Module leader:

Deputy Module Leader:

Precious Oseki

Nazreen Akhtar

Assignment

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Monday 2nd December 2024 2:00 pm

BTM5HUR_SEP22: Case Study - First Submission Inbox | Global Banking School

Wednesday 4th December 2024 2:00 pm

BTM5HUR_SEP22: Case Study - Late Submission Inbox | Global Banking School

Friday 7th February 2025 2:00 pm

BTM5HUR_SEP22: Case Study - Resubmission 1 Inbox | Global Banking School

Friday 4th April 2025 2:00 pm

BTM5HUR_SEP22: Case Study - Resubmission 2 Inbox | Global Banking School

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This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of

the following module learning outcomes:

Demonstrate a critical understanding and evaluation of key theories and concepts in human

resource management.

Explain and apply key principles and practices in employee staffing and staff development, with

reference to employment law considerations.

Evaluate the importance of human resource management, in terms of both strategy and practice,

for the performance of businesses with application to the tourist industry

Show critical awareness of current debates and the challenges facing human resource

management.

Overview

This assignment involves preparing a 4,000 words Case Study Report on your understanding of Human Resource Management (HRM). You are required to use theories, concepts and contemporary practices to support your argument. You are required to use examples from the case study organisation Hilton Hotels for further research and the tourism industry where necessary to demonstrate a clear understanding of the theories, concepts and contemporary practices of HRM and why they are important for organisational performance.

The report must be submitted in Microsoft Word format. You must include appropriate in- text citations and references according to CCCU Harvard referencing style.

WHAT YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO?

You are required to read the case study (Hilton Hotels), consider the points and questions

below and then write a report of 4,000 words (this can be over or under by 10%, i.e., 400

words) in relation to your analysis of the case organisation:

1. Explore the HRM functions in the case study organisation (Hilton Hotels) and the different approaches to understanding HRM.
2. Examine how the Human Resources (HR) department can effectively manage employee resourcing (employee recruitment, selection processes and induction as well as the practical application of these practices).
3. Review employee development strategies that could be used to enhance HR and overall business performance.
4. Include examples of industry practices from different organisations that could enable Hilton Hotels to manage the current HR issues confronting its operations.

i. The Assignment Brief should be used in conjunction with the Assignment Guide as

1. You must use the correct Canterbury Harvard Referencing conventions for your in- text citations and reference list. Please refer to the Canterbury Harvard Referencing Guide.
2. You must research, read, apply and reference the core and recommended resources for the module as well as additional academic resources.
3. Make sure you proofread and edit your work prior to final submission to avoid

Mandatory Referencing and Research Requirements

CCCU Harvard Referencing Style.

Mandatory Sources to be included in the Assignment

Essential Resources (available on shelves and electronically in GBS library) Core:

• Wilton, N. (2022) An introduction to human resource management, 5th ed. London: SAGE Publications.

Recommended:

• Armstrong, M. and Taylor, S. (2023). Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of People Management, 16th ed. London: Kogan Page Publishers.
• Bratton, J. and Gold, J. (2017). Human Resource Management – Theory and Practice. 6th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Beardwell, J. and Claydon, T. (2017). Human Resource Management – A Contemporary Approach. 8th ed. Harlow: Pearson
• Burke, R.J., (2018). Human resource management in the hospitality and tourism sector. In Handbook of human resource management in the tourism and hospitality industries, pp.3-39. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

Additional resources/Journals

• BBC News (2020) ‘Hospitality worst-hit as unemployment rises again’, 15 December. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55313752 (Accessed: 10 October 2024).
• CIPD (2022) A Guide to Inclusive Recruitment for Employer [online]. London: CIPD. Available at: https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/guides/inclusive-employers/#what-is-equality-diversity-   and-inclusion-edi (Accessed: 13 October 2024).
• CIPD (2023) Employee Engagement and Motivation [online]. Factsheet. London: CIPD. Available at: https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/factsheets/engagement-factsheet/ (Accessed: 14 October 2024).

• CIPD (2023) Employee relations: An introduction [online]. Factsheet. London: CIPD. Available at: https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/factsheets/relations-employees-factsheet/  (Accessed:  16

  October 2024).

• FT.com
• GOBI E-books
• IndianJournals.com
• Industry Studies Working Papers
• JSTOR Journals
• Library Catalogue
• Milne Open Textbooks
• SCOAP3
• Supplemental Index

Format of your submission and how your assignment will be assessed

This assignment should be submitted electronically via Moodle (module tutors will discuss this process with you during class time).

• You must submit your work in Word document format of the case study report.
• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.
• Please ensure that you have submitted your work in the correct link on the assessment tab. Also note that students may be penalised for submitting their assessments in the wrong link. 
• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.
• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: Academic Misconduct Policy. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations.
• It is the complete and sole responsibility of the student to upload their assessment to Turnitin for Marking prior to the specified deadline. Students should not request lecturers to submit assessments on their behalf as they are unable to do so.
• To avoid uploading issues, students should aim to upload their assessment several hours before the deadline to avoid Turnitin issues around the deadline time or accidentally submitting to the wrong submission link. It is recommended to check that the assessment that has been uploaded can be read after you have uploaded it and if not to re-upload it. Contact the SST on your campus if you have any issues.
• Any assessment submitted after the specified deadline will incur a late penalty as specified in CCCU Academic regulations unless prior approval has been granted for Exceptional Circumstances.

