The Goshen Company has grown rapidly over the past five to ten years in terms of performance and the number of employees. It now commands a workforce in excess of 500 from its small beginnings of just 10 employees. There are still no clear cut policies guiding the running of the business. Salaries and promotions for example are determined in an ad hoc manner by the Managing Director. These among a tall list of grievances have led to the breeding of elements of discontent and dissatisfaction and there is now the fear it may start affecting their excellent performance levels. You have been called in as the HR expert to make a presentation to the management on the need to create an HR department in the Goshen Company to help streamline affairs of the company. You are also likely to be made the offer of handling the department and therefore you are poised to give it your best shot by including the following in the address! a. You are required to I. introduce and explain what human resource management entails ii. explain the four (4) key objectives of effective human resource management in an organization as The Goshen Company (10 mar ks) b. Discuss five (5) reasons why HRM is becoming important in organisations such as The Goshen Company (10 marks) The Kubuk organisation manufactures plastic products for the market. During the last management meeting it came up that the medical bills of the company has been rising dramatically over the last couple of years. The production manager also confirmed the increased rate of injuries and accidents in his production department. As HR manager you are tasked to educate employees on these issues concerning the organisation for a turnaround. a. Describe Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) to the employees and discuss four (4) reasons why health and safety at work is important with the employees at the meeting (10 marks) b. Discuss five (5) preventive actions the Kubuk organisation can engage in regarding Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) (10 marks) 3. Question 3 (20 MARKS) As the head of the HR department of your giant organisation, you have realized that the appraisal reports on your managers are not encouraging enough. You are therefore to write a proposal for discussion for a training program to be initiated for all the managers. How will you go about accomplishing this task considering the following? a. Describe the meaning of Management Development and explain four (4) reasons why Management Development is important (10marks) b. Explain five (5) training methods for managerial employees giving specific examples. (10 marks Question 4 (20 MARKS) Dawson Incorporated is to embark on recruiting some more staff to join the present team because of its expansion plans coming up in the next 3months. This in addition to its normal line of action calls up for a job analysis job to be executed. Your HR team has been notified to take it up a job analysis of some of the jobs selected for which the recruitment would be for. You are therefore required to discuss with your team on how you will go about conducting this exercise within Dawson Incorporated a. Explain Job Analysis for clearer understanding to team members and explain the four (4) data collection methods for conducting a job analysis and indicate which is most appropriate to use in each case of a job position. Jobs selected are a. an executive personal secretary, b. machine operators, c. cleaners (300) d. top level managers. (10 marks) b. Describe the five (5) steps you will be following in the execution of this job analysis procedure assignment (10 marks)
