MANAGINGPEOPLEANDORGANISATIONS MBA7100

ModuleCode

ModuleTitle

MBA7100

MANAGINGPEOPLEANDORGANISATIONS

AcademicYear

Semester

2024/25

TWO

ModuleLeaderemail

FKode@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Assessmenttitle

Abr.

Weighting

CaseStudyReport

WRIT2

70%

Passmarksare40%forundergraduateworkand50%forpostgraduateworkunlessstatedotherwise.

Task/assessmentbrief:Thisassessmentis aone-piecereport2800words.

Organisations are only as good as the people who work in them. Therefore, competitive pressures have increased the burden on organisations and presented several challenges for sustaining organisational growth. These challenges require strategic practice solutions for organisational survival.

Consequently, you are required to write a report with special focus on critical evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of organisational growth with emphasis on equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Your analysis must include ethical responsibility and at least 3 human resource management (HRM) strategies and approaches employed by organisations in sustaining growth in the post-pandemic era with a real-life organisation or industry as case study.

• Critically evaluating of the advantages and disadvantages of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and HRM strategies which must include talent recruitment and employee retention
• An evaluation of HRM approaches in addressing these strategies with special attention to ethical responsibility
• Support your analysis with theories from this module The report must contain the following:
• A real-life organisation or industry as case study
• Introduction to the topic and a rationale for its discussion (i.e. why does it matter?);
• Contextualise the EDI within the chosen organisation/industry (local, national, or global), particularly highlighting the advantages and disadvantages and the challenges related to some of the HRM strategies in the context of your chosen organisation or industry and the current situation (i.e. post- pandemic);
• Identify important HRM approaches with reference to contemporary theories;
• Emphasise ethical responsibility, equality, diversity, and inclusion in implementing the HRM strategies in your chosen organisation;
• The management of individuals and teams;
• Critically evaluate existing strategies in relation to talent recruitment and retention adopted by the chosen organisation/industry;

Analyse issues in recruiting and retaining talent in the chosen organisation/industry; and

Recommend appropriate talent recruitment and retention strategies for the effective transformation of the chosen organisation/industry in the post-pandemic era.

As an appendix to this report, you are required to write a reflective analysis of how feedback from WRIT1 has been fed forward in the improvement of your WRIT2 assessment in not more than 150 words. Please note that this is NOT included in the 2800 wordcount of the report.

Prescribedformatandstructureforthereport

Titlepage

Pleaseinclude:

Assignmenttitle Word count Student name Studentnumber Subject name

Executivesummary(aseparatepage)

Tableofcontents(aseparatepage)

1.Introduction(Approximately250words) (Introduction and rationale).

2.Mainbody(Approximately1700words)

2.5.

(Usedifferentheadingstocovertherequisitepointsofassignment.Forexample: Importance of HRM strategies in the chosen organisation/ industry

ChallengesandgapsinexistingHRMstrategiesadoptedbythechosenorganisation/industry

Criticalevaluationoftalentrecruitmentandretentioninthechosenorganisation/industry

3.Conclusion(Approximately350words)

Summariseyourmainpoints/arguments,highlightingtheimportanceofdevelopingappropriateHRM strategies for the transformation of the chosen organisation/industry.

4.Recommendations(Approximately400words)

Whyhavethesearisen?

Whatevidenceistherethatthesituationneedsaction? What action needs to be taken?

Academicortechnicaltermsexplained:

ArtificialIntelligenceModels Guidanceforthisassessment:

ArtificialIntelligence(AI)modelscanbeapowerfultooltosupportyourlearning.TheUniversityhas provided some resources to support you in its appropriate usage:

LibraryServicesAIHub

StudentGuidetoAIandAssessment

CodeofConductforStudentsontheuseofAI

CiteThemRightresourceoncitingmaterialsrelatingtoAI(ifpermitted)

NOUSEOFGENERATIVEAIEXPECTED

?

Yourassignmentshouldbeproducedusinginformationsourcedbyyoufrom yourlearningmaterialsandacademicsourcesandcitedappropriately.

AItoolsforcheckingspelling,grammarandreferencingmaybeused.

AIACKNOWLEDGED

YoucanuseAItoolstolearnaboutyourtopic,aspartofyourstudy,orin preparinginitialguidanceonassignments(e.g.headlinestructure, suggestions for inclusion of topics).

AnymaterialsthatyouhavesourcedfromAIshouldberewrittenor reconfiguredandintegratedintoyourownworkandreferenced appropriately.Itisrecommendedthatthisisconfirmedbyarelevant academicsource.

AnysupportgainedfromAIshouldbeacknowledgedinastatementatthe endoftheassignment,makingclearwhatthesupportwas,andhowyou useditanddevelopeditforyourownwork.Examplestatementsare availableintheStudentCodeofConduct[link].

AIEMBEDDED

UseofAIisanintegralandexpectedpartoftheassessment.

TheexplicitinclusionofAIwithintheassessmentmeansthatinstructions ontheexpectedusewillbepartoftheassessmentbrief.

Yourassessmentbriefwilldescribehowyoushouldacknowledgetheway in which you used AI tools.

Submission Deadline:

23May2025

Estimated FeedbackReturnDate

This will normally be 20 workingdaysafterinitial submission.

SubmissionTime:

By2.00pmonthedeadline day.

Moodle/Turnitin:

Anyassessmentssubmittedafterthedeadlinewillnotbemarkedandwillbe recorded as a non-attempt unless you have had an extension request agreed or have approved mitigating circumstances. See the School Moodle pages for more information on extensions and mitigating circumstances.

