Please provide written answers to each of the following three tasks:

1 Write a short briefing paper for your Chief Executive Officer assessing the current and likely future features of the state of the labour market. The CEO is particularly interested to know whether conditions in the labour market are likely to tighten or loosen in the future and what must be done to ensure future skills needs are met.

2 Your manager reads an article in which the term 'employer of choice' is used. She is keen that your organisation seeks to achieve employer-of-choice status. You are asked to explain what the major advantages would be and what needs to be done in order to achieve this objective. Your answer should make reference to organisations that have positioned themselves as employers of choice.

3 Staff turnover in your organisation is higher than it could be and you have been asked to set out a business case for investing some resources in reducing staff turnover and to identify and explain which measures aimed at improving employee retention would be most appropriate to adopt and why. Evidence to be Produced A report of 3000 words, together with a list of cited References and a separate Bibliography of sources consulted but not specifically mentioned in preparing each answer (but these should be excluded from the word count).