Strategic HR Management

Understanding Strategic HRM and ER

1. The goals of HRM and ER, and how they relate to strategy and the process of strategic management

2. Strategic choice/contingent approaches

3. Best practice and resource-based approaches

4. Critical and institutional perspectives

Designing and Implementing strategic HRM and ER initiatives

5. Workforce analysis and planning

6. Managing Employee Voice and representation

7. Designing incentives and reward systems

8. Managing individual performance and commitment

9. Negotiating organisational change

10. Evaluating HRM and ER systems performance

Personal and professional competencies and attributes

11. Evaluating HRM/ER effectiveness

12. Ethics in HRM/ER balancing organisational objectives, professional obligations and personal values.

Upon successful completion, participants will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Identify the key HRM functions and operations;
2. Define, explain, illustrate and reason with the key human resource management concepts;
3. Identify the linkages between HRM functions and operations and organisational strategies, structures and culture;
4. Reflect and comment in a way that demonstrates awareness of the different contexts that impact on the operation of HRM; and
5. Exhibit behaviour and performance that demonstrates enhanced competence in decision-making, group leadership, oral and written communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, planning and team work