Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Managing People
(7BM025)
Module Leader:
Dr. Joanne Hee
January 2011
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 3
MODULE SPECIFICATION ............................................................................................. 4
Learning Outcomes ......................................................................................................... 4
Indicative Contents/ Areas of Study ............................................................................... 5
Teaching and Learning Strategy ..................................................................................... 5
Assessment ...................................................................................................................... 6
Resources ........................................................................................................................ 6
MODULE PLAN ................................................................................................................ 7
COURSE WORK................................................................................................................ 8
Assignment ..................................................................................................................... 8
Quality Indicators.......................................................................................................... 10
INSTRUCTIONS .............................................................................................................. 13
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Managing People Module!
In parallel, Managing People module should aim to develop a coherent set of personnel
and employment policies, which jointly reinforce the organization's strategies for
matching resources to business needs and improving performance. Overall, this module
helps to create conditions in which innovation, team working and total quality can
flourish and encourage willingness to operate flexibility in the interests of the 'adaptive
organization' and the pursuit of excellence.
Your centre facilitators will be providing 18 hours of face to face lectures and tutorials at
the centre and further supported with another 18 hours online learning facilitated by the
Module Leader. You will benefit from additional on-line learning resources including
web based course materials and on-line discussion forums. Additional discussion topics
relating to Managing People will be initiated by the Module Leader which will be
uploaded on the WEC Online Portal. You are expected to participate and engage in the
discussions wherein your view and opinions will be shared within the cohort of students
on the module. You will also have the opportunity to discuss the assignment question
with the module leader to clarify doubts.
Dr Joanne Hee
Module Leader
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MODULE SPECIFICATION
Module Title: MANAGING PEOPLE
No. of Credits: 15
Credit Level: 7
Mandatory
Pre-requisite None
Pre-requisite: None
Co-requisite: None
Module 1. To develop a critical awareness of current and emerging
Description practices in the managing of work organisations and
human resources
2. Enhance participants’ abilities to increase the
contribution of human resources to long-term corporate
success, whatever the specific nature of their managerial
role and the industry they are in.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the module, participants should be able to:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding that to engage successfully in processes
of organising and managing work, their thinking needs to go beyond such
dualisms as thinking and acting, structure and culture, strategy and
implementation, and see each of these as different facets of unified processes in
human and organisational life.
2. Analyse and evaluate the choices presented in approaches to employment
management practices and how these relate to the overall strategic way an
organisation handles its changing environment and the range of stakeholders
with which it deals.
3. Critically appraise current managerial practices to inform the way they can
contribute to the strategic direction of human resourcing, and develop
appropriate and relevant solutions to employment management issues in their
organisations.
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Indicative Contents/ Areas of Study
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Assessment
An individual piece of management report of about 3500 words that requires students to
critically appraise current Human Capital practices to inform the way they can contribute
to the strategic direction of human capital, and develop appropriate and relevant solutions
to employment management issues in their organisations or other organisations they are
familiar with.
Resources
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MODULE PLAN
Historical view of work, work today and Chapter 1 of WEC Study Material
Session 1 workers’ psychological contract
Notes
1. Module will be covered in 6 sessions of face – to – face lectures by the centre facilitator.
2. Each face – to – face lecture session will be of 3 hours duration.
3. Centres to ensure completion of face – to – face lecture sessions latest by week 10 of the cohort.
4. Additional facilitation can be arranged locally by the centre(s) on need to have basis.
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COURSE WORK
Assignment
Due Date: March 27, 2011
By 12.00 midnight (Singapore & Malaysia time)
Employees’ Development is viewed as a value added activity for the 21st century
organisations. For the developmental plan to be deemed ‘strategic’, organisations need to
shift the focus to a ‘learning’ approach. Discuss this proposition critically in the context
of an Employees’ Development plan supporting individual and organisational
effectiveness in an organisation of your choice.
1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. Background of the Organisation
4. Literature Review of the Employees Development and Learning concepts –
research the theoretical underpinnings, critiques and contemporary development.
