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Assignment -

PART 1: Essay

Attempt all the questions below. Explain comprehensively your answers (with introduction, body and conclusion) -

1. Since its inception, Human Resource Management is concerned with the people dimension in management and has certainly evolved from just being what was originally known as Personnel Management. In this regard, compare and contrast HRM with Personnel Management in terms of:

1. Focus

2. Employee Satisfaction

3. Approach

4. Job Allocation

5. Aim

(750 Words)

2. Miller and Friesen (1984) contended that organizations tend to move in a linear sequence of five stages, otherwise known as the Business Life Cycle, consisting of five phases.

1. Explain the 5 phases using an industry example.

2. Using the same industry example, when product / business reaches the 3rd and the 4th phases and assuming that there is a proper HR, how would the effectiveness of doing HR be affected using the 8-box model of Paul Boselie? (500 Words)

3. According to the Economist (2015), the advent of machine learning, in which computers teach themselves tasks and rules by analyzing large sets of data will surely lead to large-scale worker dislocation and will eliminate wide swaths of white-collar workers and that many jobs currently performed by humans will be substantially taken over by robots or digital agents by 2025.

1. How would Upskilling and Reskilling help the employees from losing their jobs?

2. Relating this to the study conducted by the British Council in 2018, give the two (2) skills that potential employees must acquire and/or nurture and are considered the foundations of future jobs in the UAE as its economy grows. Why? Justify your answer. (500 Words)

PART II: Scenario

Analysis using conceptual and theoretical frameworks. Attempt all the questions below. Explain comprehensively your answer. (1000 Words).

Family Businesses run by relying on the heir apparent. The companies do not have to go through the ordeal of finding a deserving candidate who would run the institution successfully. However, the situation was different for Carlson companies, a successful travel management company in the US, who did not have any successor to take over the reins.

Discuss your solution using:

1. Some of the principles from Fayol's Elements of Administrative Theory.

2. Succession Planning.

3. Build, Buy, or Borrow Strategy Mix.