The assignment:
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Assignment Task 1: [30 marks]-Word Limit 2000 words
Discuss HRM practices in your organization and how it supports the overall organizational performance goals. Critically review and evaluate any HR process in your organization and how it can be improved to meet specific business challenges and overcome them.
How do HRM practices influence organizational behaviour? Identify any two HRM practices and their influence on performance and behavioural outcomes in your current organization. Critically analyze the outcomes of the specific practices and evaluate its effects.
Assignment Task 2: [20 marks] word limit 1500 words
Discuss any 2 leadership styles and critically analyze the advantages and disadvantages of these styles in your industry. Identify the most conducive leadership style to promote performance in your company with discussion and critical reflection on why you think it is so.
Assignment Task 3: [20 Marks] word limit 1500 words
Global Staffing Policies:
In 2012, Etisalat, a telecommunications company based in UAE outsourced the customer service operations to Egypt. Explain the benefits of this HR initiative with respect to the major functions of Human Resource Management.
Assignment Task 4: [30 Marks]
Prepare a power point presentation (limit to10-12 slides total) on any one function of HRM and present it in the class with relevant examples. The presentation will be of the duration of 15 minutes (10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for the Q&A). You will be evaluated on the content, delivery and interaction.
