Assessment Overview
- This assessment requires you to write an essay that identifies and assesses problems in a case study scenario here “Scenario case.doc”
- The problems may be: legal or of poor employment or management practice.
- You are then required to provide recommended solutions for these problems.
- You can use reliable New Zealand based websites for the majority of your sources. However, you may find that other academic references such as book chapters or academic journal articles are also useful.
- This assessment refers to the topics on employment rights and responsibilities and stakeholder interests. However, you could potentially refer to ideas around later topics in the semester such as ‘Decent work’.
- You are expected to look up employment law and advice on employment in New Zealand to help you identify what problems there are in the scenario before providing recommendations to resolve the problems.
Assessment Requirements
The essay should be 1500 words (+/- 10%) excluding references.
You are required to use the case scenario provided here:in “Scenario case.doc””
· Identify and explain what the problems or issues are in the scenario.
· Explain why it is a problem. e.g. it is against the employment law; it is bad practice.
· Give 4-6 total recommendations for how to improve this situation. You should give recommendations for the employee and recommendations for the employer.
· Explain why you have suggested these recommendations and discuss the benefits and disadvantages for the employee and the employer. You should also link to the information you gave earlier that explains if they are legal problems or just not good practice.
· Conclude the assessment by choosing the top 1-3 recommendations from the total recommendations that you gave. Explain why you have chosen these particular 1-3 solutions.
Tips:
· You will find it easier to focus on about 3 employment issues/problems in this scenario. That will mean you can discuss each one in depth, and give the pros and cons of the situation and your recommendations.
· You will probably find more than 3 problems in the scenario. You can list them all in a ‘Table’ in your assessment with a very brief explanation to say if it is a legal problem or ‘bad practice’.
· If you want to add a little more background information to the scenario, that is ok. It might be a little more information on the employee’s circumstances, for example.
structure
· Briefly introduce what the essay is about. State the structure of the essay.
· Identify what the issues are.
· Explain why these are problems/issues. For example, are they illegal? Or are the legal, but employment practices that are not so good.
· Present all the possible recommendations that could solve the issues that you identified AND why you are making these recommendations, including the benefits and disadvantages.
· Conclusion: Present the final 1-3 recommendations