Unit 4 Human Resources Management Assignment

Introduction

This Unit 4 Human Resources Management Assignment is a study about the importance of human resource management and personnel management and explains difference between the traditional and modern approach of work force management. A company works for achieving its goals and objectives by increasing the performance of the employees. Job evaluation and motivation by rewarding system helps to increase the engagement of employees in the company.There is a detailed study of the role of human resource planning process in the effective human resource management.Some companies of UK are taken as examples like Amway, The Body Shop International and case study of Virgin Media. A comparative study is done of these companies for the applicability of  human resources management and process of termination of employment.

Task 1

1.1 Differentiate betweenpersonnel management and human resource management giving examples in two suitable organizations.

Personnel management can be defined as approach to manage employees and maintain the workforce satisfied. This approach concentrates with the relationship of the employees with organization. This relationship can be positive or negative but personnel management makes an effort to keep the positive relationship of employees with the growth of organization. Personnel management includes all the activities which are related to employee retention like organizing, integrating and compensating the work force. Basically the approach is a traditional approach which is a general management of entire activities of work force in organization, whereas Human Resource Management is a modern approach to employee management and managements of their capabilities. Human resource management is an approach which is work for the optimum utilization of human resources. In human resource management an overall development is done in the direction of achieving the goals and objectives of organization. in personnel management job design is executed according to the distribution of work but in case of human resource management the job is designed in team work and tasks where a team and a group is constructed to do a particular task (Tran, H. 2015).

Human resource management is adopted in the human resource in FMCG Company of UK Body shop international. The company is investing in the activities of human resource for expanding the human resources of the company and overall development of man power. Activities of personnel management are covered in the human resource management as in it is wide approach. The company’s staff management, organization, integration, compensation and development are the activities covered in the process of human resource management(Tran, H. 2015). The leading FMCG Company Amway has adopted the approach of personnel management. The company recruits selects and then trains the entrepreneurial managers. By personnel management approach an overall development is created of employees who give them direction to meet their personal requirements in the company asemployee. Human resource management helps to increase the involvement of employees in organization and help to achieve optimum utilization of workforce. These approaches are used to motivate the employees in the company (Tran, H. 2015).

1.2. Assess how human resource management functions help your chosen organization in achieving its purpose.

The main purpose of human resource management is to manage the human resource in a manner that the best can be abstracted from them. In present business scenario employees are not just an input for the company they plays important role in the success of the organization. In an organization following activities are covered in the process of human resource management (Parry, & Tyson 2011).

1. Planning: Planning of human resource is the initial function of human resource management in any organization. Planning is defined as making an estimation of the number of employees and staff required in organization.  Required quality and standards are defined which will be the basis for the recruitment. In Amway the planning for resources is very important for the management of all the activities.As the company is one of the biggest FMCG Companies in the world, and have its business around the world so it is necessary to have sufficient workforce.
2. Staffing: Staffing includes recruitment process and selection of people for achieving the goals and objectives of organization.Every company has its requirements for the selection of employees. Predefined objectives and requirements works as the benchmarks for selection of human resource. Amway have staffing policy in which the employees are selected according to the methods and techniques within the different qualified applicants. Job designing is also done in the process of human resource management as in work and tasks are defined according to the ability of the human resources (Parry, & Tyson 2011).
3. Orientation and trainings: Orientation is a period which works as a helpline for the new appointed employees. In this period employee adjust himself in the working environment of the company and helps to know about the company’s working strategies. Amway provides proper orientation programs to its employees and entrepreneurial managers in which presentation about the company and its working culture is shown to them. Trainings and development programs are executed to increase the quality of employee’s performance.
4. Performance appraisal and compensation: Performance appraisal is a technique which helps to monitor and control performance of employees. Performance appraisal depends upon the feedbacks and reviews of the supervisors and managers.Incentives, bonuses, promotions are includes in the techniques of performance appraisal. Compensation is the value of performance of employee and is defined as a major cost in organization. Amway has a framework for the distribution of compensations and policies for performance appraisal (Parry, & Tyson 2011).

1.3. Evaluate the role and responsibilities of line managers in your organization or familiar organization and how it supports human resource management functions.

Line manager: In organizations there are levels in structure and hierarchy is also there. Line managers are the authorities which are have responsibility to manage activities of employees. In this type of management communication is from top to down level and feedbacks are down to top level.Line manager helps to proper execution of human resource management(Nankervis, A.R., et. al 2013).

Roles and responsibilities of line manager-

• Day to day activities is managed by line managers of employees which help to monitor employee’s performance.  Amway have a quality of line manager which manages employee’s activity.
• Line manager provides his expertise information if required to employee. In Amway the line managers are responsible to guide its employees by their expertise knowledge.
• In Amway the line managers are liable for the allocation of tasks to team of employees or individual.
• He is the responsible person for controlling the performance of company’s employees. The line manager of company evaluates the performance of employees on a regular basis and avoids unethical activities (Nankervis, A.R., et. al 2013).

1.4. Analyze how legal and regulatory framework impact on human resource management.

Human resource management is a methodology for the overall development of human resources in organization.In the process of human resource management legal and regulatory framework works as safe wards for the employees against any kind of misconducts (Bratton, J. 2012). Following are the acts and regulations which make impact on the human resource management-

• Sex discrimination Act 1995/97– The act was established to protect the employees at work place by the discrimination on the basis of gender.
• Equal pay Act 1970– according to this act there should be no discrimination for compensation on the basis of gender, religion,cast etc.
• Employment rights Act 1996– The employment rights Act is incorporated to protect rights of the employees in the work place.
• National minimum wages Act 1998– The national minimum wages act provides minimum wages to every employee for per hour work which is decided in the act and categorized (Bratton, J. 2012).

