28 Jan · Describe labor demand

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Activity 1

1- How can workforce mobilisation be used to address shortages identified when reviewing data on staff turnover? 75 words

2- The organisation you work for has asked you to analyse their existing workforce to determine areas where there are excesses or shortages or requirements for mobilisation. How would you do this? Explain 125 words

3- You have analysed the existing workforce of a catering organisation to determine areas where there are excesses or shortages. You have found that the organisation has a shortage of food preparation staff and excess of serving staff. What would you do to address these excesses and shortages? Provide at least five examples.

Activity 2

1- Name three sources you would use to research and review current and predicted external labour supply data, and demographic and economic data, to forecast human resources supply. What type of information to these sources provide? Why do you think these sources would provide a valuable source of information? (100-120 words)

2- You have been asked to review your organisation’s staff budgets as it is a factor that may affect workforce supply. What 14 things would you include in your calculations?

3- When calculating staff budgets, which method would you use? (100-150 words)

Activity 3

1- By law, what are organisations required to do or not do in relation to diversity of their workforce? (100-150words)

2- Identify five advantages of having a diverse workforce. Do not limit your responses to those ideas listed in the text.

3- Your organisation develops websites and online marketing tools for small business. The organisation does not have a particularly diverse workforce. In particular, the organisation does not tend to recruit older workers. This is because management feel that older workers will not have the technology skills needed to carry out work, even when they have qualifications in the field. What would you tell them about the need for and benefits of a diverse work force? (150-200 words)

Activity 4

1- What are retention strategies? (50-75words) provide five examples of things an organisation might do in an attempt to retain staff.

2- The organisation you work for makes and sells jewellery. In the past few years, the organisation has found that they are not making money on their line of watches so they have decided, as a part of their organisation strategy, to stop selling watches. This means that the workforce will need to be modified because watchmakers will no longer be needed. How might be the organisation modify its workforce? (50-75 words)

3- The organisation you work for sell PC’s and laptops. They have decided that they are going to start selling computer tablets (eg.ipads). They are expecting that this will significantly increase sales and will mean that more sales staff are going to be needed. How might the organisation modify its workforce in this situation? (100-150 words)

Activity 5

· 1 Define turnover. Why do organizations need to analyze turnover rates? (40–60 words)

· 2 You have analyzed the turnover rates in your organization and feel that they are unacceptably high. Others in the organization argue that turnover is to be expected. What would you say to them? (100–150 words)

3 You work for a hotel. In the past year, 35% of the hotel’s employees have left the organization. The organization deems this level of turnover to be unacceptable. You have conducted exit interviews with these employees.

The reasons employees have cited for leaving the organization include:

o more pay

o better career opportunities/ restricted opportunities for advancement

o lack of challenge

o negative relationships with supervisors, managers

o overloading employees

o incidents of discrimination

o health and safety issues

o poor job security

How would you address unacceptably high staff turnover rates with each of these reasons in mind? (75–100 words)

Activity 6

1- How would you explain the difference between role development and career development, both of which can be used as retention strategies? Why is it a good idea to implement each of these strategies? (150-200 words)

2- What one strategy would you implement to retain required skilled labour? You do not have to limit your ideas to those provided in the text. You might have your own ideas as to how organisations can retain skilled labour. Why do you think you chosen strategy is most important or would be most effective in retaining skilled labour? (100-150 words)

Activity 7

1- What would you do to manage diversity in the workplace? You do not need to restrict your response to ideas presented in the text. Provide at least 10 examples.

2 Write a diversity policy that support an organisation’s requirements for diversity in the workforce. (1 page)

Activity 8

1- Outline the advantages or disadvantages of the following different methods that can be used to source skilled labour.

a) Outline recruitment (at least five advantages and one disadvantage)

b) Company website advertising (at least one advantage and two disadvantages)

c) Newspapers (at least four advantages and three disadvantages).

