This should include such things as strategic goals and corporate, competitive, and functional strategies. In preparing your plan, make sure to show the main strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats the college faces, and which prompted you to develop your particular strategic plans.

3-8. Using the Internet or library resources, review the annual reports of two companies. Bring to class examples of how those companies say they are using their HR processes to help the company achieve its strategic goals. (3marks) 3-9. Interview an HR manager and write a short report on The Strategic Roles of the HR Manager at XYZ Company.

3-10. Using the Internet or library resources, bring to class and discuss at least two examples of how companies are using an HR scorecard to help create HR systems that support the companys strategic aims. Do all managers seem to mean the same thing when they refer to HR score- cards? If not, how do they differ?

3-11. In teams of several students, choose a company for which you will develop an outline of a strategic HR plan. What seem to be this companys main strategic aims? What is the firms competitive strategy? What would the strategic map for this company look like? How would you summarize your recommended strategic HR policies for this company?

3-12. Appendices A and B at the end of this book (pages 614634) list the knowledge someone studying for the HRCI (Appendix A) or SHRM (Appendix B) certification needs to have in each area of human resource management (such as in Strategic Management and Work- force Planning). In groups of several students, do four things: (1) review Appendix A and/or B; (2) identify the material in this chapter that relates to the Appendix A and/or B required knowledge lists; (3) write four multiple-choice questions on this material that you believe would be suitable for inclusion in the HRCI and/or the SHRM; and (4) if time permits, have someone from your team post teams questions in front of the class,