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Model answer P4: HR planning

August 2009

To help you revise, Velocity publishes regular model answers to practice questions. This one is for P4 (PDF 20KB).

To answer the question, you need to read the article on HR planning in a recession (PDF 116KB) from the Study Notes section of the July-August issue of Financial Management magazine. This article was written by Alan Marsden.

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