Message :- This Assignment is related to HRM performance management. the Tutor should read the questions carefully and come up with an answer in a form of assignment and real scenarios or cases about the performance management. learning outcomes: the following will be fully or partially achieved. 1 Systematically decide and communicate strategic performance aims, objectives, priorities and targets. 3 Devise and sustain arguments for using appropriate performance management techniques, rewards and sanctions to improve performance. 4 Demonstrate the communication skills required when managing achievement and underachievement MY comments: 1- Please follow exactly (the instructions mentioned in the attachment) for the assignment. 2- Please make sure to priorities and link all information and theories around the Performance management subject for HRM. 3- The assignment should cover all topics related to the following: 2. Talent Management 3. increasing Organizational Agility and Productivity 4- The Assignment and its content should be within in a business-style report format. 5- This assignment should be supported with some theories and / or statistics if possible. 6- You can reference and mention clearly the reference details (Bibliography references). 7- Ensure quality and prevent any typo or copy and paste due to the fact that the entire assignment will be evaluated using Turin-tin system. 8- Please provide Turin-tin report and make sure that the similarity is lower than 5%. 9- A deadline is 15th May 2017. And appreciate if I can get it before the deadline. 10- Total assignment words should be 3000 Faculty of Business and Law Department of Marketing and Management Coursework TWO Word count: 3000 (excluding references and bibliography) Submission Deadline: 15 th May 2017 Essay Format Learning outcomes – the following will be fully or partially achieved. 1 Systematically decide and communicate strategic performance aims, objectives, priorities and targets. 3 Devise and sustain arguments for using appropriate performance management techniques, rewards and sanctions to improve performance. 4 Demonstrate the communication skills required when managing achievement and underachievement. TASK A recent CIPD survey, Outlook: Views of the profession, Winter 2016-17 asked HR professionals about their organisation’s priorities, both now and in three years’ time, and in particular how aligned they considered their HR activities were in achieving them. The top three priorities identified were: 1. Talent Management 2. Increasing Organisational agility and productivity the above priorities and (1) Critically evaluate the extent to which your organisation’s performance management system (PMS) contributes their achievement. (60% weighting) (2) Identify and justify recommendations to improve greater alignment between the two selected business priorities and the performance management system. (40% weighting) GUIDELINES Introduction  The assignment is arranged in two parts; part one is weighted at 60% and part two weighted at 40%. With reference to the key priorities identified in the above survey, examine the extent 2 to which your organisation’s performance management system (PMS) contributes to each of the above. For example cost management maybe associated with the PMS being used to determine pay for performance increases, there are also costs involved time taken to carry out performance reviews, training provision, etc. Talent management is sometimes seen as an integral aspect of PMS where managers identify employee potential, development needs and manage same. Agility and productivity are concerned with having a workforce that can respond quickly and effectively to change whilst also improving productivity. The PMS can contribute to this priority by identification of key skills and competencies, encouraging greater motivation, and provision of learning and development initiatives.  Having carried out this initial exercise, the selected priorities for evaluation. It is important that the foregoing evaluation is carried out within the context of your organisation’s PMS and its business objectives, the PMS proces, and follow-up action. The second part of the assignment focuses on the practical actions that the organization can take to create greater alignment between their PMS and business priorities.  To assist you in this assignment it is important that you refer to a number of appropriate sources (minimum of 10 different sources) to inform your evaluation. Journal Articles/Surveys (see earlier articles recommendations for Assignment One as well) 1. Biron, M. Farndae, E. & Paauwe, J. (2011) Performance management effectiveness: lessons from world leading firms, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 22, No. 6, March 2011, 1294-1311 2. Cappelli, P. & Tavis, A. (2016) The Performance Management Revolution¸ Harvard Business Review, October 2016 3. Employee Outlook: Focus on Managers, CIPD, Winter 2014/15 4. Haines III, V. Y. and t-Onge, S. (2012) Performance management effectiveness: practices or context?, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 5. HR Outlook, CIPD, Winter 2016/17 Vol. 23, No. 6, March 2012, 1158-1175 Assignment Structure The assessment criteria provide an outline of the structure you should adopt, i.e. Introduction – in this section you identify the key elements of your assignment. Review of academic literature – in this part of your assignment you will be expected to define the objectives of PMS and explore the relationship between the business priorities identified earlier and PMS. Furthermore, there will discussion around the role of HRM in identifying particular initiatives that facilitate the PMS’s contribution towards business objectives and priorities. Analysis and discussion – here you have the opportunity, in the light of the literature review, to provide a discussion focusing on the PMS and priorities.. Conclusions and recommendations – enable you to draw together the key conclusions derived from the preceding sections to inform your recommendations. 3 Assessment criteria: Understanding and justification of the relevant people issue 10% A review of appropriate academic literature 30% Analysis and discussion 35% Conclusions and recommendations 15% Presentation & referencing 10% Please note: 1. All work submitted after the submission deadline without an approved valid reason (see below) will be given a mark of zero. (This is not the same as a non-submission, as a late submission counts as an attempt and a mark of zero may allow you to resit the coursework). 2. Short deferrals (extensions) of up to three calendar weeks can only be given for genuine “force majeure” and medical reasons, not for bad planning of your time. Please note that theft, loss, or failure to keep a backup file, are not valid reasons. The short deferral must be applied for on or before the submission date. You can apply for a short deferral by submitting a Coursework Deferral Application Form. Students MUST keep a copy and/or an electronic file of their assignment. Please also submit an electronic copy of your assignment via Turnitin. The electronic version of your assignment may be used to enable checks to be made using anti-plagiarism software and approved plagiarism checking websites. Any penalties for not complying with word limits will be in accordance with University and Faculty Policy. Return of Marked Work: Marked work will be returned to you. You can expect to have marked work returned to you by 4 weeks after the submission. Plagiarism Warning: Assignments should not be copied in part or in whole from any other source, except for any marked up quotations, that clearly distinguish what has been quoted from your own work. All references used must be given, and the specific page number used should also be given for any direct quotations, which should be in inverted commas. Students