Princess Nourah Bint AbdulRahman University (PNU) College Of Business Administration Group Project

Princess Nourah Bint AbdulRahman University (PNU) College Of Business Administration

Group Project – Talent Management (HRM – 316)

Project Description:

The Group Project is based on Talent Management course with special reference to resourcing and talent management. The term project report for Talent Management is a group project work, which is required to be submitted in Week 12 (Date will be informed). Whereas presentations will be conducted during week 13 & 14. They should present all the points covered in the report during presentation

The Project Work:

Students (a group of 4-5 students) must select any one of the companies from the private sector (Saudi or Multinational). The group must study the how talent management is implemented in the company. The project must highlight a detailed process how the management of talent is practiced through the assessment and review of the respective company’s talent management models or practices and industry-specific policies. Once the report submitted, students have to present the full process of talent management of the chosen company in the form of a PowerPoint presentation in front of the class.

The Project consists of two Parts: Total 20 marks

Group Project report -15%

Defense Presentation- 5 %

Learning Objectives for the project:

Students will assess the key points of talent management practiced within the selected company.

Students will be in a position to understand the relevant human resource practices in the selected company with special reference to talent management strategist.

The students will be assessed on the following areas of the project:

Introduction of the selected company and its study of company’s hierarchy and talent management practices or model.

The talent management model or practice in the company

Role of human resources functions, resourcing activities of human resource objectives and other relevant knowledge that are relevant in resourcing and talent management

How company strategize in order to align their resourcing and talent management activities with the business strategies being pursued

How does the company develops the talent management strategy.

What and how company face with challenges in resourcing and talent management

7 .How the talent management practice could contribute towards organizational human resource outcomes and overall company performance

Guidelines:

A team can have up to 4-5 students.

The project report must be in the form of a written form as per guidelines with a minimum of 10-15 max pages or word limit (2500-4000 words) in English (Cover Page not include).

Student teams can collect information for the group project through:

Secondary research of data through published sources.

Primary sources: Students can contact the company officials directly and interview the relevant responsible executives.

Charts, graphs, model, or pictures can also be included in the project.

Students have to complete their Project with these Project Requirements:

Group & leaders

Topic (Project description tasks)

Group Project Report (Structure, formatting rules, reference)

Presentation

Groups & Leaders

Create a group of 4 to 5 students

Assign one of group members to be the leader

Give your group a name

Group participation form duly signed by all members should be attached in the report.

Topic:

Project Description / Content

Each group is required to submit a written report on Talent management process based on a company of their choice. The due is no later than week 12 of the course.

The following points should be addressed and highlighted in the case study report:

Part I. Introduction

This is to explain the purpose of the report and highlight the aspect and sub topic you want discuss etc

Write the background of the company briefly

o Nature of business, vision, mission, and business goals & objectives should be highlighted in addition to talent management you want to do in the project and write in the report

Part II.

Organizational Structure

Board of directors

Top management

HR department – Talent management (the focus) Part 111

The talent management model or practice in the company

Role of human resources functions, resourcing activities of human resource objectives and other relevant knowledge that are relevant in resourcing and talent management

How company strategize in order to align their resourcing and talent management activities with the business strategies being pursued

How company develops the talent management strategy

What and how company face with challenges in resourcing and talent management

How the talent management practice could contribute towards organizational human resource outcomes and overall company performance

Part 1V

Integrate relevant systems, activities, processes, human resource roles and relevant activities the model of talent management and resourcing in the company

Part V. Conclusion, Recommendation/ Suggestions

Note: a. Refer text book as reference

b. Research Papers based on talent management

c. data collected from the company chosen by you Part VIII. References

Part IX:Group Members participation form (format attached in BB) must be added with the complete details.

Group Project Report Structure:

Cover page –PNU logo, University name, project title, Course Name and Code, section, Student Name and ID, Instructor Name, Department, Date of Submission.

Table of content

Table of figures

Executive summary

Your Tasks (all points mentioned above in Project Description)

Rubrics should be attached in the report (1 rubric for project report, organization

and style and group member’s participation & Oral presentation rubrics as per number of members in the group.)

