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MGT2000 Staffing Remuneration

• Lecture 7 Monday, 30 April 2007
• Topic
• Assignment
• Critical Writing
• Researching
• Referencing

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Section 1The Essay TopicandWriting Critically
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Assignment Part A B both due

• Monday, 14 May (in two weeks time)
• On campus students place your assignment in the
  slot at the
• Faculty of Business reception desk
• 4th floor
• L Block
• before 5 pm.
• Electronic submission is NOT available

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Assignment Part BTask 1 Job description/person
specificationTask 2 Job Advertisement

• Worth a total of 10
• Marking Criteria for these items can be found on
  page 31 of the Introductory Book

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Part A the essayMarking Criteria Sheet

• On page 15 of the Introductory Book
• Theory content Application of Case 45 marks
• Research and Referencing 25 marks
• Originality 10 marks
• Structure Written Expression 15 marks
• Appearance 5 marks
• -----------
• Total marks 100 marks
• Weight 30

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Part A - The Essay Topic

• Within the range of 1800 to 2,200 words,
• Discuss how the various people in the designer
  restaurant organisation can contribute to its
  human resource planning efforts. Include in this
  discussion the challenges and advantages the
  organisation faces with its human resource
  planning.
• Finally, critically discuss whether a
  compensation strategy would benefit the designer
  restaurant in achieving its strategic direction.

Question 1
What does this mean?
Question 2
What does this mean?
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Question 1What it means to discuss

• To consider and offer some interpretation of a
  concept
• (interpret means to make clear the meaning of
  something and its implications)
• To identify arguments for and against an issue..
• Not to be confused with describe or define
• To present a detailed account of a concept
• To use definitions to identify a concept

Marshall, L. Rowland, F. 1993, 2nd edn., Guide
to Learning Independently, Longman Cheshire,
Milton, Queensland. Peters, P. 1985, Strategies
for Student Writers, Wiley and Sons, Melbourne.
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Therefore, where Question 1 asks you to
discuss, consider

• What is the good bad of involving various
  people in the designer restaurant organisation in
  its human resource planning efforts.
• ALTERNATIVELY .
• What are the implications of involving various
  people in the designer restaurant organisation in
  its human resource planning efforts.
• Include in this discussion the challenges and
  advantages the organisation faces with its human
  resource planning.

The HR theory should guide you as to what
various people you should consider
This aspect provides further items to contribute
to your discussion
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Question 2What is critical discussion?

• You make a judgement on the authors point of
  view or claim
• To do this you need to determine
• whether the premise or base of
• the authors view or claim is logical
• /sound, or on the other hand, faulty.
• You need to support your position to either
  accept or reject the authors claim with
  evidence.
• Writing up your position on the authors
  statement and supplying evidence to support your
  opinion forms the content of this essay.

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Determine whether you are going to accept or
reject the claim in the essay topic.

• If you accept.
• A compensation strategy would benefit the
  designer restaurant in achieving its strategic
  direction.

Develop your claim, using theory as your
premise You need to support your opinion by
referring to strategic compensation theory that
suggests a compensation strategy supports the
success of a corporate strategy (via a strategic
HR plan).
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Determine whether you are going to accept or
reject the claim in the essay topic.

• If you reject
• A compensation strategy does not benefit the
  designer restaurant in achieving its strategic
  direction.

Develop your claim, using theory as your
premise You need to support your opinion by
referring to HR planning theory that does not
identify a compensation strategy as a component
of its success.
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Determine whether you are going to accept or
reject the claim in the essay topic.

• Consider .
• Is there a black and white answer
• Accept Reject Alternative?

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So . what evidence can I use to accept or reject
the statement?

• Information from the Designer Restaurant Case
  study
• PLUS Any relevant HR theory
• Relevant information from your textbook or
  selected readings
• Relevant information from your further research
  at the library
• Do not use your personal experience as evidence.

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What is the difference between descriptive
writing and critical writing?

