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7001 EHR Assignment Preparation

1) Essay and the Industry Project Plan: This item will require student to consider an

industry-based topic that integrates the content from various aspects of the course.
The Plan is a formative piece of assessment that will allow the convenor to provide
feedback on argument, content, references and writing style.

Stage 1. 300-500 words.

This is really an assignment plan. You must provide an ‘industry-based topic’. You could
choose anything that you know something about here. For example, international students
working in the restaurant sector in Australia. Or perhaps, something that you seek to pursue
as a career after your Masters – for example, Accountant. Another option is to choose an
industry sector – for example, education or mining or construction etc. From here, you must
tell me what is important an interesting about your topic – that is, explain why it is an
important area to research. Is it a large part of the economy? How large? Is it a culturally
important issue? In what ways? Is it under-researched?

The next stage is to select a number of the topics that are discussed throughout the
semester. We have many to choose from – see the course outline. Some examples include –
the role of the government, unions and employer associations, diversity and equity, reward
systems, performance management and more. I would suggest you select two areas to
investigate fully.

Finally, put together some dot points around the topics – those areas which you would like to
cover for your main assignment. Remember, I will provide feedback on your first stage
assignment for you to make the main assignment of 2000 words a stronger piece of work.

There are two examples below for you to read. One is clearly much better than the other. DO
NOT use my sentences – I wrote them and have read them many times over the years – just
use these as examples and use your own words.

Keith

7001
 EHR
 –
 Principles
 of
 Human
 Resource
 Management
 and
 Employment
 Relations.
 

 

Assignment
 1:
 Mock
 Project
 plan
 (300-­‐500
 words).
 
 

Introduction:
 
 

Immediately
 following
 World
 War
 1
 the
 Paraguayan
 government
 invested
 heavily
 in
 the
 
paperclip
 manufacturing
 sector
 in
 an
 attempt
 to
 develop
 the
 sector
 to
 be
 a
 ‘world’s
 leading’
 
maker
 of
 office
 supplies,
 in
 particular,
 the
 paperclip
 (Paraguayan
 Ministry
 of
 Paperclips,
 
1964).
 However,
 as
 a
 land-­‐locked
 country
 in
 South
 America,
 the
 government’s
 goal
 not
 only
 
faced
 multiple
 hurdles
 in
 geographic
 and
 economic
 terms,
 but
 also
 in
 the
 management
 of
 
people
 (Paraguay
 Bureau
 of
 Statistics
 [PBS],
 2010).
 Nevertheless,
 the
 sector
 has
 grown
 to
 be
 
the
 second
 largest
 exporter
 within
 the
 country
 (PBS,
 2011).
 This
 assignment
 will
 outline
 the
 
larger
 assignment
 which
 will
 focus
 on
 two
 components
 of
 Human
 Resource
 Management
 
(HRM)
 and
 Industrial
 Relations
 (IR)
 within
 the
 paperclip
 manufacturing
 sector
 in
 Paraguay.
 
 

The
 following
 section
 of
 this
 assignment
 will
 outline
 the
 two
 main
 areas
 of
 HRM
 and
 IR
 that
 
are
 relevant
 to
 this
 sector.
 They
 are:
 unions
 and
 recruitment.
 
 

 

UNIONS:
 
 

Traditionally,
 unions
 have
 been
 seen
 as
 a
 means
 for
 workers
 to
 come
 together
 and
 advocate
 
for
 improved
 rights
 and
 working
 conditions
 (Johnson,
 2001).
 However,
 the
 Paraguayan
 
experience
 is
 somewhat
 different
 because
 of
 strong
 state
 regulation
 determining
 that
 
unions
 can
 only
 bargain
 over
 wages
 and
 not
 other
 working
 conditions
 (Smith,
 1987).
 This
 
difference
 between
 what
 unions
 do
 throughout
 the
 world
 and
 what
 they
 can
 do
 in
 Paraguay
 
will
 be
 explored
 throughout
 the
 main
 assignment.
 Evidence
 suggest
 that
 unions
 have
 found
 
many
 novel
 ways
 around
 the
 legislation
 to
 support
 their
 members
 in
 the
 paperclip
 
manufacturing
 sector
 (Tollard,
 2008).
 