2- Your organisation installs home theatre equipment. You have several teams that carry out installations and each team is overseen by a supervisor. One of your supervisors has resigned and you now need to source skilled labour to fill that position. You feel that some of the team members might be suitable for the positon. What recruitment strategy might you use in this situation? How would you do this? (100-150 words)

Activity 9

1- How might you communicate workforce objectives and rational to relevant stakeholders/employees? Provide at least 10 examples.

2- You work for a hospital. Previously, specific nurses were given all weekend shifts. Feedback gathered from other nurses that revealed that all nurses would like the opportunity to work weekends when greater shift penalties are paid. The organisation has decided that from now on weekend shifts will be distributed equally amongst all nurses. Write a memo to be distributed to all the nurses that work for the hospital communicating objectives and rationale of the changes to relevant stakeholders (150-200 words)

Activity 10

1- Identify two groups other than employees whose agreement and endorsement you would seek when setting objectives and targets and creating workforce plans. Explain why their agreement should be sought. (75-125 words)

2- Your organisation has decided that employers will no longer give employees rostered days off to compensate them for working overtime. Instead, employees will now be paid for any overtime they complete. What would you say to obtain agreement and endorsement for these changes? You should provide a transcript of a three minute speech that you would give to employees outlining the objectives of this change. You need to show that you have considered objections to or barriers to employee endorsement of this change. (200-300 words)

Activity 11

1- What are contingency plans? (50-75 words)

2- Develop a contingency plan to cope with the extreme situation of a large number of employees going on strike without notice. (200-300 words)

Activity 12

1- What is an implementation plan? (20-30 words)

2- It has been determined that your organisation needs to make changes to its workforce. Some staff will need to be recruited, some will need to undergo training, some will need to be redeployed and others are going to be made redundant. You have been asked to head up a team that is going to develop an implementation plan. None of the team has done this before so it is up to you to explain what an implementation plan should contain and how it should be written. What would you tell them? (150-200 words)

3- What things would you include in the WBS section of an implementation plan? (100-150 words)

Activity 13

1- According to this article, what are the possible negative effects of when organisations do not develop and implement strategies to assist workforce to deal with organisational change? Provide at least five examples.

Possible negative effects are:

Possible negative effects are:

2- According to this article, what can organisations do to assist the workforce deal with organisational change? Provide at least five examples.

Activity 14

1- Outline the issues that can make it difficult for people from diverse cultural backgrounds to secure employment. (150-200 words)

2- Identify six strategies with the potential to attract and recruit more Indigenous Australians to help organisations to attract a diverse workforce. You might need to carry out your own research to complete this activity.

Activity 15

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1- What is succession planning? (50-75 words)

2- Identify 10 Characteristics outlined in the extract of best practise succession planning systems and management that ensure desirable workers are developed and retained.

3- How would you identify desirable workers who can be developed and retained to fill key position that might become vacant within the organisation? You do not have to limit your ideas to those provided in the text. Why do you think your method of identifying desirable workers would be best? (75-125 words)

Activity 16

1- What is an employer of choice? (30-50 words)

2- Select one organisation that you consider to be an employer of choice. For example, Google is an organisation that is widely considered to be an employer of choice. What programs does your chosen organisation implement to ensure the workplace is an employer of choice? Provide at least five examples. You will need to undertake your own research to complete this activity; however, this research can be carried out online.

3- What program/benefit would you consider to be the most valuable that might be offered by employer of choice? Explain. (100-150 words)

Activity 17

1- An employee who has been with your organisation for many years has handed in their resignation. You are surprised they are leaving and they have not really provided any reasons for their decision to exit. What should you do? (100-150 words)

2- Your organisation does not currently conduct exit interviews when employees leave the organisation. They do not feel that there is anything to be learnt from employees who are clearly disgruntled. They suggest that the employee will not have anything objective to say and that they will only be interested in criticising the organisation. What would you tell them about the need to conduct exit interviews to identify patterns in turnover? (100-200 words)

I’d tell them that exit interviews are very important in an organisation. They should always conduct exit interviews in order to determine why the people is leaving. If a group of employees are giving the same reason for leaving, organisations should take action to resolve those issues.

