Global Talent Management – Impact of E-recruitment at Nike Inc

Assignment Title- Global Talent Management – Staffing Case Study Report

Your task is to write a case study report analysing the 2017 staffing policies and practices of your chosen MNE (headquartered in any country in the world) which has an office in London,UK:

• Before finalising your choice of MNE, check that sufficient information on the company is available to undertake the required analysis. A 2016/17 annual report together with other recent sources such as websites, newspaper articles should be sufficient.
• Build on TAG and draft outline in-class formative feedback to improve your introduction, argument and referencing.
• Use academic theory (models/frameworks) to identify and discuss the staffing challenges the MNE faces.
• Better assignments will integrate reflections on global talent management.
• Include a cover sheet, table of contents, executive summary, introduction, conclusion, and a reference list.

Page Count

Four (4) pages maximum (of which 3 – 3 ½  pages can be text and up to 1 page can be figures/diagrams/tables)

Page formatting requirements:

A4 – paper size

Font – 12-point

Margins – 2.54 cm on all sides

Line Spacing – 1 ½

Each figure/diagram/table must contain no more than 100 words

The cover sheet, table of contents, and reference list does not count towards the total page count

No appendices are permitted

Allocation of marks

Executive Summary (10 Marks)

• A summary of the whole report covering:
  • Company
  • Analysis
  • Recommendations

Introduction (10 Marks)

• What you are going to tell the reader in this report
• Not the same as an executive summary

Applying appropriate academic theory (models/frameworks), analyse your chosen MNE’s current worldwide staffing model  (25 Marks)

• What are the determinants of staffing for this MNE?
• What is the current staffing model for this MNE?
• Discuss any match/mismatch between determinants and model in use?

Applying appropriate academic models/frameworks and following from your initial analysis, evaluate the changes to UK staffing policy and practices management might need to consider going forward into 2018 and beyond (20 Marks)

• What should UK staffing policy and practices move towards?
• Will use of international assignments change?
• How might selection of assignees change?

Conclusion (10 Marks)

• What you told the reader in this report
• What are two recommendations or the UK office to adopt in 2018?

References (5 Marks)

• Appropriate choice of academic references (minimum 5)
• Appropriate use of academic references (in-text and end-of-assessment list)

Thematic Analysis Grid (TAG)* (10 Marks)

• 5 academic references
• Fully completed row for each reference

*To ensure good academic practice, the TAG is to be submitted directly after an in-class formative session, but marked summatively only at the time the case study report is marked.

Draft Report Structure* (10 Marks)

• Focused relevant topic
• Clear introduction
• Two selected in-text citations (showing how each citation is used to support your work)
• Harvard style reference list
• Spelling, grammar, punctuation

*To ensure good academic practice, the draft report structure is to be submitted directly after an in-class formative session, but marked summatively only at the time the case study report is marked.

Penalty (if any) for exceeding page count

Markers will stop reading at the end of four (4) pages or sooner where students have circumvented formatting guidelines and/or balance of text versus figures/tables/diagrams (including allowable word count in illustrations).

N.B. The cover sheet, table of contents, reference list, TAG and draft report structure ARE NOT included in the total number of pages.

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In this contemporary world that we live in, Global Talent Management is subject to successful management of staffs in the organization. The departments of human resource are transforming as the contemporary organizations…

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