Using Information in Human Resources

Your CEO has asked each departmental head to undertake a critical review of their systems, processes
and practices as part of a major organisational change agenda. You have been asked to review an area of
HR practice and present a business report to key stakeholders with recommendations for improving
practice. To provide the basis for your report, you have been asked to conduct a critical review of
secondary sources relevant to the area of practice you have chosen. You should include a mix of
narrative and diagrammatic forms, a description of your stakeholders and their needs from this report.
You should:
• Select an area of HR practice and justify your choice
• Undertake a critical review of three secondary sources e.g. research digests, academic and
professional literature, online databases, and key texts relevant to the selected area of practice.
• Summarise the stages of the research process.
• Highlight some of the different primary research approaches and comment on the advantages and
disadvantages of these different approaches.
• Summarise the findings and draw meaningful conclusions from your review of the different