This assignment requires you to select a recent or current challenge facing your organization (or an organization you have previously worked in).

Organizational challenge

• Briefly introduce your organization e.g. location, industry, size, history, strategic goals, level of globalization.
• Briefly outline the organizational challenge and its implications for your organization.
  • Explain the specific ways in which the challenge affects your organization.
  • Explain the global implications of the challenge (and whether the challenge itself is global or local in nature).

The strategic role of HRM

• Critically analyse and evaluate the strategic role of HRM in meeting this challenge in the context of a global environment.Include these in your discussion:
  • How HRM operates in your organisation; its function and scope; its current relationship with organisational strategy;
  • How theories of SHRM conceptualise the role of HRM;
  • The role played by HRM in addressing the organisational challenge: what was done; what was not done; outcomes;
  • Critically evaluating the role of HRM using relevant SHRM theory;
  • Critically evaluating the role of HRM in addressing the global implications of the challenge;
  • The scope, and limitations, of HRM operating in a globalised and interdependent context.