Human Resources

BUSM3201
Closed
RMIT University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Marco De Sisto
Lecturer
1
Timeline
  • January 19, 2021
    Experience start
  • February 8, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • March 1, 2021
    Followup Meeting with Students
  • April 30, 2021
    Experience end
General
  • Undergraduate; 3rd year, 2nd year
  • 100 learners; teams of 5
  • 20 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 1 projects wanted
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Large enterprise, Small to medium enterprise
  • Any industries
Categories
Leadership Communications Operations Project management
Skills
business strategy communication research human resources business consulting
Project timeline
  • January 19, 2021
    Experience start
  • February 8, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • March 1, 2021
    Followup Meeting with Students
  • April 30, 2021
    Experience end
Overview
Learner goals and capabilities

Does your company want ideas and input from undergraduate students on human resource initiatives such as onboarding, hiring, training or evaluating employees?

Beginning in early January 2021, RMIT students in Singapore will provide ideas and recommendations based on their research, experience and perspectives.

Expected outcomes and deliverables

Group oral presentations and written reports of approximately 3000 words providing:

  • Research
  • Analysis
  • Recommendations
  • Creative ideas
  • Implementing, process and timeline recommendations
Project Examples

Students working in groups will address organizational human resource related challenges. The project would be designed to capture the interest of the organization and the students to maximize the creative ideas and genuine input.

Project Subject Examples:

  • On-boarding new employees during a time of COVID-19 when many employees are working from home. How is this best done and what does the graduating generation hope and expect during on-boarding? How can an organization make the process successful leading to the retention of employees?
  • Training online or in-person for the fastest uptake of information. How can training build on experiential events? How does this generation prefer to learn and be trained? How can the training and development process lead to the greatest productivity of the employee?
  • Hiring to attract the most appropriate employees who will be interested in the position and the organization and look to stay with the organization. How best to share a job snapshot that allows applicants to determine if the job is a good fit.
  • Selection processes that make new hires feel committed to an organization from the start and avoids turnover and ghosting.
  • Evaluating employees in the current environment where employees are working from home, the office or both. This group of students would provide a generational perspective. Do they want a review/feedback over Zoom/Teams or do they prefer the continuous feedback approach through an app? What would work for this generation?

Other project ideas related to human resource management are also of interest. Please contact the professor through Riipen’s chat to determine if an alternative idea could fit the project.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Provide generic feedback on the overall quality of the best-selected reports.

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails, attend Zoom meetings or take phone calls from the professor over the duration of the project to address professor and students' questions.

Meet online with students twice during the semester. The first meeting would be to outline the project details and the second meeting would be to answer students' questions.