Group members participation form: Formatting Rules for the report:

Number of pages: 10-15 pages

Font: Times New Roman

Font size: 12 point

Margins: one inch (2.5 cm)

Spacing: one-and-a-half lines (1.5)

Justification: left

First Page: University logo and Name, the title, course name, course code, student name, student id, instructor’s name, department, the date

Header and footer: the title of the project, and page number bottom center

References:

Use the following style:

1. American Psychological Association (APA) Style,

Presentation:

All group members should present a part of the presentation. (Presentation evaluation is individual)

During presentation:

Professional appearance (clothes)

Language: English

Clear voice (not too high or too low / not very fast or very slow)

Eye contact with audience

Don’t read from the slides (you can use notes in your hand to only remind you of some extra points, but you should not be reading from them all the time)

Ability to answer questions (all group members should know all parts , so they can answer any question from any part)

Manage time (10-15) minutes divided equally within group members)

Use the right body language

All students have a coordination during presentation

Slides should be:

Clear

Organized content

Not crowded (no too much text in the slides, only brief points)

Text color contrasts with background color (so you can read it easily)

Figures/pictures are supporting the idea (if you have any pictures)

No excess use of “Slide Animation”

Cover all main points in the project

Logical sequence of information presentation

Use Power Point.

Submission (Project Report and Project Presentation):

Report to be submitted electronically (soft copy on BB) and Printed when they come for in campus lecture (hard copy)

Presentation to be submitted electronically (soft copy on BB)

Due Date

All Project Reports should be submitted in week 12. Each group must submit soft copy on Blackboard and also hard copy(during in campus lecture).

Project Presentations should be submitted online (on the Blackboard) after one week of report submission.

Late submissions will not be accepted. There will be a project presentation in week 13 and 14 based on the project report.

References and Citation

All references you use should be cited appropriately according to APA standards. Please visit https://www.library.cornell.edu/research/citation/apa for guidelines on citations. Take the time to visit and bookmark for your future reference the previous link for details on how to cite a variety of hardcopy and online sources.

Academic Integrity

No cheating or plagiarism will be tolerated. Any student that is found guilty of cheating or plagiarism will be turned over to respective authority for disciplinary proceedings in accordance with the university’s policies, rules and regulations. Marks shall be deducted for any acts of plagiarism.

Assignment 2 MGT101 (1st Term 2021-2022) Case Study Deadline: 20/11/2021 @ 23:59

Assignment 2 MGT101 (1st Term 2021-2022)

Case Study

Deadline: 20/11/2021 @ 23:59

Course Name: Principles of Management

Student’s Name:

Course Code: MGT101

Student’s ID Number:

Semester: 1st

CRN:

Academic Year: 1442/1443 H, 1st Term

For Instructor’s Use only

Instructor’s Name:

Students’ Grade: /5

Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low

Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY

This assignment is an individual assignment.

Due date for Assignment 2 is by the end of Week 11.(20/11/2020)

The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder.

Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.

Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.

Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.

Late submission will NOT be accepted.

Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.

All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).

Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

Assignment Purposes/Learning Outcomes:

After completion of Assignment-2 students will able to understand the

1. Examine management issues and practices in motivation; organizational culture, structure, and behavior; team dynamics; and communication.

2. Relate motivational theories to motivating and demotivating factors.
3. Know and discuss manager’s role in motivating employees.

Assignment-2

Case Study

In September 2018, Mohammed Salim joined KAAF Software Solutions (KAFF) as a Senior Programmer, with a handsome pay. Prior to this job, he worked successfully as an Assistant Programmer in Gant Computers (Gant). Salim felt that working for KAFF, there are better career prospects, as it was growing much faster than Gant, which was a relatively small company.

Although Salim had enjoyed working there (at Gant), he realized that to grow further in his field, he would have to join a bigger company, and preferable one that handled international projects. He was sure he would excel in his position at KAFF, just as he had done in his old job at Gant.

KAFF had international operations and there was more than a slim chance that he would be sent to USA or the UK on a project. Knowing that this would give him a lot of exposure, besides looking good on his resume, Salim was quite excited about his new job.

