Description

You will use five peer-reviewed journal articles to develop a cohesive understanding of current strategic human resources planning trends to write a literature review. The literature review will answer the following question, What do high performing organizations do differently? You will develop a clear synthesis of your research to present current trends, strategies, global impacts, high-performance workforce, employee engagement, and leadership practices that are relevant in today's evolving Human Resources Department.

Rationale

This assignment will evaluate the following course learning outcomes (CLO):

1. Evaluate business strategies including how they influence the human resources management function and its activities.
2. Analyze the implications of strategic business decisions on human resources practices.
3. Critique the different approaches that can be used to develop an HR Strategy.
4. Analyze employment relationships.

What is a Literature Review?

A literature review is an extensive summary of the current research on a particular topic. Think of it as a clear and impactful story that describes the background, the current research, the applications and challenges, the future of a particular topic through critically analyzing the literature. The topic cannot be too specific or too broad but must focus on a defined research question that can be discussed using several sources.

Key Skills for Writing a Literature Review

1. Effectively perform literary searches for peer-reviewed publications.
2. Efficiently summarize the key theories, themes, and concepts of peer-reviewed journal publications.
3. Determining areas that are agreed and disagreed, on by authors, as well as gaps in the literature.
4. Demonstrate proper writing and APA referencing.

Directions

Summarizing information is a crucial component of writing a literature review. Through the process of compiling a review, the goal will be to summarize and combine information from multiple sources. This allows the review to become organized by topic, not by a journal article, and information from many articles will be used to describe a particular topic. It is important when you begin writing your literature review not to allow it to become a series of mini-reviews of various papers linked together in one longer paper. Instead, you must be able to link information from different articles together to fully provide a summary of a complete topic.

Research Focus

1. You will conduct your research based on the following question - What do high-performing organizations do differently?
2. You will use research articles regarding strategic human resources planning, specifically touching on the following topic areas:
   • the importance of HR strategy,
   • global trends impacting HR,
   • high-performing workforce,
   • key drivers of employee engagement and how HR professionals contribute to positive engagement outcomes, and
   • effective management and leadership practices.

Writing Requirements and Paper Format

• Your paper will be 5 to 7 pages in length.
• You will use five (5) peer-reviewed articles as it pertains to the topic What do high performing organizations do differently?

The information below provides a guideline for how to structure your literature review.