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المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment 1
MGT211 (Second Semester 2023-2024)
Due Date: 09/03/2024 @ 23:59
Course Name: HR Management
Student’s Name:
Course Code: MGT211
Student’s ID Number: S
Semester: Second
CRN:
Academic Year: 2023-2024, Second Semester
For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name: Njood Alzarah
Students’ Grade:
/ 10
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
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This assignment is an individual assignment.
The due date for Assignment 1 is 09/03/2024.
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The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via the allocated
folder.
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Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
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Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be
reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling in your information on the
cover page.
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Students must mention question numbers clearly in their answers.
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Late submission will NOT be accepted.
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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.
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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.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment Workload:
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This Assignment comprises of a short Case.
Assignments are to be submitted by each student individually.
Assignment Purposes/Learning Outcomes:
After completion of Assignment one students will be able to understand the following
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LO1: To understand the role of human resources within the organization.
LO2: To differentiate between the major functions of Human Resources and
their interdependency.
Read the case given below and answer the questions:
Maryam, the owner, and manager of a company with ten employees, has hired you to
take over the HRM function so she can focus on other areas of her business. During your
first two weeks, you find out that the company has been greatly affected by the up
economy and is expected to experience overall revenue growth of 10 percent over the
next three years, with some quarters seeing growth as high as 30 percent. However, five
of the ten workers are expected to retire within three years. These workers have been
with the organization since the beginning and provide a unique historical perspective of
the company. The other five workers are of diverse ages.
In addition to these changes, Maryam believes they may be able to save costs by allowing
employees to telecommute one to two days per week. She has some concerns about
productivity if she allows employees to work from home. Despite these concerns, Maryam
has even considered closing the physical office and making her company a virtual
organization, but she wonders how such a major change will affect the ability to
communicate and worker motivation.
Maryam shares with you her thoughts about the costs of health care for the organization.
She has considered cutting benefits entirely and having her employees work for her on a
contract basis, instead of being full-time employees. She isn’t sure if this would be a good
choice.
Maryam schedules a meeting with you to discuss some of her thoughts. To prepare for the
meeting, you perform research so you can impress your new boss with recommendations
on the challenges presented.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Questions
1.Point out which changes are occurring in the business that affect HRM. (2.5Marks)
2.What are some considerations the company and HR should be aware of when making
changes related to this case study? (2.5Marks)
3.What would the initial steps be to start planning for these changes? (2.5Marks)
4.What would your role be in implementing these changes? What would Maryam’s role
be? (2.5Marks)
Answers:
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المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment 1
Decision Making and Problem Solving (MGT 312)
Due Date: End of Week 7, 16-03-2024
Course Name: Decision Making and Problem Student’s Name:
Solving
Course Code: MGT312
Student’s ID Number:
Semester: Second
CRN:
Academic Year:2023-24; SECOND SEMESTER
For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name: Dr. Khadija Saidi
Students’ Grade:
/ 10
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
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The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) 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.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Define different perspectives and concepts of problem solving in diverse contexts
and business situations. (C.L.O :1.2)
2. Demonstrate decision tools and employ appropriate analytical business models to
break down complex issues. (C.L.O :2.2)
3. Explain and apply critical thinking and cognitive psychology as it pertains to
analyze and synthesize information for problem solving and decision making.
(C.L.O :2.1)
Case Study:
Talal, CEO and the president of a pharmaceutical company based in Riyadh. Talal is going
to retire after three months and has been asked to select his successor. He wanted to decide
one candidate from the following three best possible candidates he feels would best take
over his position.
1) Badar the VP – Marketing, Working with company from 20 years and under Talal
for 7 years.
2) Rayyan the VP-Operations, been with company 23 years has most experience.
3) Sayeed VP-HR, been with company for 15years but has worked his way up the
ladder impressively.
Outside the workplace Badar, Rayyan, Sayeed are close friends and after receiving word
that they are the finalists for the job promotion. Tension rises both within and outside the
workplace. They also find out that the decision will not be announced until few weeks,
which causes that tension to raise that much more. Outside the work the three close friends
have not talked nearly as much since the promotion announcements and is causing negative
effects in their home lives. With the three of them failing to communicate, they won’t know
how they each perceive the situation, thus building on the already present stress and anxiety.
Talal ultimately chooses Badar due to his experience under him as VP. This puts even more
responsibility in Badar’s hands. The decision surely sends shockwaves throughout the
company, starting with Rayyan and Sayeed. Rayyan is extremely upset with the decision,
and with him being a very verbally aggressive person, he starts to cause some conflict with
his work behaviour. Sayeed, who is also highly upset, decides he cannot work under Badar,
quits the job, and cuts off the friendship they had.
To resolve this conflict, Badar calls multiple meetings hoping to improve the
communication within the business, however, this backfires tremendously. Rayyan’s work
behaviour continues to spiral out of control and is constantly verbally aggressive in
meetings, targeting Badar in certain comments, which only makes things worse by making
the rest of the group uncomfortable, this leaves Badar clueless as what to do simply because
he has not done anything wrong. He was awarded a job promotion and has not done
anything to provoke Rayyan or Sayeed to act the way they have.
Read the above case study and answer the following questions:
Q1: What is the main problem in the above case?
[Marks 3]
Q2: Discuss the problem with 5-Why analysis. Draw a cause-and-effect diagram
based on the problem of the case.
[Marks 4]
Q2: If you are consultant and asked to solve the problem, how will you solve the
problem of case? What are the steps you will follow to solve? [Marks 3]
Answers
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