Master in International Human Resources Management Assignment 1 You are the Human Resource Director at a company that has decided to adopt a \"cost leadership\" competitive strategy. Its main goal is to increase its sales by 30% within 1 year. Currently you have forty salespeople. Five of them are going to retire within 3 months. The others have attended their last training course (a 2 days course on sales techniques - basic) four years ago. Considering that strategy, business goal and workforce situation, you are required to prepare a HRM plan containing: 1. an introductory description of the link between your organization's business strategy and your HRM strategy; 2. your employment planning and forecasting strategy; 3. your recruitment and selection activities; you will also prepare a job description and job specification for the profile(s) that you think you should hire; 4. the test(s) that you would use employee selection; 5. the way in which you are going to interview the candidates explaining: type(s) of interview types of questions, with examples 6. the training process and training methods that you will adopt for the newly hired employee(s); 7. the performance appraisal system and tools that you will utilize; 8. the total reward package for the employee(s) that you will decide to hire. 9. a comprehensive approach to retaining employees. Please justify all your choices. 1