Course Description
The aim of this unit is to develop learners' understanding of how the effective strategic management of human resources supports the achievement of organisational objectives in different contexts. Learners will evaluate the contribution of strategic human resource management, and the application of leadership and management theory for organisational benefit.
Course Objectives
The aim of this unit is to develop learners' understanding of how the effective strategic management of human resources supports the achievement of organisational objectives in different contexts. Learners will evaluate the contribution of strategic human resource management, and the application of leadership and management theory for organisational benefit.
Key Topics
- LO1: Understand the role of management of human resources.
- LO2: Be able to create a human resource plan for an organisation.
- LO3: Understand the role of legal and ethical issues in developing human resources policy.
- LO4: Be able to plan develop human resource strategies.
- LO5: Understand HRM approaches within organisations and their relationships with organisational performance.
Course Outline
| Week | Topics |
|---|
| 1 | Strategic Foundations and Value of Human Resource Management |
| 2 | Cross-Functional Synergy and Business Strategy Alignment |
| 3 | Organisational Culture, Structural Design, and Human Systems |
| 4 | Contextual Environmental Scanning and Strategic Demand Forecasting |
| 5 | Strategic Workforce Planning and Talent Deployment |
| 6 | Human Resource Governance, Policy Design, and Legal Compliance |
| 7 | Ethical Stewardship, CSR, and Sustainable Human Capital |
| Midterm | Midterm evaluation |
| 9 | Formulating Comprehensive Strategic HRM Architecture |
| 10 | Strategy Execution, People Analytics, and Performance Metrics |
| 11 | Strategic Evaluation, Governance, and Continuous Organisational Renewal |
| 12 | Applying Strategic Human Resource Management in practice: case studies |
| 13 | Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing |
| 14 | Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement |
| 15 | Review and coursework completion |
| Final | Final assessment and submission |
Learning Outcomes
- LO1 Understand the role of management of human resources.
- 1.1 Critically justify the importance of human resource management in organisations.
- 1.2 Assess the role and purpose of the strategic human resource management function and activities in an organisation.
- 1.3 Evaluate how human resource management is related to other functional areas.
- LO2 Be able to create a human resource plan for an organisation.
- 2.1 Assess the business factors to consider before human resource planning.
- 2.2 Determine human resource requirements in different organisational contexts.
- 2.3 Develop a human resource plan for an organisation.
- LO3 Understand the role of legal and ethical issues in developing human resources policy.
- 3.1 Explain the purpose of human resource policy.
- 3.2 Assess the impact of regulatory and legal requirements on human resource policies in an organisation.
- 3.3 Assess the impact of business ethics, CSR, and sustainability requirements on human resource policies for an organisation.
- LO4 Be able to plan develop human resource strategies.
- 4.1 Critically analyse the impact of an organisational strategy, structure and culture on the management of human resources.
- 4.2 Develop a structured, relevant and comprehensive HR strategy.
- 4.3 Critically monitor the effectiveness of human resources management.
- LO5 Understand HRM approaches within organisations and their relationships with organisational performance.
- 5.1 Critically evaluate the relationships between business strategy and human resource management.
- 5.2 Explain the implementation and measurement of HR approaches using relevant metrics.
- 5.3 Monitor and evaluate a human resource strategy that supports organisational mission, vision, values and objectives.
