HRM3701 Assignment 1
(COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2024 (585848) - DUE
26 August 2024
100% GUARANTEED
, HRM3701 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2024 (585848) - DUE 26 August 2024
Operational context NOVA Economics is a specialist
economic and development consulting firm which
employs 120 people, the consultants are all economists,
financial analysts and computer scientists. Most of the
staff are between their 30s and mid-40s many with
master’s degrees and some with PhDs. Founded in 2002,
NOVA Economics provides clients with the in-depth
expertise and analysis necessary to make the right
choices. The consultants combine a deep understanding
of the Southern African business and policy context with
specialist skills in international trade, public policy and
regulation, competition economics and climate change.
The work is very technical, involving large amounts of
data analysis. Where NOVA Economics does not have
specialist skills in-house, the consulting firm was able to
draw on a network of local experts and academics as well
as their strategic business partners in Australia and
Europe. Before lockdown, staff were used to remote
videoconferencing with clients, and company policy
allowed working from home one day a week, but this
wasn’t particularly commonplace. The Managing Director
Yash Ramkolowan commented that ‘even if once a week
someone would work from home, the rest of the team
would be in the office, so it did have the feeling that most
people were in the office most of the time.’ In terms of
flexible hours, there was already a culture of flexing the
start and end of the day, both for work–life balance needs
and to enable meetings with “THEIR” clients in different
time zones. While some staff made use of this, many also
worked traditional office hours, and core hours of 11.00 to
15.00 were in place. The type of knowledge work done by
(COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2024 (585848) - DUE
26 August 2024
100% GUARANTEED
, HRM3701 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2024 (585848) - DUE 26 August 2024
Operational context NOVA Economics is a specialist
economic and development consulting firm which
employs 120 people, the consultants are all economists,
financial analysts and computer scientists. Most of the
staff are between their 30s and mid-40s many with
master’s degrees and some with PhDs. Founded in 2002,
NOVA Economics provides clients with the in-depth
expertise and analysis necessary to make the right
choices. The consultants combine a deep understanding
of the Southern African business and policy context with
specialist skills in international trade, public policy and
regulation, competition economics and climate change.
The work is very technical, involving large amounts of
data analysis. Where NOVA Economics does not have
specialist skills in-house, the consulting firm was able to
draw on a network of local experts and academics as well
as their strategic business partners in Australia and
Europe. Before lockdown, staff were used to remote
videoconferencing with clients, and company policy
allowed working from home one day a week, but this
wasn’t particularly commonplace. The Managing Director
Yash Ramkolowan commented that ‘even if once a week
someone would work from home, the rest of the team
would be in the office, so it did have the feeling that most
people were in the office most of the time.’ In terms of
flexible hours, there was already a culture of flexing the
start and end of the day, both for work–life balance needs
and to enable meetings with “THEIR” clients in different
time zones. While some staff made use of this, many also
worked traditional office hours, and core hours of 11.00 to
15.00 were in place. The type of knowledge work done by