• To illustrate this point

This morning was stressful! I overslept.
Because of this I didnt get to finish the cup
of tea I was drinking whilst I frantically
packed lunch boxes for my two sons. When I
thought I had finished, my older son reminded me
that I had to pack extra for his afternoon tea
because he was going to soccer practice after
school. So, back to the pantry I went in search
of extra lunch box goodies. This was very
inconvenient, because I need extra time to get
myself ready on Mondays! Monday is my lecture
day and I want to look very professional for my
students! Today I had to get dressed
at lightening speed.
Write a sentence (or two) about 3 things you
did when you got out of bed this morning
What is your judgment about the type of morning
you experienced based on those 3 things
This morning I got up and drank a ½ cup of tea,
packed my sons school lunches and got dressed
for work.
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What is the difference between descriptive
writing and critical writing?
If you had to critique what I wrote, you would
need to argue whether or not I have a logical
premise to support my claim?
This is my claim

• This morning was stressful!
• I overslept. Because of this I didnt get to
  finish the
• cup of tea I was drinking whilst I frantically
  packed
• lunch boxes for my two sons. When I thought I
• had finished, my older son reminded me that I had
  to
• pack extra for his afternoon tea because he was
  going
• to soccer practice after school. So, back to the
• pantry I went in search of extra lunch
• box goodies. This was very inconvenient,
• because I need extra time to get myself ready on
• Mondays! Monday is my lecture day
• and I want to look very professional
• for my students! Today I had to get dressed at
• lightening speed.

The remainder establishes the premise (or
grounds) to my claim
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What is the difference between descriptive
writing and critical writing?
Referring back to the descriptive writing about
my morning
NOTICE There is no Claim / Opinion or Judgements
NOTICE There are no premises (or grounds) being
developed that could support a claim

• This morning I got
• up and drank a ½
• cup of tea, packed
• my sons school
• lunches and got
• dressed for work.

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What is the difference between descriptive
writing and critical writing?
NOTICE But still these points do not explain how
I came to making this claim
NOTICE This time I made a claim

• This morning was
• stressful!
• I got up and drank
• ½ cup of tea,
• packed my sons
• school lunches
• and got dressed
• for work.

Whats missing? The articulated LINKS between
the mornings activities and how they
influenced the way the morning went for me.
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What is the difference between descriptive
writing and critical writing?
Notice it didnt argue for or against the claim.
It simply defined recruitment and the internet
and outlined sources of advertising

• THE CLAIM
• Recruitment is best done via the internet.
• DESCRIPTIVE RESPONSE
• Recruitment is the process that employers use to
  attract people to apply for a job. People find
  out about job vacancies through job
  advertisements that employers place in the
  newspaper and on the internet. The internet
  provides exposure to millions of people worldwide
  to job vacancies.

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What is the difference between descriptive
writing and critical writing?

• THE CLAIM
• Recruitment is best done via the internet.
• CRITICAL RESPONSE
• Recruitment is best done via the internet because
  the internet is world wide, is fast and reduces
  the need for staff to deal directly with
  applicants (Smythe 2005). Other methods do not
  prove to be a better option. The internet far
  out ways the negatives of newspaper advertising
  which is very expense and has time delays (Howe
  2004). Radio advertising cannot outdo the
  internet because the radio is not suited to
  promoting the information rich material found in
  job advertisements (Howe 2004 Williams 2001).
  So, it is reasonable to suggest that the internet
  provides the best avenue for recruitment.

Argues in favour of the claim on the premise of
its benefits over the other methods (newspaper
and radio)
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A brief review of the case study

• The Designer Restaurant

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Some background case study points
Restaurant Owners
Creative innovative
Business minded
Brother
Sister
Restaurant 1 Opened 1994 Grand 1920s
style Caters for 180 diners 200 Full time
staff 30-50 part time staff
Restaurant 2 Opened 1995 Modern/minimalist
style Caters for 150 diners 60 full time staff lt
10 part time staff
Restaurant 3 Opened 1996 Multi-level converted
mill Caters for 260 diners Bar for up to 200
persons 80 full time staff 3 part time staff
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Some background case study points

