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Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

HRM and other functional areas

SL703 · Strategic Human Resource Management — Week 3 of 16

CourseSL703
Week3 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

HRM and other functional areas

  1. Evaluation of human resource management contribution, e.g. characteristics, importance, techniques
  2. The changing patterns of effective human resource management; the effect of globalisation; the use of IT
  3. Organisational structure theories: Handy, Mintzberg, Weber
  4. HRM impacts and structure forms: product based, functional, divisional, geographical; matrix: centralisation, decentralisation

What you will be able to do

  • 1.3 Evaluate how human resource management is related to other functional areas.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: The nature and importance of human resource management
  • Week 2: The role and purpose of strategic HRM
  • Week 3: HRM and other functional areas
  • Week 4: Business factors and human resource requirements
  • Week 5: Developing a human resource plan
  • Week 6: The purpose of human resource policy
  • Week 7: Regulatory and legal requirements and HR policy
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Business ethics, CSR and sustainability in HR policy
  • Week 10: Strategy, structure and culture in the management of human …
  • Week 11: Developing a structured and comprehensive HR strategy
  • Week 12: Monitoring the effectiveness of human resource management
  • Week 13: HRM approaches, business strategy and HR metrics
  • Week 14: Leadership and an HR strategy that supports mission, vision…
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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