5. Arguments for a Proposed Employees Development plan
6. Basis for its critical success factors
7. Conclusion
8. References: you are required to reference / research books and journals, apart
from online sites.
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Important Notes:
1. The OCTAL Portal Discussion Forum participation is critical for this paper. All students
are advised to actively participate in the OCTAL Discussion Forum to have a direct
discussion with the Module Leader on the assignment question.
2. Proper referencing is essential. Your grades will be adversely affected if there is no / poor
referencing. You are strongly advised to carefully read the University of Derby
Referencing Guide available at http://www.derby.ac.uk/library/study-skills/citing-and-
referencing and ensure proper in text referencing following the Harvard Referencing
Style. List of references in an alphabetical order must be presented at the end of your
assignment.
3. You are not allowed to use the general internet references e.g. www.google.com,
www.yahoo.com and Wikipedia etc. All references should be from the credible sources
e.g. books, newspapers, articles, journals, magazines etc.
4. Assignments are checked with the help of available anti plagiarism software. All students
are advised to carefully read the University of Derby Plagiarism Policy available at
http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/derbyuni?q=plagiarism&sa=Go&domains=der
by.ac.uk&sitesearch=derby.ac.uk
5. Please go through the 2010 / 11 UoD Rights, Responsibilities and Regulations (3 Rs)
available at http://www.derby.ac.uk/files/full_version_of_3rs.pdf for the assessment
regulation and other matters.
6. Please read the instructions given at the end of this module handbook.
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Quality Indicators
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Good (C-, C, C+)
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3. Display broad and in-depth research of the organisation in relation to Employees
Development plan as the result of in depth investigation.
4. Correct identification of the impact and challenges of the people management plan
in its design features and offering a persuasive view of how Employees
Development plan can be developed in the chosen organization.
5. Highly developed and well laid out arguments for a proposed Employees
Development plan in light of the organisational environment.
6. Comprehensively and accurately assessing the critical success factors of the
Employees Development plan, making reference to case examples to illustrate
your arguments.
7. Well constructed and crafted piece of work. A pleasure to read with logical and
superb progression of argument. The structure of the Employees Development plan
report should be well constructed with clear introduction and conclusion.
8. Evidence of a wide range of reading particularly referred journal articles along
with correct and consistent referencing following Harvard Referencing Style.
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INSTRUCTIONS
1. The assignment MUST be submitted on-line on or before the due date.
2. Assignments should be word processed.
3. The assignments shall contain 3500 words (+/- 10%), presented in text of font size 12
with 1.5 line spacing.
4. The cover page should be attached with the assignment and uploaded through OCTAL
(WEC Learning Portal) on-line. Please see the Guide to upload the assignments placed in
the assignment pack.
5. You must write your name (as per IC / Passport), Learning Centre, the Module Title and
page number (page x of y) in the header / footer of your assignment.
6. All newly registered and continuing students are required to submit Module Enrolment
Form to the Centre Manager / Rep / Admin by the last day of week 3 of each term.
7. The course work will not be accepted at the end of the term if student did not enrol for
the module by the given deadline.
8. Once you have enrolled for the module it is compulsory for you to submit the course
work on / before the given deadline.
9. The Extenuating Circumstances Form (ECF) along with the evidence must be submitted
10 days prior to the submission due date to the Centre Manager / Rep / Admin for onward
submission to WEC if you wish to apply for deferment / extension.
10. Work which is submitted after the designated deadline is deemed late.
11. If an approved ECF has been submitted by the original assignment deadline, and the
work is received before the extended deadline indicated on the ECF, the work will be
marked with no limitation of the grade available.
12. If the submitted work is late but within 7 days of the deadline, and there are no approved
extenuating circumstances, the work is assessed but the highest mark available is the
minimum pass grade D-. There is no entitlement to feedback although feedback may be
offered.
13. There is no entitlement to submit late after an agreed submission extension.
14. If the work is tendered without an approved ECF more than 7 days after the deadline, it is
not marked and an NS grade is recorded.
15. NS grade is recorded if neither the course work nor the ECF is submitted.
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