Question 1:
a) Consider the stakeholders who must be taken into account when designing an HRM strategy.
b) How can conflicting demands of various stakeholders be reconciled?
c) Briefly describe the overall role of the HR function and explain how it facilitate change in an organization.
Question 2:
(a) Define corporate and HR strategy.
(b) Integrating HR strategy with corporate strategy assumes a unitarist perspective, a determinist stance toward employees. Discuss the contradictions with what Guest refers to as the ‘internal" and ‘External" fit.