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Questions

  6 

What is the essence of the philosophy of 

HRM?

  7 

What is resource-based theory?

  8 

What is the significance of contingency theory?

  9 

What are the key reservations made by 

commentators about the early version of 

HRM?

10 

What is the position of HRM today?

1 

What is HRM?

2 

What was the main message of the Harvard 

framework?

3 

What was the main message of the matching 

model?

4 

What are the goals of HRM?

5 

What is the difference between hard and soft 

HRM?

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