Contemporary Issues in HRM Assessment: Position Paper
Generate support on a controversial issue: Convince the audience of senior managers, that your opinion is valid and defensible.
Choose one of the following topics:
1. Performance management is a waste of time and needs to be reinvented
2. The use of artificial intelligence in HRM is beneficial to achieving organisational outcomes
3. Social media is an effective tool for recruitment
4. Other topics as negotiated with the lecturer
Your task
1. Validate your position with authoritative references
- Preferably from A grade journals
- For 2000 word paper expect Minimum of 8-10 journal articles
- 8 will get you a pass (provided rest of paper meets pass standard)
2. Examine the strengths and weaknesses of your position
3. Identify and refute counterclaims against your position - i.e. What do the researchers say for and against your position?
4. Evaluate possible solutions and recommend a course of action
5. Use examples to demonstrate your ideas and concepts.
Writing style -
- Use formal academic writing
- Write in full sentences using academic writing style
- Write in 3rd person