Teaching guide: Human resources

With a focus on unfamiliar topics, we’ve created this teaching guide to support you in planning your lessons.

Organisational structures

Delegation and delayering

Classroom activities

• Organisation charts provide a visual representation of the structures that will help students to understand the terminology.
• Students could calculate the impact on wage/salary bill of removing a middle management layer from a business. They could then calculate how many additional posts at a lower level could be added to the staffing structure.

Recruitment and selection of employees

Job sharing and zero hour contracts

Classroom activities

• Zero hour contracts have often been in the news in recent years, including some high-profile companies. Look for news items to use as sources of information.
• A series of statements that could be combined to create a set of descriptions for:
• the features of contracts (full time, part time, job share and zero hours)
• benefits to the business,
• drawbacks to the business,
• benefits to the employees and
• drawbacks to the employees.
• Separating the statements produces a series of points that can be used as a matching exercise to consolidate students’ understanding.