Introduction According to Wood and Brotherton (2008, p.440), in the modern world, there is increasing competition in different industries. This has resulted from globalization, and the adoption of modern technologies. The intensifying competition has forced companies to develop strategies to sustain their survival. As such, strategic human resource management has been one of the areas where companies have been forced to improve competitiveness. Various challenges have been experienced in the field of strategic human resource management. For instance, change management has been a significant challenge to the manager because the business world has been turbulent. Many changes have been happening, and keeping in touch with new business aspects being introduced has been a considerable challenge to many companies in the market. The application of technology has also been a serious challenge in developing strategies to manage organizations. In addition, high employee turnover has been experienced in organizations. The challenges in the management of human resources have caused the development of strategic human resource management in organizations (Information Resources Management Association International Conference, & Khosrowpour, 1991, p. 149). This assignment is a discussion on the topic of Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM). Of main concern, is how strategic HRM can help organisations face the challenges of the future as well as strategies for managing change. The discussion achieves this through the use of the hospitality industry. It looks at contemporary issues, which can be challenges to the industry, why the issues are a challenge and how strategic HRM can be used to address the mentioned challenges. The challenges to be discussed include technology, the threat of terrorism, human resources (staffing), marketing and economic challenges. The discussion begins with a brief overview of the concepts of organisation, strategic human resource management and organisational change. It then moves to tackle the challenges facing the hospitality industry and how strategic HRM can be used to overcome the challenges. Aim and Objective The aim of this assignment is to explore the aspect of strategic human resource management. The objective of the assignment is to explore the challenges facing the hospitality industry as well as how the HR officials can overcome the challenges. The objective will be achieved through articulating the issues which are challenges to HR in the hospitality industry with the possible solutions to overcoming them. Definition of terms An organisation is a group of people who work together with coordinated efforts to achieve certain objectives or goals. Organisational goals and objectives are of various categories, and it is this variation of goals and objectives which classify organisations into three main categories namely profit making, service based and social responsibility based organisations (Murray, Poole, and Jones, 2006. p.45). Service based organisations may be profit making or not profit making or both. Service based organisations make a profit through providing certain services to people. The same organisations may offer services for free or as a corporate social responsibility. When offered for free, services are usually paid for through charity by donor organisations. For exampl