G4S has been a real disappointment when it comes to its participation as one of the key security companies in the London Olympics 2012. Two of the major issues that occurred were a decline in the supply of security guards because of which 1200 military personnel had to be deployed on site (Chan, 2012, p. 22). The second issue was that there were rumors in the media that the security guards provided by G4S were cheating on the tests to run x-ray scanners for the Olympic Games. The paper discusses the shortcomings in the contemporary HRM practices ...