Assignment No. 01 Human Resource Management (MGT501) Fall 2014

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MGT501 Human Resource Management Assignment No. 01 Fall 2014 Last Date is 27th November 2014



Mr. Ashraf is a Rector of a public sector university which offers different degree programs in the field of business administration. It also offers professional training courses/diplomas for students who are already in employment. Increasingly this university is experiencing competition from a newly established private university.
This private university is able to deliver programs more efficiently and effectively than
the older established University because of its more flexible work contracts and
working practices. Ashraf is proposing that more of the training should be carried out
on a distance‐learning basis, often being supplemented by taught weekend programs.
This will involve the staff in writing study materials and working weekends.
Ashraf’s university has teaching staff who, in recent years, have had to adapt to new
situations including organizational structure changes and syllabus changes. The staff
is most unhappy with the current proposals which could result in their conditions of
service worsening. They are reluctant to work on weekend basis without additional
payments. This would make the university uncompetitive. The private business
university, although it employs high quality staff, is able to absorb the high costs by
employing lecturers on a freelance basis and by having larger class sizes, the students
being drawn from a larger catchment area. Ashraf is becoming frustrated by his staff’s
apparent opposition to accept the proposed changes and he is contemplating what to
do next.



Question:

Discuss how Ashraf might encourage his staff to be more supportive of the
proposed change in work practice.