Critically Evaluate the Effectiveness of HR Planning. Choose a UK (or International) Business Sector: Resourcing and Talent Management Assignment, SHU

Assignment Details:

Critically evaluate the effectiveness of HR planning. Choose a UK (or international) business sector and explore how HR planning may (or may not) be used to help organizations within that sector respond to political or legislative changes that impact upon its labour market.

Use academic research, statistical and case study evidence to explore both the labour market you have selected and the differing HR planning approaches that may be adopted (or not) by your selected case study organization (s).

This element of the coursework aims to assess the following learning outcomes and should, therefore, be considered within your written submission:

• Analyze and evaluate the major features of national and international employment markets from which organizations source staff and the ways in which markets evolve and change, demonstrating awareness of the changing nature of work and the requirement to have a workforce that can operate flexibly as labour demands fluctuate.  This is not an essay about ‘flexible working’ but about a ‘flexible workforce’ the composition of which will change according to organization demand and labour market dynamics.
• Critically analyze the impact of internal and external organizational factors and how these impact on workforce planning strategies and initiatives.
• Take into account the ethical considerations that need to be considered when developing HR (workforce) plans.
• Critically evaluate the different approaches to workforce planning within the context of your case study illustration(s)
• Critically evaluate the sources and evidence base for knowledge that underpins this discipline. Please remember this is an HR essay – not a political, economic, or legislative essay, to please focus your writing and research efforts on Human Resource Management.
• Fully compliant with APA referencing requirements.