HR9534 Resourcing and Development for Diversity Assessment Brief 2025–2026

Instructions on Assessment

This assessment accounts for 100% of your HR9534 module mark and is in two parts:

• Part 1 requires you to write a 2000-word report reviewing and evaluating the ChatGPT response to an essay question on Resourcing and Development for Diversity.
• Part 2 requires you to reflect critically on two scenarios from specified seminar sessions and on your overall learning relating to the overarching topic of Resourcing and Development for Diversity.

Part 1: Report – 2000 words (70%) [MLO 1, 2 and 3]

Review the ChatGPT response (provided by the module team) to the following question:

“Please write a 2000-word university essay, with references, analysing and critically evaluating the importance of resourcing and development for diversity in organisations.”

• Read and make notes about the strengths and weaknesses of the response. Your annotated answer will be included in your appendices.
• Write a 2000-word essay that evaluates the ChatGPT answer against the assessment criteria, and uses additional academic literature to discuss up to two of the 10 module topics (e.g., discrimination and wellbeing at work).

Your answer must include relevant subject literature from academic journals and books, and a critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the ChatGPT answer.

Part 2: Individual Reflections – 1000 words (30%) [MLO 3, 4 and 5]

This section requires you to complete a 1000-word individual reflection examining the key knowledge and skills you have developed in managing a diverse workforce. Specifically, you are asked to:

1. Write two 250-word reflections (500 words in total) on the seminar debates in week two (Meritocratic Recruitment versus Positive Action) and week seven (Targets versus Behaviours Reward Strategies).
2. Drawing on your two reflections, write an additional 500-word reflective statement on what you have learned about the complexity and challenges of resourcing for a diverse workforce. Critically reflect on what practices could be effective to address these challenges, using academic literature.
3. Include a summary table of the knowledge and skills you have developed in relation to resourcing for diversity at the end of the reflection.

Module Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

• MLO 1: Develop an understanding of key contemporary diversity trends and the significance of resourcing and development for diversity.
• MLO 2: Develop the knowledge and understanding required to analyse and evaluate the resourcing and development needs of an organisation from a diversity management perspective.

Intellectual and professional skills

• MLO 3: Develop the skills required to contribute to the resourcing and development of a diverse workforce in an organisational context.

Personal values attributes

• MLO 4: Build an awareness of diverse cultures and the requirements of a multicultural workforce.
• MLO 5: Understand the ethical aspects of managing a diverse workforce.

Marking Criteria

The 2000-word report (70%) is assessed on:

• Analysis and critical evaluation of the importance of resourcing and development for diversity
• Evaluation of resourcing strategies and practices to promote diversity
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of HR development strategies and practices to promote diversity and inclusion, including the role of leaders and managers in fostering inclusive organisations
• The legal framework context, alongside social, economic and demographic changes and local, national and global concerns
• Conclusion
• Structure, flow of argument and quality of references/evidence (APA referencing)

The 1000-word individual reflective report (30%) is assessed on the depth of reflection on module debates, the complexity and challenges of resourcing for a diverse workforce, and the knowledge and skills summary table.

Word Limit

• The 3000-word limit does not include the front cover, contents, tables and reference list.
• In-text citations and direct quotations are included in the word count.
• Markers may stop reading once the word limit is exceeded by more than 10%.