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3

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Questions

1 

How is HRM delivered?

2 

What is HRM architecture?

3 

What is an HR system?

4 

What are the key HR practices?

5 

What is the HR delivery model?

6 

What is the ‘three-legged stool’ model for 

organizing the HR function?

  7 

What are the main roles of HR  

professionals?

  8 

What are the key HR competency domains  

or areas identified by Brockbank and his 

colleagues?

  9 

What does professionalism in HR involve?

10 

What is the HR role of line managers?

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