This article about the 2002 Trades Union Congress points to a number of elements within the context of HRM that threaten ultimately to affect HRM policies and practices within many organisations.

Identify them, and develop a systems map to help you examine their likely influences upon the HRM of an organisation. (If you are working in a group, split in two, one half looking at this from the perspective of an HR director of a large private sector organisation, and the other from that of an HR director of a public sector organisation.

Compare the two models. Are there differences between them? Why?)