Activity 18

Choose an industry in which there is an undersupply of labour. Summarise the situation in that industry. Explain why there is an undersupply of labour in that industry. What are the effects of the labour trends in this industry on the demand for labour? What can be the organisation do to nullify the effects of the labour trends? You will need to carry out your own research to complete this activity. (200-250 words)

Activity 19

1- Create a questionnaire that could be used to survey organisational climate to gauge worker satisfaction. The questionnaire should include questions for each of the commonly used categories of organisational climate questionnaires. These questions need to differ from those given in the sample survey. You should ask at least 15 questions.

2- Ask three people to complete your questionnaire. Ideally, these will be three people from the same workplace but you might chose to survey family or friends about their work climate. What conclusions would you draw from responses to your survey about organisational climate and worker satisfaction? What advice would you give the organisation as a result of your survey? (100-200 words)

Activity 20

1- What was the global financial crisis? (50-75)

2- What were ten of the effects of the global financial crisis?

3- There has been a downturn in the economy on a global scale. Your organisation, which organises overseas holidays for families has been hit hard by this downturn. People are scared of spending money and are cutting back on luxuries including travel. As a result, you have too many staff for the amount of business coming in. What recommendations would you make in response to this situation? Provide at least three examples.

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2- Choose one current government policy relating to labour demand and supply. This policy should not be the same as the one mentioned in the text. Write a one page report outlining how the government policy affects labour demand and supply.

Activity 22

1- You run a security business. You supply bouncers and security guards to a chain of nightclubs. A number of the nightclubs have complained that flights are breaking out in areas of the clubs when security staff are elsewhere. What changes might need to be made to the workforce plan to address this issue? (30-50 words)

2- How would you evaluate effectiveness of change processes made to address the nightclub’s concerns against agreed objectives? What should be done if the change was determined to be ineffective? (100-150 words)

The steps that might be observed in the development of remedial action include:

1- HR professionals provide management with notification of which workforce initiative or which part of the workforce plan is problematic or failing to meet objectives.

2- Specific details of the problem are explained.

3- Reference is made to the objectives not being met.

4- The cause of the problem is outlined.

5- Management is given advice as to what corrective/remedial actions need to be taken.

6- HR professionals gain authorisation from management to carry out corrective/remedial action.

7- Corrective/remedial action is carried out within a specified time frame.

8- The amended workforce plan or initiative is monitored to ensure that it is meeting agreed objectives.

Questions

1- How might organisations gather current information about labour supply relevant to their specific industry or skill requirements provide at least 10 examples.

Outline what industrial relations are and how they can assist organisations in maintaining a skilled workforce. You might need to conduct your own research to answer this question. (100-150 words)

Describe labour demand forecasting. What is labour supply analysis? (20-50 words)

Labour demand forecasting is the plan put in place to cater for any demand on workforce, whether is to decrease personnel or to look for new skilled people to cover for grow or any extra work if there is pick season demand.

There are number of methods which can be used to estimate future staffing requirements and determine what actions need to be taken when forecasts suggest that organisations will have a shortage or surplus of employees. Identify and explain three. (300-400 words)

Question 2

· Outline what industrial relations are and how they can assist organizations in maintaining a skilled workforce. You might need to conduct your own research to answer this question. (100–150 words)

Question 3

· Describe labor demand forecasting. What is labor supply analysis? (20–50 words)

Question 4

· There are a number of methods which can be used to estimate future staffing requirements and determine what actions need to be taken when forecasts suggest that organizations will have a shortage or surplus of employees. Identify and explain three. (300–400 words)

Summative assessment 2

Project 1

· Minnesota Management and Budget (2005) define workforce planning as: