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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Strategic Workforce Planning and Talent Deployment

SMP808 · Strategic Human Resource Management — Week 5 of 16

CourseSMP808
Week5 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Strategic Workforce Planning and Talent Deployment

  1. Quantitative and qualitative workforce reconciliation
  2. Strategic succession planning and pipeline architecture
  3. Flexible working models and contingent labour integration
  4. Formulating risk-managed resourcing plans
  5. HR STRATEGY AND PLANNING - HRM Lecture 02
  6. HR Planning: How to Apply Human Resource Planning in Practice [2025]

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Determine human resource requirements in different organisational contexts.
  • 2.3 Develop a human resource plan for an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: determine human resource requirements in different organisational contexts.

Study materials

Videos

  • HR STRATEGY AND PLANNING - HRM Lecture 02 · YouTube · Armin Trost · 67 min · for registered students
  • HR Planning: How to Apply Human Resource Planning in Practice [2025] · YouTube · AIHR - Academy to Innovate HR · 10 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Human Resource Management, ch. 2: Developing and Implementing Strategic HRM Plans · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 36–63 · for registered students
  • CIPD: Flexible and hybrid working practices in 2023 · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 11.6: Talent development and succession planning · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 315–326 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Strategic Foundations and Value of Human Resource Management
  • Week 2: Cross-Functional Synergy and Business Strategy Alignment
  • Week 3: Organisational Culture, Structural Design, and Human Systems
  • Week 4: Contextual Environmental Scanning and Strategic Demand Fore…
  • Week 5: Strategic Workforce Planning and Talent Deployment
  • Week 6: Human Resource Governance, Policy Design, and Legal Complia…
  • Week 7: Ethical Stewardship, CSR, and Sustainable Human Capital
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Formulating Comprehensive Strategic HRM Architecture
  • Week 10: Strategy Execution, People Analytics, and Performance Metri…
  • Week 11: Strategic Evaluation, Governance, and Continuous Organisati…
  • Week 12: Applying Strategic Human Resource Management in practice: c…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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