Prepare a detailed plan at a domestic level for development of strategic HRM

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Overview
Length: 2500 words (+/- 10%)
For this assessment, you will need to provide a rationale for the introduction or further development of strategic HRM in your own or another organisation and prepare a detailed plan at a domestic level. Following this, you will consider the contextual factors of IHRM in their chosen country (selected in Week 1). Finally, you will articulate and justify HR-specific recommendations to support the success of an international expansion of your selected organisation to the identified country are detailed in convincing and innovative ways.
This report and plan will assess your ability to: 

1.provide a rationale for your decision to make strategic changes to the organisation based on established theory and best practice in HRM,
2.develop a detailed plan for the development or improvement of strategic HRM, 
3.analyse a selected country focusing on the contextual factors of strategic international HRM (IHRM), and
4.develop a high-level plan to address the changes required for successful implementation of strategic HRM in an international environment (i.e. one selected country).
Purpose
The purpose of this assessment is for you to devise and compose a strategic HRM plan for an organisation. This could be your current organisation, an organisation you worked at before, or one of your interest. Create a conceptual map of the key HR issues and provide a rationale for why you have chosen these issues. The conceptual map shouldn't be submitted for grading. You can create one if you want a visual as you complete this assessment. You will then develop an HR action plan with recommendations for strategic changes. You will also identify the key strategic HRM issues and make recommendations for your organisation's planned international extension into a selected country.
Work-based skills
Upon completion of this assessment, students you will be able to:
1.critically examine theory, models, best practice and best fit as applied to an organisation,
2.critically analyse the appropriate steps to implement a plan,
3.adapt domestic application to future international expansion,
4.undertake high-level planning and conceptualisation at a strategic HR level, and conduct an in-depth analysis and clearly align recommendations (plan) to implement or improve strategic HRM.
Task
You will create a strategic HRM plan for an organisation. This could be your current organisation, an organisation you worked at before, or one of your interest. After identifying the key HR issues and providing a rationale, you will develop an HR action plan with recommendations for strategic changes. You will also identify the key strategic HRM issues and make recommendations for your organisation's planned international expansion into a selected country.
The following steps will help you complete this assessment:
1.Analyse the key HR issues that need to be addressed from a strategic perspective. You must engage in observation supported by examples or interviews with an HR manager or other senior managers and describe in priority order, the key strategic HR issues your organisation is facing. (500 words)
2.Justify strategic changes you believe the organisation should make based on established theory and best practice. You must integrate contemporary HR theory and examples of best practice into a well-constructed justification for these changes to the organisation. (500 words)
3.Construe a detailed plan for the development or improvement of strategic HRM in priority order with action time frames and measures of success. (500 words)
4.Analyse the key issues in strategic IHRM for your chosen country with recommendations for success in the selected country. (250 words)
5.Critically reflect on the key differences between domestic HRM and the selected country. Argue the case for best practice versus best fit and the issue of localisation. (500 words)
6.Provide recommendations on the top three identified issues that you would see needed to be addressed if your company was to expand to the selected country. (250 words)
Apply as much relevant content from this unit as possible from Weeks 1 to 6 and consider the models and frameworks from across the unit to assist in your analysis.
Note: Your weekly discussion forums will have provided you with a significant amount of information and analysis of the selected country. Integrate the relevant analyses and discussion in the report. Descriptive information on the county should be in an appendix