• Future plans

Restaurant 4 In London
Restaurant 5 Further south
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Some background case study points
Restaurant Owners
Brother
Sister
Actively involved in strategic business planning
with the owners
Recently Appointed HR manager
Restaurant 1 Unit Manager
Restaurant 2 Unit Manager
Restaurant 3 Unit Manager
Training and Development Manager
Personnel Officer
Personnel Training Administrator
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Some background case study points
The HR Team
Restaurant 1 Unit Manager
Recently Appointed HR manager
Restaurant 2 Unit Manager
Policies Procedures
Personnel Officer
Training and Development Manager
Restaurant 3 Unit Manager
Personnel Training Administrator
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Key Areas
EXPLAINING HOW THESE TOPICS RELATE TO EACH OTHER
Relating this theory to the Designer
Restaurant Case where possible

• Corporate strategy
• Internal External Environment
• Human resource planning
• Job analysis
• Compensation
• PLUS

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Section 2Research for the Essay
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The essay requires that you

• (p. 11 of Introductory Book)
• Find and cite within your essay a minimum of six
  (6) sources for this assignment.
• (a) these sources must be journal articles, text
  book or other credible sources.
• (b) private web pages such as pages of study
  notes from other university courses are not
  acceptable. Websites must be of a scholarly and
  credible nature
• (c) These sources must be in addition to the text
  and selected readings.
• (d) You can use the articles supplied between
  pages 19-26 of the introductory book (there are
  five), and these WILL count towards your six
  articles.

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Using Websites for academic work

• Must be of a scholarly or credible nature that
  clearly displays the sponsoring organisation, and
  if available, the author of the article
• Credible Not Credible
• AHRI Lectures/Notes on web
• NASA Moonlanding Conspiracy
• Disneyland Disney linkage sites
• What about the scholarly nature of these
  websites? Scholarly articles are generally found
  in a library.

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Using the librarys electronic databases to find
scholarly articles

• Recommend an electronic database called
  EBSCOHost.
• There are others that I use regularly such as
  Taylor and Francis, Emerald and Factiva
• Access is via the USQ website. You will need
  your student sign on and password to access them.

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My research experience step 1

• Search term
• growth strategy and human resource planning
• Results
• 4 hits
• 2 articles
• - Galpin 1998
• - Balkin 1988

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My research experience step 2

• Search Term
• growth strategy
• Results
• 9,637 hits

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My research experience step 3

• Search term
• growth strategy and job analysis
• Results
• no hits

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My research experience step 4

• Search term
• corporate strategy and job analysis
• Results
• No hits again

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My research experience step 5

• Search Term
• corporate strategy and human resource planning
• Results
• 5 hits
• 2 articles
• - Swiercz, 1992
• - Brush, 2005 (excited because of its date)
• 1 abstract
• - Schuler and MacMillan
• found a new term human capital planning

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My research experience

• Great Ive got 5 articles!
• - but one is an abstract
• - they may not be useable

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My research experience step 6

• Search term
• corporate strategy and compensation
• Results
• 420 hits

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My research experience step 7

• Refined Search using EBSCO suggestion
• business planning
• Results
• 17 hits
• but no overly appealing articles

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My research experience step 8

• What about the counter argument?
• Search term
• critique and human resource management
• Result
• 65 hits
• 4 articles
• - Singh 2005
• - Guest 2002
• - Wright Brewster 2003
• - Francis 2002

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My research experience step 9

• Search term
• critique and human resource planning
• Results
• 2 hits
• 1 article
• - Niehaus Swiercz 1996

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My research experience some statistics

• Started search at 3.45 pm and finished at 5 pm
  (approx 1¼ hours)
• Downloaded 10 items (9 articles 1 abstract)
• Total download of 11,390 KB
• The published dates ranged from 1984 (22 years
  old) to 2005.
• In the (2006) essay I ended up using
• Schuler and MacMillan 1984
• Niehaus 1996 (the last article I found)
• Balkin 1998 (found within the first couple of
  minutes)
• Guest 2002
• Wright 2003
• I had 11 entries in the List of References in the
  essay
• Total essay research and writing time was around
  13-14 hours

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My 2007 experience using the Emerald Management
Extra database

• START TIME 4.15 PM FINISH 5.30 PM
• human resource planning (8,544 articles)
• strategic human resource planning (6,231
  articles)
• Inserted a limiter 2000-2007 (and got 5
  articles)
• Boswell Boudreau (2001)
• strategic human resource planning human
  resource roles (2,697 articles)
• Ashton (1996)
• Massey (1994)
• Idris Eldridge (1998)
• Thornhill Saunders (1998)
• human resource planning restaurant with a
  limiter 1992-2007 (352 articles)
• Pratten OLeary (2007)
• strategic compensation with a limiter 2000-
  2007 (131 articles)
• Boyd Salamin (2001)

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• Section 3
• Referencing

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Why do we reference?

