F295 Human Resources - 22nd June

username1290300

Is anyone else doing this exam? I couldn't find a thread so thought I'd start one :smile:

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Reply 1

Harrylumsden

meeeeeee!!!! not that popular by the looks of things :frown:

what do you think will come up?

Reply 2

AmAH

its all about HR though, is it bad that im feeling too chill about it?
.. its my last exam!!

Reply 3

Harrylumsden

Original post by AmAH

its all about HR though, is it bad that im feeling too chill about it?
.. its my last exam!!

me too!

Tbh no, I've just had a look at past papers (not 2015, will have to ask my teacher about that)

Question 1: Calculate (4)
2: 'Analyse 2' (6) 2x A03 (Easy!)
3: Evaluate/Discuss (13) So I'm guessing 3xA04 with no evaluation?
4: 'Analyse 1' (6) 1xAO3
5: 'Evaluate Discuss' (13) Same as Q3
6: 'Justify' (18) always starts with 'considering HR + other issues' so I'm guessing it's inviting you to answer on HR/finance/operations 3xA04 + evaluation

Reply 4

Passc3c4

Original post by Harrylumsden

me too!

what ratios should we know for this exam?

Reply 5

username1290300

Original post by Passc3c4

what ratios should we know for this exam?

I don't think we need to know any ratios, only performance indicators e.g. lateness, absenteeism, labour turnover, wastage etc.

I'm a bit worried for it, haven't focussed on it at all really in revision!
This might be quite helpful though, goes through all the key areas: https://www.studyblue.com/#flashcard/view/9481805

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 6

emmamooney

I'm doing this exam too as a resit! I got a D in the exam last year but got an A in f297 :frown:

Finding this really difficult to revise for, nothing seems to go in!

I've noticed a lot of the time, the 6 and 13 mark questions all relate on how it affects the staff.

For example, Analyse two reasons for why productivity has fallen.
This usually relates to things like lack of motivation or skills/qualifications of the workforce

Other examples include, Analyse two human resource issues as a result of high labour turnover
This would include things like additional unit costs as the firm have to recruit more staff, training costs as they have to train new staff, opportunity cost, current employees feeling demotivated and resent having a higher workload.

Reply 7

ga7798

Would an example of analysis be "xxx demotivates staff, so productivity will fall, so higher labour costs per unit, labour turnover will increase, therefore higher costs of recruiting new staff, so profit margins fall etc..."

I've been so caught up in the whole 'evaluation' in F295 that i'm struggling to go back to just analysing!

Reply 8

emmamooney

yeah thats perfect analysis in my opinion, but then when we go onto evaluate what do we consider? short-term and long-term consequences? any other things we should consider when evaluating as L4 is very important.

Reply 9

georgie2498

what do we think is going to come up? You learning appraisal as that was on last year

Reply 10

ga7798

Original post by georgie2498

what do we think is going to come up? You learning appraisal as that was on last year

What else came up last year do you know?

I've just learnt everything in general, all of the info will be in the case study so it wont be hard to apply the theory

Reply 11

emmamooney

i can't remember what came up last year, im trying to drill health and safety, employee participation, tribunals etc as things like training are common sense