FileFormat:

Theassessmentmustbesubmittedasapdfdocument(savethedocument as a pdf in your software) and submit throughtheTurnitin submission point in Moodle.

Yourassessmentshouldbetitledwithyour:

studentIDnumber,modulecodeandassessmentID,

e.g.st12345678MBA7100WRIT2

Feedback

FeedbackfortheassessmentwillbeprovidedelectronicallyviaMoodle.Feedback will be provided with comments on your strengths and the areas which you can improve. View theguidanceon how to access your feedback.

Allmarksareprovisionalandaresubjecttoqualityassuranceprocessesand confirmation at the programme Examination Board.

Learningoutcomesassessed

3.Criticallyevaluatehumanresourcemanagementstrategiesandapproacheswithreferenceto contemporary theory

4.Criticallyevaluateethicalresponsibility,equality,diversity,andinclusionandsustainable organisational growth.

5.Criticallyreflectonthemanagementofself,individuals,andteams.

Otherskills/attributesdeveloped

ThisincludeselementsoftheCardiffMetEDGE(Ethical,Digital,GlobalandEntrepreneurialskills)and other attributes developed in students through the completion of the module and assessment. These will also be highlighted in the module guidance, which should be read by all students completing the module. Assessments are not just a way of auditing student knowledge. They are a process which provides additional learning and development through the preparation for and completion of the assessment.

Marking/AssessmentCriteria:Seeoverleaf

Element

90-100%WorthyofPublication

80-89%

Excellent

70-79%

VeryGood

6069%

Good

50-59%

Threshold

100marksavailable

15%

15%

25%

The student demonstratedoutstandingevidence of:

A chosen modern organisation/ industryascase study 15%

Identifying the keyelementsin the question, voiding of any errors 15%

Critically analysing the issues identified with emphasis on the key argumentsinthe analysis 25%

Use of relevant andappropriate

The student demonstratedexcellentevidence of:

Achosenmodern organisation/ industry as case study

Identify key elements in the questionvoidingof errors

Critically analysing the issues identified with emphasis onthekeyargumentsin the analysis

Use of relevantand appropriate academic or professional opinions and theoriestounderpin

The student demonstratedvery goodevidence of:

A chosen modern organisation/ industryasa case study

Identifying key elementsofthe question

Critically analysing the issuesidentified with emphasis on the key arguments

Use of relevant andappropriate academic or professional opinions and

theoriesto

The student demonstratedgoodevidence of:

A chosen modern organisation/ industryasacase study

Identifying key elementsofthe question with minoromission

Criticallyanalysingsomeof the issues identified with emphasis on the arguments

Use of relevant andappropriate academic or professional opinions and

theoriesto

Thestudentdemonstrated

satisfactoryevidenceof:

A chosen organisation/ industryascase study

Identifying key elements of the mainargumentsin the question with some omission

Criticallyanalysing and discussing someoftheissues identified with emphasis on the arguments raised andtheconclusion of the articles.

Use of relevant andappropriate academic or

30%

15%

academic opinions and theoriesinthe articles to underpin their answer30%

Using correct Harvard referenceformat for in-text citations and in reference list

15%

theiranswer.

Using correct Harvardreference format for in-text citations and in reference list.

underpintheir answer.

Using correct Harvard referenceformat for in-text citations and in reference list.

underpintheir answer.

Using correct Harvardreference format for in-text citations and in reference list.

professional opinions to underpintheir answer

Using Harvard reference format forin-textcitations and in reference listwithonlyminor errors.

Workwhichfails:

40 to49%

NotmetsomeLearningOutcomes

20 to39%

Notmetmanylearningoutcomes

1-19%

Nolearningoutcomesmetinfull

100marksavailable

Thestudentdemonstratedlimited or inconsistent evidence of:

Thestudentdemonstratedverylimited evidence of:

Thestudentdemonstratedlittleorno evidence of:

Acasestudyorganisation/ industry

Identifyingkeyelementsofthe main arguments in the question.

Identifyingkeyelementsofthe main arguments in the question.

Identifyingkeyelementsof the main arguments in the question.

Critically analysing the issues identifiedwithemphasisonthe arguments

Criticallyanalysingtheissues identified with emphasis on the arguments

Critically analysing the issues identified with emphasisonthearguments

Use of relevant and appropriate academic or professionalopinionsand theories to underpin their answer.

Useofrelevantandappropriate academic or professional opinions to underpin their answer.

AbilitytoutiliseHarvardformat for in-text citations and in reference listand/orthe

studentisunabletoparaphrase

Use of relevant and appropriateacademicor professional opinions to underpin their answer

.

AbilitytoutiliseHarvardformat for in-text citations and in reference listand/orthe

studentisunableto

Ability to utilise Harvard format for in-text citations andinreferencelistand/orthe student is unable to paraphrase or has plagiarised the work of others.

orhasheavilyplagiarisedthe work of others.

paraphrase or significantly plagiarisedtheworkofothers.

40 to49%

Unsatisfactory

20 to39%

1 to19%

Marksbetween45and 49% might indicate a narrow fail.

Thereisuneven attainment.

Workfallswellbelow Masters standard.

Mayhavepartially

met one or two learningoutcomes.

Work is very poor/incomplete and/or irrelevant and demonstratesaserious lackofcomprehension.

AssignmentswhichFailtomeetthestandardrequiredfor Masters Study:

Marks below 45% indicateaclearfail- some learning outcomes not met.

Manyassessment criteria are not addressed.

Students may have misunderstood or misinterpretedtheset task.

Some assessment criterianotaddressed.

Nolearningoutcomesare met in full although there may be minimal attainment in relation to one or two.