• So the reader can locate the source of your
  information
• To acknowledge of work of someone else
• To provide scholarly support for your opinion or
  idea

Plagiarism occurs when you use someone else's
work or ideas without acknowledging that you have
used them. This includes using another student's
material.
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USQ Penalties for
plagiarism or collusion

• Formal warning
• Reduction of up to 20 of marks available for
  piece of assessment (1st offence) or
• Student be failed in piece of assessment (1st
  offence)
• Student be awarded a grade of Fail in course (2nd
  offence)
• Student be withdrawn from course with academic
  penalty (2nd offence)
• Student be excluded from course or program for
  specified period of time 1-3 years (3rd 4th
  offence)

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When to include an in text reference

• More easily addressed by considering what NOT TO
  reference
• Do not reference
• Introductory type sentences in which you present
  a stance, opinion or claim that is to be
  immediately explored (in the next sentence) with
  scholarly references.
• Sentences where you are making connections
  between pieces of theory or connecting the theory
  to the case study.
• When making concluding statements or deductions
  after presenting pieces of referenced writing.
• Information of a general nature such as facts
  which are common knowledge for example historical
  dates. BUT, you MUST reference statistics eg
  population

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Access to Referencing Guidelines

• You can find referencing guides on the USQ
  library website This address will take you
  straight to it
• http//www.usq.edu.au/library/help/ehelp/ref_guide
  s/default.htm
• Otherwise, you get to them via the USQ website
  http//www.usq.edu.au/

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How to reference the Study Book

• In the List of References
• MGT2000 Staffing and Remuneration study book
  2007, University of Southern Queensland,
  Toowoomba.

Note There is no author
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How to reference the Study Book

• In text paraphrase
• The employment relationship consists of a number
  of components, the three main components being
  economic, legal and psychological (USQ 2007).
• According to USQ (2007) the employment
  relationship consists of a number of components,
  the three main

no page number required when paraphrasing a major
theme.
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How to reference the Study Book
The dots indicate that you are quoting only part
of the sentence

• In text direct quote
• According to USQ (2007 p. 1.3) when any person
  is employed by an organisation, an employment
  relationship comes into being.
• In its most basic form, when any person is
  employed by an organisation, an employment
  relationship comes into being (USQ 2007 p. 1.3).

Direct quotes require a page number!
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How to reference the Study Book back to the
Reference List

• Abbreviations such as USQ may be used in textual
  references.  The abbreviation should then be used
  for all in-text citations of that body and the
  reference list should provide a cross-reference
  by listing the full terminology.

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How to reference a reading from the selected
readings
(1) the original article

• In the List of references
• Nankervis, A, Compton, R, Baird, M 2002,
  Human resource planning, in Strategic Human
  resource Management, 4th edn, Nelson/Thomson
  Learning, Melbourne, in USQ (ed.), MGT 2000
  Staffing and Remuneration selected readings 1,
  2007, University of Southern Queensland,
  Toowoomba, Reading 2.1, pp. 78-85.

(2) The book of readings
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How to reference a reading from the selected
readings

• In Text
• Nankervis, Compton Baird (2002 p. 80 in USQ
  2006) state that HRP systematically forecasts an
  organisations future demand for, and supply of,
  employees.

The in text citation acknowledges the original
source of the material
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How to reference the case study

• You do not need to
• provide any intext referencing when you refer to
  the Designer Restaurant case study.
• You do not need to include the introductory book
  (the source of the case study) in your list of
  references.

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How to reference lecture notes/slides

• Its simple
• Dont use them in your formal academic essays as
  an expert source.
• Lecture slides are simply a transferral of
  information (some of it based on the lecturers
  experiences) on the course objectives.

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• Good luck with your assignments
• Thanks for your attention.
• No lecture next Monday due to Labour Day holiday
• NEXT LECTURE
• Monday, 14 May on
• Selection and Induction