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Human Resource Management for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Assignment - Essay

Overview - Your task is to reflect on disruptive innovation and its potential implications for HR managers. Your essay will form two parts:

Part 1: Discuss an example of disruptive innovation.

Part 2: Provide a critical reflection on how HRM professionals should respond to disruptive innovations.

Learning outcomes -

• Demonstrate a critical and reflective understanding of the importance and challenges of innovation and entrepreneurship in contemporary organisations.
• Critically evaluate, integrate and apply theoretical frameworks to foster and facilitate entrepreneurship in real-world organisational contexts.
• Utilise creative and innovative ability to enhance the entrepreneurial endeavours and organisational innovation through appropriate HR practices.
• Present and generate ideas, concepts and arguments in a logical and coherent manner.

After completion of this assessment you should be able to:

• Define the subject constructs and their various conceptual elements
• Strategise for the potential impact and exploitation of disruptive innovation in the organisation.

Assessment details - Reflect on disruptive innovation and its potential implications for HR managers. Your essay should include two parts:

Part 1 - Identify and desscribe one unique example of disruptive innovation that occurred within the laste decade and discuss why it is characterised as such.

Requirements -

• Use Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation to justify your choice.
• You must not include Airbnb, Kodak, Blockbuster/Netflix or Uber as your example.

Part 2 - Reflect on how you think HRM professionals should respond to the potential threat from disruptive innovations originating from outside the organisation. Furthermore, speculate on the role they can play within the organisation with regard to disrupting the firm from within.