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend on your use of academic referencing conventions.

If you fail this assessment, you will have to resubmit an Individual assignment. This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 5.

Submission Requirements

Submission

Platform

All submission & resubmission dates and times are as stated at the beginning of this Assignment brief.

You should submit your Assignment for all deadlines earlier than 2:00 pm on the date stated.

Late submissions can be accepted for Summative Submissions only up to a maximum of 2 working days after the submission deadline. This does not apply to resubmission deadlines. 10 marks deduction will be made by CCCU for all late submissions.

Work submitted more than two working days after the deadline will not be accepted and will be recorded as a non-submission.

Assignments submitted to the resubmission deadlines will be capped at 40 by CCCU.

If you are affected by events which are unexpected, outside your control and short-term in nature (i.e. lasting one to two weeks), under the exceptional circumstances procedure you may be eligible for:

• A seven (7) day extension to your coursework (via self-certification request).
• A fourteen (14) day extension to your coursework (via evidence-based request).
• To defer your exam or time-constrained assessment if you have not yet submitted/attempted it (via self-certification or evidence-based request).
• To re-take an exam/time-constrained assessment, if you feel your performance on your first attempt was negatively impacted (via impaired performance request).

Please note students are only eligible to have a maximum of 2 self-certification requests per academic year.

You can make a self-certification request up to 14 calendar days before your deadline:

• for coursework it must be no later than 2 pm on the deadline date
• for exams and time-constrained assessments, the request must be submitted no later than the start time of the assessment.

Suspected Academic Misconduct or Breach of Academic integrity

The Assignment will be graded zero. Written feedback will be ‘This assignment has been identified as potential Academic Misconduct/Breach of Academic Integrity. You will be invited to a meeting to discuss’.

You will be invited to a meeting with an academic Misconduct reviewer. When you attend the meeting if Academic Misconduct or the breach of Academic Integrity is upheld you will be asked to rewrite the section of the assignment it applies to and re-submit the assignment.

Do not upload any assignments to the AMC submission links before the meeting otherwise it will be removed.

Failure to attend the meeting means the assignment will remain graded at

zero and you will be unable to pass the module until you have attended the meeting.

The assignment is more than 10% over the prescribed wordcount i.e. for 3,000 words, if 3,400 is submitted excluding the cover page, table of contents, references and appendices.

A 10-mark deduction applied to the overall grade that is manually entered by the Lecturer. This deduction is capped at 40%, which means an assignment cannot get less than 40% if a deduction has to be made.

For example, if the mark for the assignment was 60. The lecturer would deduct 10 marks and the mark will be 50. Written feedback will also state ‘This assignment is 10% over the wordcount and 10 marks have been

deducted’.

Where assignments are more than 10% less than the prescribed wordcount and lecturers cannot identify if the learning

outcomes have been met.

This assignment will be graded below 40.

Where a student submits a .pdf instead of a word document.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This is a pdf submission and is not allowed. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word

format’.

Students not working in their groups as agreed by the lecturer.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This submission was not completed in the designated group’.

Please note: Where a student has asked the lecturer to move from their original group and the lecturer has agreed this does not apply.

For a presentation assignment that requires oral delivery, and the student

does not present in person.

The Oral rubric criteria is not moved, and the oral criteria will remain at zero.

For a presentation assignment and the student does not upload a converted PPT

To Word File with speaker notes.

For a presentation assignment that requires oral delivery, and the student did not present on the day or upload the presentation to a Word document with

speaker Notes.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There was no Oral presentation in class and the submission was not converted to Microsoft Word’.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There are no slides present in the assignment submission’.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This resubmission should be individual and a minimum of 25% of the assignment

If a group assignment is failed then the resubmitted work must be changed by a minimum of 25% to make it an individual piece of work.

This means if a Group Presentation is 12 slides a minimum of 3 must be different to the group submission. If the assignment is a Group Poster with 6 text boxes then a minimum of 2 of them must be different

to the Group Poster.

Where a written assignment has text that is unable to be read by Turnitin because it is either a graphical image (excluding Presentations & Posters); for example, a screenshot or the assignment is written

within text boxes on each page.

This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment is unreadable by Turnitin and cannot be checked for Academic Misconduct. It has been referred for an AMC meeting’.

The assignment will then be referred for Academic Misconduct investigation.

An assignment that does not make use of any Mandatory references provided in the

assignment brief/Module Handbook.

The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero

An assignment has a reference list, but no citations.

The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero.

Written feedback should state ’The reference criteria has been graded Zero as no citations have been used. Please include citations in your assignment

to support the academic points being made’.

An assignment has no citations and no reference list.

Foundation & Level 4 - The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero. The written feedback will state ‘Please ensure that you use citations and references to support your assignment submission’.

At Level 5 and Level 6 this would be graded as a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback will also show ‘This assignment has no citations and no reference list’.

Where False references are included in an assignment.

This will be referred for Academic Misconduct.

This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment contains false references and has been referred for Academic Misconduct. You will be invited to attend an Academic Misconduct meeting’.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback should state 'This assignment was submitted after the deadline. Please resubmit at the next

resubmission opportunity.'