CIPD 7HR02 Resourcing and Talent Management to Sustain Success Assignment Example
Introduction
Your knowledge and understanding of the material covered in this specialist unit will be assessed through your answers to the four questions below.
You will write four answers of approximately 1000 words to the questions posed and submit them together in a single document. This constitutes your assessment for this unit. The total word count for the assessment will therefore be 4000 words, plus or minus 10%. The bibliography, list of references and essential appendixes (if applicable) are not included in the total word count – but the latter must be kept to a minimum.
You must demonstrate within the submitted evidence (through headings and sub-headings) which learning outcomes and assessment criteria have been cited. We are unable to moderate your work if this is not included.
As this is an Advanced Diploma, it is important that you are able to demonstrate not only good knowledge and understanding of the material associated with each learning outcome, but also the ability to develop an original argument and justify it persuasively with reference to wider reading. Examples of approaches taken in a range of organisations are also an effective means by which to justify your arguments.
The six main criteria that CIPD requires centres to use when marking your assessments are outlined below, but it may be that not all these criteria are present in every question.
- focus
- depth and breadth of understanding
- strategic application and professional advice
- research and wider reading
- persuasiveness and originality
- presentation and language
Watch the supporting video for this unit: https://youtu.be/GO7iIwTkdeE.
Assessment Questions
CIPD research shows that across the world a large proportion of employers are continuing to experience skills shortages and recruitment difficulties. The findings of the 2023 People Profession survey highlight that workforce planning, employee engagement and retention, and the management of performance and productivity are some of the top people priorities.
As a part of a periodic review of its people strategies your manager has asked you to lead a working party to examine and review the organisation’s resourcing and talent strategy that focuses on the following questions.
For the purpose of this assessment, you need to apply your answers to either your own organisation or one with which you are familiar.
It is essential that your reading of the published literature is used to inform your responses to all questions.
Question 1 (AC 1.1)
Analyse one external and one internal factor that is shaping the organisation’s resourcing and talent strategy. Recommend how this strategy could be improved to respond to these factors.
Question 2 (AC 2.4)
Make two justified recommendations as to how the organisation can improve the effectiveness of its employee induction programme and propose how its effectiveness can be evaluated.
Question 3 (AC 3.1)
To further enhance the organisation’s workforce planning, evaluate a short and a long-term approach that could be implemented to meet the current and future demand for talent, providing justification for why each would be appropriate.
Question 4 (AC 4.2)
Within the context of the organisation, evaluate two contemporary methods that utilise technology to manage both individual and team performance.
