Case Study Scenario 1

Wizard Gadgets is a small-medium size organization specializing in selling stationary and educational books and tools. The employees in the organization are mostly Sales and marketing representatives, Administrative staff and Finance staff. There are 50 employees working in Wizard Gadgets. currently. You have been working Wizard Gadgets as a Senior Executive in the Human Resource (HR) Department for 2.5 years. Your immediate superior, the HR Manager, Aileen Ng is 56 years old this year, and she is from the Baby Boomers generation.

Throughout the 2.5 years, you observe there are a lot of HR matters that you would like to suggest for changes. However, as you were new at that time, you did not take any actions but continue to observe in order to collect more information to justify your recommendations later. For example, your superior, Aileen still insist of advertising in local newspapers only when doing recruitment exercise. As a result, most of the recruitment exercises could not attract fresh graduates or young potential candidates. She also displays a not-really friendly attitude while communicating with the young generation, especially the Generation Y & Z. To make the matter worse, Melinda disallows the young generation to seek for clarifications on certain HR matters.

Besides, while you are checking the personal files of the employees, you discovered that not all the employees have the Job Description (JD) and Job Specification (JS) filed accordingly. To verify, you spoke to some of the employees to confirm your observation. Almost 70% of the employees feedback that they have not seen them

own JD or JS before. As such, you figure that perhaps it is time to conduct a Job Analysis

Question 1

a) You are required to discuss FIVE (5) trends that affected the practice of Human Resource Management (HRM) throughout the years. Justify your discussion with valid examples applicable in the case. Your answer should not be more than 700 words (15 marks)

b) You are required to discuss FIVE (5) nature of Job Analysis factors that should be considered when designing a job. Provide suitable examples in your discussion which are applicable in the case mentioned above. Your answer should not be more than 500 words (10 marks)

Case Study Scenario 2

Samsung is a Mobile Technology Company. Recently there was a new product release on pets tracking system. This is a new market business for Samsung.

As the HR Manager for this company you now are required to do proper planning on recruitment as new employees joining the company should have the skills and knowledge of both mobile products as well as pets.

You had a meeting with the top management today and some important factors were discussed. You than had a meeting with your HR Team to plan for next years goals and strategies. From the discussion you have clearly briefed your team on what are the tasks they need to do to start planning for next year.

You have divided your team to handle two major tasks which is next years personnel planning as well as recruiting strategies that the company should revise due to the change in organizations goals and objective

Question 2

a) You are required to analyse FIVE (5) factors of personnel planning to decide on next years planning for Samsung. Your answers should be justified with explanation and real life examples to support. Your answer should not be more than 500 words (10 marks)

b) In addition, you are also required to discuss THREE (3) factors of forecasting supply for outside candidates and TWO (2) factors of forecasting supply for inside candidates and in your opinion which is most suitable to be implemented for Samsung. Your answer should not be more than 700 words (15 marks)