Essay: The essay assignment develops the research, analysis and writing skills you gained from completing the Journal Article Review assignment by applying them to writing an academic essay. The purpose of this assessment task is to develop and assess your knowledge about a key managerial issue. You are expected to cite at least ten (10) academic journal articles in your essay to demonstrate the range of sources from which you derived your knowledge. The assessment will require students to read the case and answer the question below. The case: People Strategy at Barsetshire County Council You are the Director of HR at Barsetshire County Council and after extensive discussions with your Chief Executive, members of the Council’s Cabinet, other interested parties and your HR colleagues, you drafted a statement for the Chief Executive to issue about the proposed People Strategy. As amended slightly by the Chief Executive, this is set out below. The People Strategy statement We see the People Strategy as central to the delivery of effective and improving services. We also accept the need for fundamental changes to the way we work and how we work together and with others. We need to change the organization’s culture, the way we do things round here. This will require not only changing the way we work but also our behaviours and attitudes. We believe we must become an organization that attracts, supports, enables and retains people who are talented, risk taking, innovative and creative. To do this we must break away from our fairly traditional people management practices of the past and become a sharper, more flexible and resilient organization. We know the broad challenges for us over the next five years are going to be: Increasing demands on services through growing customer expectations. Changing roles of the County Council arising from the Local Government White Paper and subsequent Local Government Act. Working more effectively with other public services. Delivering services through a range of public and private sector organizations. Resources will get tighter and we will have to do more with less. Our discussions have established that our organizational culture reflects the following principal features: While we have made some progress on working together across directorates and professional areas, we still work predominantly within professional constraints and to defined job descriptions. We often fall back on professional job demarcation and still rely on detailed job descriptions. We have competent operational middle managers but many have yet to acquire leadership skills. Our people still rely on their managers for training and development opportunities rather than seek them for themselves. We have a modern salary progression scheme which allows employees to be rewarded for exceptional performance and which is a step in the right direction, but pay remains our main method of motivating people. We remain cautious about tackling under-performance. Communication between the Council and its staff is still very traditional with messages and information coming from the top down. We believe that these current ways of working do not encourage the behaviours and approaches we need to change the way we work and often form barriers to innovation, creativity and flexibility. The task: The statement by the Chief Executive has been discussed thoroughly and she has now asked you as Director of HR to draft a position paper which briefly describes the approach you recommend to developing a People Strategy as a basis for further discussion. Prepare this paper in an essay format.
Subject Name: Human resource management
Level: Undergraduate
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