Strategic Human Resource Management

Programme Overview

This module is designed to assist managers and entrepreneurs to enhance an organisation’s performance by adopting a strategic approach to the management of its human resources. The overall module aim is to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to align individual and team-based activities with the organisation’s mission and vision and to thus optimise the contribution made by the workforce to the achievement of its long-term ambitions. The module takes a balanced approach to the study of strategic human resource management by synthesising a combination of academic theory and practitioner experiences, drawn from a broad range of operating environments. As such, you will be able to review and evaluate the organisation’s current operating environment; develop frameworks to diagnose workforce-related problems and propose solutions; and anticipate and prepare for uncertain organisational challenges.

Learning Outcomes

1. Develop a strategic approach to human resource management from alternative methods of managing people in an organisation. 
2. Create an overarching framework of human resource management policy to inform the design of subsequent decision-making. 
3. Design a planning framework that will enable the effective acquisition and initial induction of new talent into an organisation. 
4. Design a planning framework that will optimally support the development and enhancement of individual and team-based attitudes, skills, and behaviours within a workplace. 
5. Formulate a process for the retention of talent that is optimally adaptable to anticipated future developments in the organisation.