Course overview
In this course, students will develop knowledge about the central themes and diverse views within strategic human resource management and skills in identifying appropriate strategic HRM responses to organisational challenges. Introduction to stakeholder views on strategy; implications of the contingency, best-practice approaches to HR policy and practice, and the resource-based view of the firm on organisational HR decision-making; best-practice approaches to HR policy and practice; resource-based view of the firm; industrial organisation; developmental vs instrumental approaches; types of strategic fit; issues in business-HR integration; assessment of environmental and organisational context; relationship between operational HR activities and strategic HRM outcomes; measurement of HR performance; workforce planning: recruitment and retention; management of change.
Course learning outcomes
- Apply operational HR techniques towards the achievement of organisational HR and business strategic goals.
- Apply concepts and recent innovations in HR theory and practice towards the achievement of organisational goals.
- Analyse an organisation's business and HR environmental context.
- Evaluate an organisation's HR-business integration and the sophistication of its HR system.
- Evaluate the organisation's internal, external and environmental fit.
- Create an appropriate set of HR strategies and practices that enable the organisation to fully implement its business strategy.
- Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills in the context of the Human Resource Management discipline: i) Self Management (advanced level); ii) Problem Solving (advanced level); and iii) Written Communication (advanced level).
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 23091
Section LE01
Size 30
Available 27
Class number 23092
Section TU01
Size 30
Available 27
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 55144
Section LE01
Size 30
Available 26
Class number 55145
Section TU01
Size 30
Available 26
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