MBA8107 Strategic Human Resources Management

This course deals with the ways in which HR Management practices can be linked and applied to strategic thinking of organisations. HRM strategic thinking considers questions such as: What does it mean to be a HR professional? How can we integrate HR concerns into organizational decisions and strategies? How can strategic thinking underpin HRM activities? The course focuses on the way strategies can be formed and enacted in organisations, and on the internal and external environmental contexts from which human resource strategies emerge. 

Course Objectives
The course aims at the achieving objectives:

• To provide students with opportunities to synthesize managerial strategy issues with HRM processes, in a considered and reflective manner.
• To introduce a range of contemporary issues in HRM, and promote strategic human resource management as a new way of thinking about organisations and their stakeholders. 
• To offer the opportunity to enhance students’ skills in organisational analysis, issue selling and strategic thinking - through fieldwork, case studies and seminars.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to:

• Describe and utilise HR strategies from entry, retention, and exit of people management
• Link business strategies with human resource strategies and translating these into operational HR programs and priorities.
• Analyse and engage the values needed by leaders and managers to motivate, inspire and enable their people
• Develop an in-dept knowledge of different perspectives on the relationship between human resource management practices and organisational performance