BUILDING QUALITY ORGANISATIONS

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ASSIGNMENT  No 2

Introduction: Give a brief description of the organisation chosen as an example to illustrate your remarks.

Question 1

Explain how Human Resource Management performs a key function in the strategic management of the organisation and contributes to the organisation’s optimum business performance.

Answers to question one:. Human Resource Management and Strategic Planning: Optimizing performance.   Key words: Organisation strategy and HRM strategy.

Question 2

Explain how Human Resource Management can enable the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives by structuring the organisation through planning, policies, practices and job design.

Answer to question two: Human Resource Planning.  Discuss global economy, changing demographics Key words: Changing workplaces and changing nature of employment.

Question 3

Explain how the organisation’s philosophies, structures and strategies can be applied in the workplace through appropriate recruitment, and induction programs.

Answer to question three. Recruitment and Selection; Discuss recruitment and selection techniques. Key words: Appraisal, interviewing, psychometric testing, induction and recruitment sources