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HRM
Westminster International College
Module Title: Human Resource Management
Programme: BABS
Semester: Three
Academic Year Period: November 2014 – March 2015
Lecturer: Gobu Nachiappan
Student: Mohamed Ali Thiam
Student ID: 0063EFEF0414
Date of Completion and Submission: 16 February 2015
Submission Method: Online via Turn It In
Assessment Type: An individual presentation and type-written assignment
An individual Assignment of 2000 words (max)

Contents
1. Summary 3
2. Introduction 3
3. Strategies 4
3.1. Attracting and retaining valuable employees 4
3.2. Cutback and layoff 5
3.3. Employees’ loyalty 5
3.4. Commitment to high performance 6
4. Recommendation and conclusion 7
5. References 8

1. Summary
Xerox created the photocopying business in 1949 with the presentation of its model a copier. in 2000, the organization was losing cash and momentum while higher-tech and lower-cost contenders caught market share. At that point another group of senior supervisors drafted a key plan to turn the organization to benefit. Under this new initiative, supervisors at all level confronted troublesome choices about staff, product, and needs, choices that would figure out if Xerox would survive.it is said that the organization utilized cost cutting and the administration refocused the organization on its commitment to quality and on individuals. Xerox 's CEO Anne M. Mulcahy accepted that offering world class items and services needs world class individuals and through the brand trademark, "express yourself", Xerox is a place where ideas of its relative characterize a capacity for advancement and lending workplace. Xerox 's headquarter depends on its HR administration focus. Additionally, HR professional helped guarantee that workers were treated with dignity, and helped them include significant aptitudes through work experience, work assignments and learning opportunity (Pride, Hughes, Kapoor, 2009).
2. Introduction
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the



References: 1. BISHOP, J.W. and SCOTT, K.D., (1997). How commitment affects team performance. HRMagazine 2 3. CAMINITI, S., (2005). The people company. Nyse. Available from http://www.serpentproject.com/assets/pdf/nysemag05_jan_feb.pdf [accessed 27 January 2015] 4 5. Jonshon, L. K., Austin, R., Richard, (2006) The essentials of human resource management. Harvard business school publishing. USA 6 7. Landreth, O., (2014). Put your employees first if you want to succeed. Xerox. Available from http://hrinsights.blogs.xerox.com/2014/08/13/global-put-your-employees-first-if-you-want-to-succeed/#.VMZMNv6UdNN [accessed 26 Jan. 2015] 8 9. Pride, W., Hughes, R., Kapoor, J. (2009) Foundations of business. Cengage learning Inc: USA 10 11. Shein, J. B., (2011) reversing the slide. John Wiley & Sons 12 13. Xerox, (2014). Xerox expands learning portfolio with intrepid learning solution acquisition. Xerox. Available from http://news.xerox.com/news/Xerox-Acquires-Intrepid-Learning-Solutions-learning-services [accessed 1 Feb. 2015]

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