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Unit 4 Human Resources Management Assignment

Unit 27 Network Operating Systems

Unit 27 Network Operating Systems

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Unit 27 Network Operating Systems

Assignment Brief

BTEC Level 4-5 HNC/HND Diploma

	To be filled by the Student
	Full Name of the Student	:
	Edexcel No	:		IDM Registration No:	Batch No:
	HND Qualification	: Higher National Diploma in Computing and Software Development
	Unit Code & Title	: 27 Network Operating Systems
	Assessment Title & No’s	: XYZ Company
	Assessor Name	: Mr. Disnaka Punchihewa

Learning outcomes and grading opportunities: Pass Criteria

LO 01: Understand network operating systems principles

Learning Outcomes

LO1.1LO1.2LO1.3

LO 02: Be able to plan the implementation of network operating systems

Learning Outcomes

LO2.1

LO2.2

LO 03: Be able to implement network operating systems

Learning Outcomes

LO3.1

LO3.2

LO3.3

LO 04: Be able to manage network operating systems

Learning Outcomes

LO4.1

LO4.2

LO4.3

Merit and Distinction Criteria

M1.3

M2.3

M3.3

D1.1

D2.3

D3.3

Assignment Issued Date: 06th March 2017

Completion Date: 25th May 2017

Date of Assignment Submission:

Assessor Comment 

Internal Verifier Comment

General Guidelines for Assignment

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4. You must take responsibility for managing your own time effectively.

5. If you are unable to hand in your assignment on time and have valid reasons such as illness, you may apply (in writing) for an extension.

6. Failure to achieve at least a PASS grade will result in a REFERRAL grade being given.

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9. If you are caught plagiarizing you could have your grade reduced to A REFERRAL or at worst you could be excluded from the course.

I hereby, declare that I know what plagiarism entails, namely to use another’s work and to present it as my own without attributing the sources in the correct way. I further understand what it means to copy another’s work.

1. I know that plagiarism is a punishable offence because it constitutes theft.

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Student’s Signature: ……………………………                                                                    Date:.………………

Criteria

Criteria Evidence

Possible

Feedback

Reference

Evidence

P28.1.1

Evaluate types of NOS and NOS

Task 1.1

services

P28.1.2

Discuss the benefit of disaster

Task 1.2

recovery and NOS security

P28.1.3

Critically compare a selection of

Task 1.3

current NOS’s in use

Plan the implementation of a NOS

P28.2.1

for a required service to meet a

Task 2.1

given specification

P28.2.2

Evaluate

the plan and analyze

Task 2.2

user feedback

P28.3.1

Implement a NOS service based

Task 3.1

on a prepared plan

P28.3.2

Test  the

NOS  to  meet  user

Task 3.2

requirements

P28.3.4

Document

and

analyze

test

Task 3.2

results against expected results

P28.4.1

Establish

and

justify

a

Task 4.1

performance baseline

P28.4.2

Monitor

NOS

performance

Task 4.2

against the baseline

P28.4.3

Justify performance optimization

Task 4.3

and update to NOS.

	Grade Descriptors for MERIT			Possible evidence		× /√			Feedback
M1  Identify and apply				Effective judgments have
strategies to find				been made
appropriate solutions
M2  Select / design and				A range of methods and
apply appropriate				techniques have been
methods / techniques				applied
M3 Present and				The appropriate
communicate appropriate				structure and approach
findings				has been used
	Grade Descriptors for			Possible evidence		× /√			Feedback
	Distinction
D1 Use critical reflection				Conclusions have been
to evaluate own work				arrived at through
and justify valid				synthesis of ideas and
conclusions				have been justified
D2 Take responsibility				Activities have been
for managing and				managed
organizing activities
D3 Demonstrate				Innovation and creative
convergent / lateral /				thought have been applied
creative thinking

Scenario

You are appointed as administrator of the XYZ company and you are responsible for implementing, maintaining, supporting, developing and, in some cases, designing communication networks within an organization. Goal is to ensure the integrity of high availability network infrastructure to provide maximum performance for the users.

As manager explained, Company required a central server to store sensitive documents. Sometimes users required to scan and print documents, but it’s not practical to provide printers and scanners for individual users. HRM system is a web based system and should be hosted locally and should be accessible via Internet. All user accounts should be controlled from a central server. Social web sites, online Radio-TV channels & torrents should be blocked on the network.

Task 1

1.1 – Describe the following server types with their usage and benefits.

File Server Print Server

Distributed Scan Server Web Server

Proxy Server

1.2 – Describe the following which is very important to any network.

High Availability Failover

Disaster Recovery

1.3 List and describe 10 security measures to protect your network

Task 2

2.1 – Read the assignment scenario and gather company requirements. Suggest following things after analyzing the requirements.

Required services for the company Number of servers required

Suggest an Operating System considering cost and robustness

2.2 – Create a user feedback form to get the user feedback for a newly implement network.

Task 3

3.1 – Create an installation plan for the identified requirements in task 2.

3.2 – Create a test plan to verify all systems are working as expected.

Task 4

4.1 – Create a network baseline for normal performance without load & establishing performance with load.

4.2 – Describe 3 network performance monitoring tools.

4.3 – Describe 3 methods to optimize the performance of a server without changing the hardware.