Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has evolved from the field of Human Resource Management. Describe SHRM. Compare and contrast it with traditional HRM. Identify the barriers to the development and expansion of SHRM. Wherever possible, provide examples from your work organisation or an organisation with which you are familiar.

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1. An explanation/description of SHRM, as well as consideration of its roots in HRM; and how this transition took place/evolved as well as ways in which the two are similar and dissimilar.
2. Identify barriers to the development and expansion of SHRM
3. The importance of embedding responses at 1 and 2 above, to your workplace or an organisation with which you are familiar.

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SHRM refers to the mode of planning that ensures an organization integrates all its human capital in the organization to ensure that it meets its targets (Kaufman, 2015). The organization takes into consideration how it handles its employees and improves on it to ensure that they get the best out of the employees. Companies have always sought ways to make themselves competitive and profitable, and because of that, the HRD had to change…