Assignment
Write a five to six page paper in which you:
1. Provide a brief summary, in your own words, of your selected company's overall business strategy. Next, determine the direction you visualize the company growing within the next five to ten years. Hint: Review the common business strategies of Cost Leadership, Differentiation and Focus or Niche on p. 50 of your text.
2. Design a human resource management strategy to support your selected company's business strategy. Explain the competitive advantage of your HRM strategy. Hint: Review the following common human resource management strategies of Loyal Soldier, Bargain Laborer, Committed Expert and Free Agent from previous courses.
3. Develop an HR Scorecard table for your selected company. Include the four dimensions (i.e., financial, customer service, internal process, and learning / growth / sustainability). Next, assess the value of your proposal to the small business in each of these dimensions. Hint: Review the video titled "Building the Human Resources Performance Measurement Scorecard" (4 min 1 s) located at for additional guidance in creating an HR Scorecard.
4. Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment from within the past five years. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.
5. Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements.