Assessment Task 1 BSBHRM513 Manage workforce planning

Research workforce requirements and develop workforce planning

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Performance objective

This task requires you to demonstrate skills and knowledge necessary to research workforce requirements within an organisational context and to develop workforce planning.

Assessment description

In response to a simulated business, you will research workforce requirements, review organisational strategic plans and develop a report outlining your proposed workforce plan to meet organisational strategic objectives.

Workforce planning report

Communications strategy

Risk management and contingency plan

Assessment Task 1

Staffing action plan

Workforce planning presentation

Assessment Task 2

Organisational climate survey

Evaluation report

Assessment Task 3

Procedure

1. Review the JKL simulated business documents provided by your assessor and the scenario below.

JKL Industries is an Australian-owned company selling forklifts, small trucks and spare parts to industry, with a rental division leasing forklifts and small trucks. The company’s head office is in Sydney and JKL has branches in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra. After 12 years in business, focusing on forklifts and small trucks, JKL has been offered the sales rights to a range of medium and large trucks from an overseas supplier. This opportunity will provide JKL with an advantage in range over its competitors. Sales results over the past five years have indicated strong growth in forklift and truck sales, which have averaged 10% sales growth per annum. The rental market has been in decline for the past three years due to the reduced costs of these vehicles and some taxation benefits for purchases of these vehicles. Taking the sales opportunity will, however, entail some significant changes, including significant changes to company structure and operations. The company will reposition itself to focus solely on retail sales and service and exit the rentals market, in which forces such as competition and consumer choice reduce potential profitability. The changes will necessarily impact workforce planning. The company will need to ensure it has the right people with the right skills at the right time to achieve objectives. JKL will need to closely monitor turnover and recruitment and implement strategies to retain skilled people and ensure critical roles are filled. In accordance with the organisation’s values, JKL intends (to the extent feasible) to recruit from within the company and upskill or reskill existing rentals employees who wish to remain with the company. As an HR consultant, you have been contracted by JKL to review workforce requirements and develop workforce objectives and strategies. To complete this task, you will need to assess factors that may affect workforce supply, such as internal labour resources and the external labour market.

2. Using the information provided in Appendix 1, review:

a. current data on staff turnover and demographics

b. projections for future workforce needs.

3. Using appropriate sources, investigate the external environment:

a. external factors that may affect workforce supply

b. relevant industrial relations information, such as modern awards, conditions, rights and responsibilities of workers and management

c. relevant government policy.

4. Using the results of your review of internal and external data and simulated business documentation, such as strategic or operational plans, develop a workforce planning report containing:

a. An executive summary: a short summary of the contents of the report.

b. A discussion of organisational need. including current and future situation with respect to workforce capability:

i. a description of the organisation’s requirements for a skilled and diverse workforce

ii. a discussion of the data you have considered and analysis of the impact on organisational objectives, including:

(1) internal and external labour supply predictions

(2) external conditions, for example, government policy

(3) organisational future demand and predictive techniques used.

c. Recommended actions:

i. Your proposed objectives for the modification of the workforce and retention of the workforce in line with strategic objectives through FY 2016–17. Ensure you develop objectives for sourcing skilled labour and promoting from within by:

(1) developing skills and organisational capability

(2) retaining skilled labour

(3) promoting workforce diversity.

ii. Your proposed strategies for realising each of the objectives above.

iii. Your proposed process for developing detailed targets consistent with objectives in consultation with managers.

5. Develop a communication strategy using the template provided in Appendix 2: