- The Context
: Master of Business Administration : MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL
: 21 September 2016
: 4,000 words maximum
Human Resource or Human Capital Management is increasingly being accepted as having a key strategic role for businesses. Firms must increasingly manage its people assets strategically. As a result, companies today have pressing HR needs with respect to planning, selecting, training, paying, engaging and retaining talents.
You have just been appointed as the Human Resource Director for a large company with more than 3000 employees. Your immediate task is to review the human capital strategies, policies and practices prevailing in the company. As part of your work, you have to consider the following requirements:
a) The management of human resource planning, recruitment and selection of manpower and come up with appropriate strategies, policies programmes and practices.
b) The recommendation of total reward systems, including rewards and staff welfare schemes. The key components of total rewards programmes should include base salary, bonuses, travelling allowances, housing and other allowances.
c) Other areas, including employment ethics, usage of Internet during working hours, employee relations and engagement and talent retention strategies.
Task
You are to write a comprehensive HR report to the Group CEO of your company, detailing the above human capital issues, policies and practices currently being used in your organisation or another organisation you are familiar with. You have to critically review current practices and strategies and then propose and recommend the necessary HR strategies, policies programmes and practices to be implemented for the company covering those areas.

Instructions for the Management Report:
Your report (not exceeding 4500 words) should incorporate the following:
(a) Executive Summary (5%)
200-300 words, not to be included in the word count.
(b) Introduction (10%)
You should clearly identify any assumptions you make for your company, such as the business it is in, size of operation, competitor(s), home country nationality, and other relevant information you deemed useful.
(c) Main Body (65%)
You should identify suitable frameworks or models to use in the report and be organised under appropriate sub-headings on the requirements listed in (a) – (c) of the assignment question.
(d) Conclusion (10%)
Direct the end of your report to the Group CEO to convince him of your proposed HRM strategies, policies programmes and practices for the Malaysia subsidiary.
(e) References (10%) Harvard-style reference list.
Have a minimum of 12 references.
