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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Formulating Comprehensive Strategic HRM Architecture

SMP808 · Strategic Human Resource Management — Week 9 of 16

CourseSMP808
Week9 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Formulating Comprehensive Strategic HRM Architecture

  1. Translating mission, vision, and core values into human resource strategy
  2. High-performance work systems (HPWS) design
  3. Multi-tier strategy development
  4. Balancing operational stability with strategic agility
  5. HRM CH09--High Performance Work Systems
  6. Mission, Vision, Values: Alignment for HR

What you will be able to do

  • 4.2 Develop a structured, relevant and comprehensive HR strategy.
  • 5.1 Critically evaluate the relationships between business strategy and human resource management.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: develop a structured, relevant and comprehensive HR strategy.

Study materials

Videos

  • HRM CH09--High Performance Work Systems · YouTube · William Obenauer · 25 min · for registered students
  • Mission, Vision, Values: Alignment for HR · YouTube · The HR Hub with Andrea Adams · 21 min · for registered students
  • #03 Strategic Types of Human Resources Management · YouTube · Armin Trost · 38 min · for registered students
  • HR STRATEGY AND PLANNING - HRM Lecture 02 · YouTube · Armin Trost · 67 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
  • Principles of Management, ch. 16: Strategic Human Resource Management · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 608–646 · 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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