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Assignment - Summative Assessment
Assignment Brief: The summative assignment for this module is a 3,000 word (+/- 10 per cent) individual report on the HR strategy of a (multi-national) company. The suggestion is EasyJet aviation company.
Using theories and models from the Strategic Management module (Semester One), you must first assess the available secondary data on your chosen company (e.g. financial reports, annual reports to shareholders, business press, specialist trade journals, published academic papers, etc.) to determine the company's business strategy. Based on this information, you should outline how and why a particular configuration of HR policies and practices might support the organisation's business strategy. Using any available secondary data on the organisation's actual HR policies and strategies, evaluate whether and to what extent current HR policies support the business strategy, and undertake an evaluation of how and why you might recommend changes to the organisation's current HR strategy.
Based on strategic HRM theory (most notably theories of 'best fit') it should be relatively straightforward to determine the 'most appropriate' HR strategy for the organisation in question. However, as information on the organisation's actual HR strategy, policies and practices may be harder to come by (depending on the company selected), this might be as far as some students will be able to take their analysis - in this scenario, you will need to focus on why particular HR policies and practices are 'most likely' to support/drive the organisation's business strategy, drawing on empirical evidence from the literature (e.g. similar firms in the same/similar industry) and relevant theory. Where data is available on the organisation's HR strategy/policies/practices, students should undertake an assessment of any 'gaps' between best practices/best fit and actual HR policies/practices, and then critically evaluate why such differences exist and to what effect.
Start your research by reading Chapter 3 of the core text by Boxall and Purcell (2015) where the authors discuss HR strategies in different contexts (manufacturing and services) and types of firm (multi-divisional and multi-national).
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