Evaluate the role of the line manager in the resourcing process.

1) Special instructions:
Essay must NOT BE LESS than 900 words and NOT MORE than 1,100 words.
As a guide, essay must have at least 12 academic in-text citations and corresponding end-of-text references in order to ensure you cover the topics appropriately.

2) Your portfolio MUST be organised and submitted as follows:
(a) Essay in the portfolio, including reference list for the essay
(b) At the front of the portfolio, you should have an index, which indicates which of the questions you have chosen to answer
(c) All portfolio entries must use UK English

3) Core textbook (which we have been using for the whole year):
Carbery, R. and Cross, C. (2013) Human Resource Management, A Concise Introduction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan

4) Textbooks:
Torrington, D., Hall, L., Taylor, S. and Atkinson, C. (2011). Human Resource Management, 8th edn. London, Prentice Hall (available as e-book through LIS)

Bratton, J. and Gold, J. (2012) Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice, 5th edn

5) Journals and magazines:
– Employee Relations
– Human Resource Management Journal
– Industrial Relations Journal
– People Management

6) I do not mind what will be the conclusion and what are your arguments writing this piece of paper. The most important thing for me is to get a good piece.