You apply for a role as a senior HR Manager in a large private sector organisation. As a part of the selection process, you are asked to make a ten-minute presentation on what you consider to be ONE major way in which the HR function can add value for an organisation. What would you say and Why? Justify your answer with reference to your reading.\Points to consider in your response.

Who are you in the context of the question? Make sure you write your answer as that person.

Where does that person work (ie large private sector organisation)? Make sure that you write your answer suitable to the place of work.

Word count and length of the presentation. The assessment question word count is 1,000 words +/-10% and the length of the presentation is ten minutes. The presentation style: tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you have told them.

Remember the ‘why’ and justify your answer.

ONE major way in which the HR function can add value to an organisation. That is the question you are answering, nothing else!

Marchington, M., Wilkinson, A., Donnelly, R., and Kynighou, A. (2020), Human Resource Management at Work, 7th ed. London: CIPD

Assessment practice: Question 9

You have been invited to deliver a guest lecture at a university for students on a final year undergraduate HRM programme. Your brief is to provide students with an insight into your role as a people management professional. What would you highlight as being the main features of your role? Justify your answer with examples.

Points to consider in your response.

Who are you in the context of the question? Make sure you write your answer as that person.

Where does that person work?

Word count and length of the presentation. The assessment question word count is 1,000 words +/-10%.

‘Main features of your role.’

‘Justify’ your answer with examples. More than one example will be required.

Keep to the question. That is the question you are answering, nothing else!