Salim joined Mrs. Zeenat’s five-member team at KAFF. He had met Mrs. Zeenat during the orientation sessions, and was looking forward to working under her. His team members seemed warm and friendly, and comfortable with their work. He introduced himself to the team members and got to know more about each of them.

Wanting to know more about his boss, he casually asked one of the team members, about Mrs Zeenat. He was told that Mrs. Zeenat does not interfere with our work. Salim was surprised to know this and thought that probably Mrs. Zeenat was leaving them alone to do their work without any guidance, in order to allow them to realize their full potential.

At Gant, Salim had worked under Abdulrahman and had looked up to him as a guide and mentor – always guiding, but never interfering. Abdulrahman had let Salim make his own mistakes and learn from them. He had always encouraged individual ideas, and let the team discover the flaws, if any, through discussion and experience. He rarely held an individual member of his team responsible if the team as a whole failed to deliver – for him the responsibility for any failure was collective. Salim remembered telling his colleagues at Gant that the ideal boss would be someone who did not interfere with his/her subordinate’s work. Salim wanted to believe that Mrs. Zeenat too was the non-interfering type. If that was the case, surely her non-interference would only help him to grow.

In his first week at work, Salim found the atmosphere at the office a bit dull. However, he was quite excited. His team had been assigned a new project and was facing a few glitches with the new software. He had thought about the problem till late in the night and had come up with several possible solutions. He could not wait to discuss them with his team and Mrs. Zeenat. He smiled to himself when he thought of how Mrs. Zeenat would react when he will tell her that he had come up with several possible solutions to the problem. He was sure she would be happy with his having put in so much effort into the project, right from day one.

He was daydreaming about all the praise that he was going to get when Mrs. Zeenat walked into the office. Salim waited for her to go into her cabin, and after five minutes, called her up, asking to see her. She asked him to come in after tem minutes. When he went in, she looked at him blankly and asked, “Yes?” Not sure whether she had recognized him, Salim introduced himself. She said, “Ok, but why did you want to meet me?” He started to tell her about the problems they were having with the software. But before he could even finish, she told him that she was busy with other things, and that she would send an email with the solution to all the members of the team by the end of the day, and that they could then implement it immediately. Salim was somewhat taken aback. However, ever the optimist, he thought that she had perhaps already discussed the matter with the team.

Salim came out of Mrs. Zeenat’s cabin and went straight to where his team members sat. He thought it would still be nice to bounce ideas off them and also to see what solutions others might come up with. He told them of all the solutions he had in mind. He waited for the others to come up with their suggestions but not one of them spoke up. He was surprised, and asked them point-blank why they were so disinterested.

Faisal, one of the team members, said, “What is the point in our discussing these things? Mrs. Zeenat is not going to have time to listen to us on discuss anything. She will just give us the solution she thinks is best, and we will just do what she tells us to do; why waste everyone’s time?”

Salim felt his heart sink. Was this the way things worked over here? However, he refused to lose heart and thought that maybe, he could change things a little. But as the days went by, Salim realized that Mrs. Zeenat was the complete opposite of his old boss.

While she was efficient at what she did and extremely intelligent, she had neither the time nor the inclination to groom her subordinates. Her solutions to problem were always correct, but she was not willing to discuss or debate the merits of any other ideas that her team might have. She did not hold the team down to their deadlines not did she ever interfere. In fact, she rarely said anything at all. If work did not get finished on time, she would just blame her team, and totally disassociate herself from them.

Time and again, Salim found himself thinking of Abdulrahman his old boss, and of how he had been such a positive influence. Mrs. Zeenat, on the other hand, even without actively doing anything, had managed to significantly lower his motivation levels.

Salim gradually began to lose interest in his work – it had become too mechanical for his taste. He didn’t really need to think; his boss had all the answers. He was learning nothing new, and he felt his career was going nowhere. As he became more and more discouraged, his performance suffered. From being someone with immense promise and potential Salim was now in danger of becoming just another mediocre techie.

Questions:

Q1. What, according to you, were the reasons for Salim’s disillusionment? Answer the question using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. (2.5 marks)

Q2. What should Salim do to resolve his situation? (1.25 marks)

Q3. What should a team leader do, to ensure high levels of motivation among his/her team members? (1.25 Marks)

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