This week’s topics
Cross-Functional Synergy and Business Strategy Alignment
- Universalist, contingency, and configurational perspectives of SHRM
- Interfunctional alignment across finance, operations, and marketing
- Dismantling functional silos
- Strategic value chain integration
- Introduction to Business & Corporate Strategy; Integrating HR strategies with Business Strategy.
- Week 03: Lecture 12: Interface between Operations & Finance
- Michigan Model: The hard approach to human resource management
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Evaluate how human resource management is related to other functional areas.
- 5.1 Critically evaluate the relationships between business strategy and human resource management.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate how human resource management is related to other functional areas.
Study materials
Videos
- Introduction to Business & Corporate Strategy; Integrating HR strategies with Business Strategy. · YouTube · MBA Planet · 27 min · for registered students
- Michigan Model: The hard approach to human resource management · YouTube · Galton College · 20 min · for registered students
Further resources
- MIT OpenCourseWare 15.660 Strategic HR Management (Spring 2003) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
- Human Resource Management, ch. 2: Developing and Implementing Strategic HRM Plans · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 36–63 · for registered students
- Mastering Strategic Management, ch. 4: Managing Firm Resources · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 101–134 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
