This assignment is designed to get you to think more deeply about Part 2 of how you might solve the overall management challenge and why your chosen approach could be the “best way. the goal of A2 (Part 2) is to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of a particular business model created to manage the LaTrobe Valley HESC project
Requirements for the assignment:
Re-state the management challenges (as you see it) as a research question
You may need to do some research on ‘how best to formulate a research question.’
Undertake a literature review of management literature on energy / sustainability challenges. You may wish to refer to the Victorian Government Renewable Hydrogen Plan ( will be uploaded )
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to generate some ideas. This review will help you to better understand the nature of the management challenges HESC is facing, how theory can inform a solution and what (if anything) has been tried before to solve the management challenge you have identified (e.g. Has this kind of challenge occurred before? Maybe in another industry? How has it been solved?)
With this assignment, you become the designer of both tangible and intangible aspects organisation processes, given the emergent challenges that the LaTrobe Valley HESC project is facing.
Identify and select appropriate scholarly tools, models and theories that will help you to understand the implications on hard and soft systems in relation to a management challenge or strategy (e.g., leadership, CSR, ethics, HR, etc.)
When the HESC operating environment requires them to engage more staff, which area of HRM should they pay attention to? Selection? Development? Retention? Why and How?
What kind of leadership and subsequent cultures need to be formed? Why and How?
Are there ethical aspects we have to consider with internal and external stakeholders? Why and How?
What elements of CSR are implicated especially in regard to the broader community (e.g., Gippsland, Victoria, Australia)?
In designing an overall organisational process, you have to consider an overall alignment between HRM, leadership/culture, CSR, and ethics to make sure they all say the same thing when communicating with and motivating employees and / or keeping the community happy with the project being in their midst.
Write a report justifying why your research approach to solving the management challenge should be adopted.
Appendix: Write a 250-word response to the feedback you received in your first assignment and what you did in reaction to that feedback to develop your approach to achieving success in this assignment (this does not count towards your total word count).
