and selects based on the interviews.
You are asked to prepare a research-based essay on what might be some issues associated with recruitment and selection in this organisation. You are also asked to include in the essay, a suitable approach (recommendations) to improve recruitment and selection (note: all approaches should be developed from current research).
You must use at least FIVE refereed journal articles to support your arguments.
Notes
1.Do you know how to research for an essay? Do you know how to test whether a journal article is refereed or not? If you answered no to either of these questions, you are not alone. In this unit, you will be introduced to essay writing and the research skills required to provide supporting evidence for any essay or report.
2.When reviewing the required refereed journal articles, it is important to approach your review with the goal to critically analyse. Remember if you are writing about a particular topic (e.g. Resource Based View) it is important that you discuss the limitations and weaknesses, as well as the advantages. For example, how much do we currently know about RBV? What does the research say? What type of research is it? How credible is this research?
You might be thinking how is all this possible in maximum 1200 words? The answer is that critical thinking and analysis should start to take place before you have begun to write the essay. The key is to read widely so that you have the required information to formulate a critical argument.
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