Applied Assignment 1

Analyze the Case Study for Competitive Strategy at Sportsman Shoes on page 24 of your textbook. Prepare a paper answering the following questions:

• • Following Sportsman’s shift in competitive strategy, what are some considerations for the company’s human resource management practices?
  • What kind of challenges do you think that Sportsman’s faces specifically in the area of compensation?

Support your analysis with at least two recent scholarly sources to substantiate your insights.

• • The analysis should be presented in APA format.
  • The analysis should be 3-5 pages in length, excluding the title page, abstract and references.
  • The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in the Start Here module.

Submit this assignment to the Assignment box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment box is linked to Turnitin.)