AE Hosuing Tutorial

Reorganising the HR function at AE Housing

1a Assume you were a new HR Business Partner responsible for one of the three regions of AE Housing. With reference to the case above, identify two key challenges you may face in ensuring the Director of Housing and the managers are appropriately supported and empowered 
to make decisions; and outline your strategies to address the challenges.

 Key Challenges:There may be some grievances bring up by the manager (comparing the past and present,inter alia, criticizing the new HR arrangement)
-Because the managers see the new HR arrangement has increased their workload, it may be difficult to gain trust with the managers and the Director of Housing
-Resistance to the change in HR arrangement from the manager and the communication may be difficult 

Ways to address the key challenges:
-Delivering tangible change quickly to demonstrate added value 
-Arranging regular meetings with the manager(s)to review HR metrics and give appropriate advice if necessary 
-Providing development plan focused to update the manager(s)in HR knowledge 
-Developing strong, professional relationships with other HR Business Partners 


1b AE Housing has changed the structure of the HR team and assumed the line managers to take up more HR responsibilities related to their subordinates. Identify the potential unintended consequences of such a change and suggest what the HR Director can do to minimize the unintended consequences. 

 Potential unintended consequences:
-Morale of HR team may drop as employees take time to learn new ways of working
-Reputation of the HR team may diminish whilst change is taking place-
 Directors and senior managers may feel the HR service is no longer required/could be outsourced as the managers believe they are doing their work
 -Directors may believe the HR service is no longer sufficiently responsive to business need and not adding value

HR Director should do the followings: 
-HR Director will need to get buy-in from Chief Executive and rest of the Board to ensure consistent messaging to employees
-HR Director will need to communicate consistently and regularly with the business
-HR Director will need to use staff surveys to understand any emerging morale issues and address them swiftly

MGTB442F Extended Essay

Part One: Students are required to write an essay (of length 1,000-1,200 words) to recommend an HR Development (HRD) method(s) to a selected company.

• Students can select one company and are assumed to be taking up the role of HR Manager. 

 The company must come from one of the following industries:
1. Innovation and Technology
2. Import and Export Trade
3. Green Technology & Environmental Services
4. Financial Services
5. Design
6. Convention and Exhibition;
7. Legal Services
8. Testing and Certification
9. Real Estate and Construction Services
10. Accounting
11. Management Consulting
12. Logistics
13. Film Entertainment
14. Publishing
15. Information and Communication Technology.

Note: Students are not allowed to use the same company in the group assignment.

Instructions for Part One: Writing the essay 
1 Use between 250-300 words to describe the background. Search on the website of the selected company to find out the vision, mission, values, nature of the business, products and services alike. Students need to understand the business nature of the company to make a recommendation.

2 Use between 600-700 words to describe the HRD method(s) that you recommend and explain the reasons. The recommended HRD method(s) should enable better learning and development of the employees in the selected company. The recommendation must make use of the contents of this course.
            2.1 Students are required to consider the impact of technologies and generational characteristics on the selection of HRD method(s).
            2.2 Students may include additional factor(s) such as culture or business strategy, if you can find them from the company’s website, to substantiate your recommendation of the HRD method(s) to the company.

3 Use between 150-200 words to discuss the limitations of the recommendation.

BBAHRMF3 Circulum

Term	Course Code	Course Title	Credits
Autumn	MKT B250F	Introduction to Marketing	5
	MGT B341F	Managing Key Functions in Human Resource Management: Labour Relations and Law	5
	MGT B344F	Theory and Design of Organizations	5
	MGT B441F	Human Resource Management: A Strategic Approach	5
Spring	MGT B342F	Managing Key Functions in Human Resource Management: Training and Development	5
	MGT B345F	Managing in Organizations	5
	MGT B399F	Management Policy and Strategy	5
	MGT B442F	Strategic Human Resource Management Issues	5

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