Question 1:

(a) Explain the distinction between personnel management and human resource management.

(b) Provide two definitions of human resource management and discuss the rhetoric's and realities of these definitions.

(c) Describe the contribution that the human resource management function potentially makes to organizational effectiveness,

(d) Discuss the importance of the psychological contract.

Question 2:

a) Show the importance of human resource planning in modern day organisations.

(b) Elaborate on the different models of human resource management and outline the distinctions between these models.