The remaining 30% of your marks will be awarded for your assignment. This is due for submission at the latest on Monday 26th March.

Your task is to write a blog consisting of three separate entries and a total word count of around 1500 – 2000 words.

You are free to write about any topics from across the field of HRM that you find to be interesting and worth exploring. The purpose is for you to explain what you have learned from your studies and to  set out your own ideas and arguments. We expect that you will draw upon the lectures, seminars and, most of all, your own wider reading.

Importantly, this is not an exercise in describing what has been discussed in the lectures, but instead your critical analysis and reflection of your learning about HRM from a good range of sources.

You can use both text and images to convey your learning and thinking about the subjects you write about. The best blogs will draw-upon unique examples (i.e. not ones provided in the lecture) and will demonstrate both depth and breadth of knowledge pertaining to the themes discussed on the module.

We would strongly advise you to work on your blog as you are studying and not to compile it all retrospectively at the end of the course.

Assessment Criteria:

• Topic choice – three distinct subject areas from the field of HRM are discussed effectively
• Research – shows understanding of contemporary human resource management thinking, practice and debates gained from studying the subjects;
• Persuasiveness – demonstrates a capacity to develop and justify original ideas and perspectives; includes a range of original arguments and examples in insightful ways;
• Presentation – is well written and professionally presented throughout; written for its intended audience
• Referencing – demonstrates broad, thoughtful reading from both academic and practitioner sources; appropriate referencing is used following the APA style.