HRMG544

This paper provides students with the opportunity to evaluate and discuss the latest research in human resource management strategy. This focus is on examining theories of internal fit, which address how and why human resource practices link together to increase business performance, and external fit, which address how and why human resource practices link with finance, marketing, and production (the broader organisational strategy) to increase business performance. Along these lines, students are encouraged to think about archetypal human strategies for pay, staffing, and employment relations. This paper provides students with a 'big picture' view of how HR practices, and under what conditions, can be combined together into coherent strategies to influence either an organisation's human capital or the behaviour of its employees, with the ultimate aim of positively influencing organisational performance.