This week’s topics
Contemporary Challenges in SHRM
- Digital transformation and AI in HR
- Managing remote, hybrid, and gig workforces
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
- Globalisation and ethical HR governance
- Stanford Webinar - Managing the Remote & Hybrid Workplace: Global Insights
- Week 3 : Lecture 8D : HR functions and Competencies in Gig Economy Firms
- Why diversity programs haven't worked – and how to fix them
What you will be able to do
- 4.2 Evaluate contemporary issues affecting Strategic Human Resource Management.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate contemporary issues affecting Strategic Human Resource Management.
Study materials
Videos
- Stanford Webinar - Managing the Remote & Hybrid Workplace: Global Insights · YouTube · Stanford Online · 30 min · for registered students
- Why diversity programs haven't worked – and how to fix them · YouTube · Harvard Kennedy School · 7 min · for registered students
- Dr Jamie Woodcock: The Great Work Reset | Reflections on the Gig Economy · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 3 min · for registered students
- ICAEW Insights In Focus: Managing talent in a hybrid world · YouTube · ICAEW · 34 min · for registered students
- The Uncertain Future of DEI | Cornell Keynotes · YouTube · eCornell · 65 min · for registered students
- Jeremias Prassl on the gig economy · YouTube · OECD · 14 min · for registered students
Further resources
- The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers · Reading · Arxiv, article · for registered students
- Acas: Requesting home or hybrid working · Reading · Other, report · for registered students
- Human Resource Management, ch. 14: International HRM · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 458–506 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
