Strategic Human Resource Management

Assignment

Strategic HRM is an approach to making decisions on the intentions and plans of the organization concerning the employment relationship and its recruitment, training, development, performance management, reward and employee relations strategies, policies and practices.

The key characteristic of strategic HRM is that it is integrated. HR strategies are generally integrated vertically with the business strategy and horizontally with one another. The HR strategies developed by a strategic HRM approach are essential components of the organization''s business strategy.

By combining the HRM function with business strategy, SHRM reflects a more flexible arrangement and utilization of human resources to achieve the organizational goals, and accordingly helps organizations gain a competitive advantage.

TASK
Critically evaluate how linking of Human Resources with strategic goals and objectives can improve business performance and develop organizational culture that fosters innovation, flexibility and competitive advantage.

Drawing largely from academic publications, critically analyze how an organization's strategic aspects and practices of investing in people can improve business performance and help them to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.

INSTRUCTIONS

Your work will be graded on the following aspects:

1. This is an individual assignment.

2. The assignment MUST be submitted on-line (through MOVE) on or before the due date.

3. Your assignment shall reflect the depth and breadth of your original analyses in a clear and coherent manner.

4. Use of the relevant academic literature to support ideas and issues discussed. The range of academic sources such as texts and journals to support your arguments and comments.

5. Any reference to authors and other writers shall be quoted with due acknowledgement in your assignment report using the Harvard Referencing System. For details of Harvard referencing style refer the student's handbook page 46-47 section 7.2.

6. This is an individual assignment and carries a 50% weighting of the module grade.

7. This assignment follows an essay format (modify according to the requirement of your assignment) and must be original and creative. An analytical piece of work is required. The use of 'cut and paste' approach will be penalized. It must be presented in a structured manner, with appropriate cover page, content page, introduction, body (with appropriate heading / sub-headings), conclusion, references, page numbered and any required appendices.

8. Your assignment should be word processed and professionally presented. The length of your essay should be 3000 words (+/- 10%), presented in text of font size 12 with 1.5-line spacing. Please state the exact word count at the end of the assignment.

9. The cover page should be attached with the assignment and uploaded through MOVE (on-line. Name of the student, The Programme, Module Title, Assignment Title and number of words must be reflected on the cover sheet.

10. All assignments must be adhered strictly to the deadlines specified by Majan College. Failure to hand in the assignment for any reason and without prior approval and a valid written extension from the module tutor will not be marked and will be awarded a grade G (0) irrespective of the quality of the work. See Student handbook page 16-17 section 4.4.

11. Unacknowledged use of work of others (plagiarism) is regarded as a dishonest practice and will be will be penalized. See the penalties in the student's handbook page 35-36 section 5.8.

Additional Guidelines

. The Assignment Submission link on MOVE will be open, a week ahead of the submission date.
. You can submit your assignment multiple times, till the submission deadline. Note that Turnitin could take up to 24 hours to produce similarity reports for submissions.
. The last submission, within the deadline, will be considered as your final submission.
. Assignments should be submitted by 6pm on the day of the deadline. There is a grace period until midnight to allow for any technical difficulties, but any assignments submitted after this will be counted as late. Technical problems will not be accepted as an excuse for submitting after the day of the deadline.
. You are required to tick to confirm the statement: "I confirm that this assignment is my own and all sources have been acknowledged. I understand that the use of other people's work or ideas without acknowledgement is plagiarism and could result in failing the assignment". You will not be able to submit the assignment without ticking this box.
. In a case of group work, it is recommended that the group should identify a leader who can be responsible for uploading the assignment on Turnitin and to share the feedback received from lecturers with the group members.
. The similarity percentage of your final submission will be one of the factors considered, for assessing the originality of your assignment. However, the decision to report an assignment for plagiarism is taken by the Lecturers, who mark your assignment.
. The Lecturers will consider a number of factors such as Assignment type, Part of the assignment where similarity occurs, Nature of similarity etc., along with the similarity percentage of your assignment, to assess the originality of your assignment. Therefore, similarity percentage would not be accepted as a basis for disputing academic judgments regarding plagiarism.
. Note that the similarity percentage of your submission can change till the submission deadline, if the submissions of other students have similarity to your assignment. Therefore, the similarity percentages are not final, till the assignment submission is closed.