Human Resources Consulting
General
- Graduate; 2nd year
- 15 learners; teams of 3
- 40 hours per learner
- Dates set by projects
- Educators assign learners to projects
Preferred companies
- 3 projects wanted
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Small to medium enterprise
- Business & management
Categories
Overview
- Details
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You will develop a comprehensive HR strategic analysis for an industry partner (i.e., local companies, community organizations, government agencies, NGOs). Your instructor will help you connect with the potential industry partner through Riipen platform. You will research and provide an analysis of a major workplace implementation, such as HR strategic plan, conducting job analysis and designing job descriptions, recruitment and selection strategy, performance management/ evaluation program, training and development program, formulating talent management strategy, compensation and benefits program, health and wellness plan. Evaluate the viability of such implementation by addressing the key issues required for success. In this, you will be expected to critically analyze Strategic Human Resource Management System/sub-systems as mentioned above, identify problems, and recommend constructive improvements. The success issues should be derived from current research.
Students will work in the following areas:
1.1 - Employee and Labour Relations
1.2 - Total Health and Wellness
1.3 - Inclusion, Diversity and Human Connections
1.4 - Total Rewards
1.5 - Learning, Development and Succession Planning
1.6 - Workforce Planning and Mobility
1.7 - HR Technology and Analytics
1.8 - Innovation
1.9 - Organizational Change and Development
- Learner skills
- Recruitment planning, Strategic planning, Job analysis, Performance management, Talent management, Organizational change management, Organizational leadership, Workforce planning, Performance appraisal, Learning development
- Deliverables
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Deliverables are negotiable and will seek to align the needs of the business and the learning needs of the student. Some examples:
- Conduct a job analysis which identifies the key knowledge, skills, abilities and appropriate requirements for a position.
- Develop a job description with KSAOs specifications and identify assessment tools which will effectively measure KSAO job requirements.
- Design a recruitment plan for the target job and develop interview structures and scoring systems.
- Evaluate existing staffing programs for effectiveness and legal compliance.
- Create an effective performance evaluation system to be used in a variety of organizational structures.
- Evaluate staffing systems to be in compliance with Canadian and Provincial Human Rights and employment legislation.
Project Examples
Sample student projects include, but are not limited to:
- Designing/redesigning an internal system or process related to HR planning, job analysis, recruitment and selection, training and development, talent management, compensation and benefits, occupational health and safety, employee management relations.
- Developing/refining a balanced scorecard for performance management.
- Developing a plan to address employee turnover/employee retention.
- Developing a program to support the inclusion, engagement, and retention of diverse employees (e.g., women, ethnic minorities, LGBT)
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.
A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.