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The document discusses housing issues in the UK construction industry. It notes that between 1992 and 2007, UK house prices increased 250% while the average first-time buyer age rose to 37. A housing slump began in 2010 with 118,000 new homes built, less than half the 240,000 needed annually. Causes included the recession and poor planning as land approved for development decreased. The government set targets of 3 million new homes by 2020 but regional/local councils struggled with regulations around granting planning permissions. Stakeholders disagreed on the best approach, with builders citing high costs/complexity of regulations and local councils wanting more autonomy over planning.

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Harambee University College

The document discusses housing issues in the UK construction industry. It notes that between 1992 and 2007, UK house prices increased 250% while the average first-time buyer age rose to 37. A housing slump began in 2010 with 118,000 new homes built, less than half the 240,000 needed annually. Causes included the recession and poor planning as land approved for development decreased. The government set targets of 3 million new homes by 2020 but regional/local councils struggled with regulations around granting planning permissions. Stakeholders disagreed on the best approach, with builders citing high costs/complexity of regulations and local councils wanting more autonomy over planning.

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Harambee University College

Department of Project Management (PM)


Human Resource management (HRM)
Course Code MBA: 612
Assignment of Human Resource Management
Group 2
Name Of Members Id No
1.Tolossa Assefa……………………………………………… HPM /846/12R-Ad

Submitted to Bekele Shibru (PHD)

Submission date: 24/08/2020


1) Describe the term Job Analysis and Job design? List also the output of Job Analysis?
(5%)
Job Analysis:
 Is the process of studying and collecting information relating to the operation and
responsibilities of a specific job?
 Is the process of gathering and analyzing information about the content and the human
requirements of jobs?
 is a systematic process used to identify the tasks, duties, responsibilities and working conditions
associated with a job and the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics required to
perform that job.
 It is also a process of determining which characteristics are necessary for satisfactory job
performance and analyzing the environmental conditions in which the job is performed.
 It analyzes the work content of job & job content of work.

Job design:
 Is the process of the restructuring of jobs to improve efficiency of the business and
improve employee satisfaction.
 is the restructuring of jobs to improve efficiency of the business and improve employee
satisfaction.

 Is refers to the way that a set of tasks, or an entire job, is organized.


 Is the process of deciding on the contents of a job in terms of its duties and
responsibilities.
 It is a core function of human resource management and it is related to the specification
of contents, methods and relationship of jobs in order to satisfy technological and
organizational requirements as well as the social and personal requirements of the job.
Job design helps to determine:

 What tasks are done. Response


 How the tasks are done?
 How many tasks are done?
 In what order the tasks are done?

The output of job analysis: -


1. Job description indicates the tasks and responsibilities, job title, duties, machines, tools and
equipment, working conditions and occupational hazards that form part of the job.
a. Job Tittle
b. Job location
c. Job Summary
d. Reporting
e. Working Condition
f. Job duties
g. Machine to be used
h. hazard
2. job specification comprises of the capabilities required to perform job, education, experience,
training, judgmental skills, communication skills and personal skills required to perform the job
effectively.

a. Qualifications
b. Experience
c. Training
d. Skill
e. Responsibilities
f. Emotional Characteristics
g. Sensory demands.
h. Abilities

2) Explain the similarities between personal management and human resource


management (5 %)

 Both of them typically use payroll software packages and monitor employees’ time worked.
 Both regard putting the right people on the right jobs as one of the overall goals of the
meaning people at the work place.
 Both approaches share the same fields of activity to remuneration and performance
management.
 In both concepts the management and development personnel is not only the specialist
function but also lies in the responsibility of line management.

 Both models focus on the significance of integrating personnel and management


techniques with organizational objective.
 In both models the strategies for managing personnel are derived from the business
strategy and integrated with organizational goals.

 Both approaches are meant to resolve employee’s problems.

 Both approaches agree that employees have a right to proper treatment as dignified human beings
while at work.

 Both of them Human resource management and Personnel Management is approaches’ main
function is to focus on finding and recruiting the best employees to work for the organization, and
generally managing them for the benefit of the organization.

 Both of them provide these employees with appropriate training in employee retention.

 both approaches are meant to solve employee’s problems.

 Both of them concerned with providing the employees with appropriate benefits and
compensations.
 Both Human resource management and Personnel Management must deal with the challenges in
the multinational organization.
 Both models emphasize the importance of individual fully developing their abilities for their own
personal satisfaction to make their best contribution to organizational success
 Both models identify placing the right people into the right jobs as an important means of
integrating practice with organizational goals

Case application
Short term and long term planning in the UK construction
Between 1992 and 2007, house prices on England rose by a staggering 250 percent. The average
age of a first time buyer (without family or state assistance) was now 37 years of age. Four out of
ten Britons between the ages of 18 and 30 said they would have delayed having children until
after they brought their first property. In 2010 it was reported that UK construction industry was
experiencing its worst slump in 30 years. About 118,000 homes were built in England in 2009,
down from 175,000 in 2007. It was less than half of the 240,000 needed annually to meet the
government’s goal to build 3 million homes from mid-2007 to 2020. The lack of new properties
is affecting both private buyers and those seeking state housing. Nearly 5 million people are on
waiting lists for government-subsidized housing and first-time home buyers are struggling to
enter the market because of prohibitively high prices and more limitations on mortgages.
What is the cause of the housing slump? The global recession certainly played a major part as
construction projects were abandoned resulting in a lower number of new homes. Poor planning
perhaps contributed to the problem as well. The amount of land approved for development has
been decreasing steadily over the last 10 years. Moreover, there was not enough land available to
meet the short-term and long-term demand, according to the , the industry’s main lobby group.
Consequently, Citi group has predicted a possible shortage of 1.2 million homes by 2016. Peter
Redfern, chief executive officer of Taylor Wimpey Plc, the country’s second-largest home
builder, feels that with a scarcity of readily available land a growing population, a radical change
is needed to enable planning to be granted on more site
The previous Labour government set its home building target following a 2004 report that
concluded there was a shortfall of about 450,000 homes (later the decline in building during the
recession had pushed that figure closer to 1 million). Regional governing bodies set their own
housing targets. Local councils that failed to meet both of these goals would potentially lose their
state funding. The government also planned to provide financial incentives to local councils to
encourage them to grant planning permission.
Former Labour Housing Minister John Healey believes that central planning is necessary for
coordinating infra-structure work that helps promote investment, boost economic growth and
deliver homes. From another perspective, the Home Builder Federation argues that the
government needs to reduce the cost, complexity, and uncertainty of regulation that is preventing
the building of more homes. At the same time, the conservations, the opposition party at the
time, argued that more planning authority should be given to local councils. Bearing all this in
mind, market fragility and supply uncertainty in the UK sector is still making planning a
complex task for any government.
Discussion Question (10%)
1) Why have plans failed to achieve the targets in the UK housing industry?
2) What short-term and long-term plan does the UK construction sector need?
3) What is the rationale to build more homes as disputed by Home builders Federation?
4) What “carrot and stick” approach do you observe to be provided for local councils?

Answer
1) Because of:
 Global recession
 Poor planning
 Decreasing of land approved for development
 There was not enough land available
2) Short term plan: Building 240,000 homes annually
Long term plan: Building 3million homes from mid2007-2020
3) The rational to build more homes disputed by home builder Federation are:
 High cost
 Complexity and
 Uncertainty of regulation that is presenting the building of more homes

4) “carrot and Stick”approaches are:


 Lose state funding
 Providing initial incentive
 Government needs to reduce the cost complexity and uncertainty
 More planning authority

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