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What is HRM and what does it contribute to the modern organization? Use published research evidence and authoritative studies to inform your answer.

Assignment Question: 

What is HRM and what does it contribute to the modern organization? Use published research evidence and authoritative studies to inform your answer.

Reading Material:
Will find the following texts useful:
• Bratton J. and Gold J. (2012), Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice (5th edn). Basingstoke: Palgrave
• McKenna, E. and Beech, N. (2008) Human Resource Management: A Concise Analysis (2nd ed). London: FT Prentice Hall.
• Banfield, P. and Kay, R. (2008 or 2012) Introduction to Human Resource Management. New York: Oxford University Press

The following texts will also be of value:

• Storey, J (ed) (2007) Human Resource Management: A Critical Text (3rd ed). London: Thomson.
• Boxall, P. and Purcell, J. (2011) Strategy and Human Resource Management (3rd ed). London: Palgrave.
• Boxall, P., Purcell, J. Wright, P. (2007) The Oxford Handbook of HRM. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Legge K (2005), Human Resource Management: Rhetorics and Realities. Basingstoke: Palgrave
• Dowling P et al (2013), International Human Resource Management (6th edn), London: Thomson Learning

Suggested Journals:
• The British Journal of Industrial Relations
• The Human Resource Management Journal
• Employee Relations
• People management
• The Journal of Management Studies
• International Journal of Human Resource Management

In writing your essay it is important that you apply and demonstrate your developing knowledge of HRM. You will be expected to draw on the theoretical and practical insights provided in the HR-related texts/articles to which you have been introduced. You may also supplement your writing with extracts from the press, the internet, etc., but please remember to cite and reference such extracts in accordance with academic practice.

Words: 4000-4500 words