 

RECRUITMENT:
 
 

Organisations
 have
 long
 faced
 a
 battle
 in
 developing
 nations
 to
 match
 the
 staff
 they
 recruit
 
with
 the
 skills
 required
 to
 perform
 the
 work
 (Holliday,
 2007).
 However,
 this
 has
 not
 been
 the
 
case
 in
 Paraguay.
 The
 government
 implemented
 many
 successful
 policies
 to
 support
 
organisation
 in
 recruiting
 the
 best
 paperclip
 makers
 from
 throughout
 the
 world
 (Smith,
 
2004).
 Throughout
 the
 main
 assignment
 I
 will
 investigate
 the
 strategies
 that
 have
 been
 
employed
 within
 organisations
 to
 match
 recruitment
 policies
 and
 practices
 with
 the
 skills
 
required.
 
 

References:
 
 

Holliday,
 A.,
 (2007)
 ‘Matching
 Expectations:
 An
 Australian
 Case
 Study’
 International
 Journal
 
of
 Recruitment,
 45(2):
 876-­‐987.
 

Johnson,
 C.,
 (2001)
 ‘Unions
 do
 what?’
 International
 Journal
 of
 Awesome
 Industrial
 Relations
 
Research,
 21
 (3):
 545-­‐567.
 
 

Paraguay
 Bureau
 of
 Statistics,
 (2011)
 Sectoral
 Statistics
 in
 Paraguay,
 Catalogue
 no
 
65356.8.000.
 Paraguay
 Government
 Press,
 Asuncion
 

Paraguay
 Bureau
 of
 Statistics,
 (2010)
 Historical
 Development
 and
 Current
 Statistics
 of
 
National
 Paperback
 Sector,
 Catalogue
 no
 40345.4.450.
 Paraguay
 Government
 Press,
 
Asuncion
 

Paraguayan
 Ministry
 of
 Paperclips,
 (1964)
 Developing
 a
 Nation
 on
 the
 Back
 of
 a
 Paperclip,
 
Paraguay
 Government
 Press,
 Asuncion.
 
 

Smith,
 J.,
 (1987)
 ‘What
 Can
 Unions
 do
 in
 South
 America?’
 South
 American
 Journal
 of
 
Industrial
 Relations,
 32
 (3):
 34-­‐65.
 
 

Smith,
 P.,
 (2004)
 ‘When
 State
 Intervention
 Works:
 The
 Paraguay
 Paperclip
 Experiment’,
 
Journal
 of
 Everything
 that
 can’t
 get
 Published
 in
 Good
 Journals,
 1(1):
 1-­‐12.
 
 

Tollard,
 U.,
 (2008)
 ‘Supporting
 around
 the
 Legislation:
 Union
 strategy
 in
 the
 Paperclip
 Sector
 
in
 Paraguay’,
 International
 Journal
 of
 Nonsensical
 Publications,
 43
 (4):
 45-­‐98.
 

RESULT 7/10 — NAME? PAGE NUMBERS? CONCLUSION?

7001
 EHR
 –
 Principles
 of
 Human
 Resource
 Management
 and
 Industrial
 Relations.
 
 
Assignment
 1:
 Mock
 Project
 plan
 Version
 2(300-­‐500
 words).
 
 

Introduction:
 
 

In
 this
 assignment
 I’m
 going
 to
 look
 at
 the
 way
 HRM
 and
 IR
 operate
 in
 the
 paperclip
 
manufacturing
 sector
 in
 Paraguay.
 This
 part
 of
 the
 Paraguay
 economy
 is
 the
 second
 largest
 
part
 (Wikipedia,
 2011).
 I
 will
 look
 at
 two
 areas
 of
 HRM
 and
 IR.
 They
 are
 unions
 and
 
recruitment.
 Loudoun,
 McPhail,
 and
 Wilkinson
 (2009)
 regard
 unions
 and
 recruitment
 as
 two
 
important
 parts
 of
 employment
 relations.
 
 

 
UNIONS:
 
 

Unions
 are
 highly
 regulated
 in
 Paraguay
 and
 are
 different
 from
 unions
 in
 other
 parts
 of
 the
 
world.
 I
 will
 talk
 about
 what
 they
 do
 in
 Paraguay
 for
 paperclip
 workers.
 
 

RECRUITMENT:
 
 

The
 skills
 required
 for
 making
 paperclips
 are
 important
 and
 I
 will
 look
 at
 what
 skills
 are
 
required
 and
 how
 managers
 recruit
 the
 right
 people
 for
 the
 job.
 
 
 

RESULT — 1/10 … you can see why.