Understanding about Strategic HRM

1. Conceptual basis of SHRM

2. SHRM at micro and macro level
3. Competencies required for HRM professionals
4. Role of HRM manager in the organization
5. Current challenges in HRM
 Impact of HRM on employee performance

1. Classification of employee performance

2. HRM and high performance work system
3. Role of HRM functions in performance management
4. Importance of performance management in organizational development.
 HRM and knowledge management

1. Challenges face by HRM professional in managing knowledge employees.

2. Basic concept of KM
3. Theories and strategies related to knowledge management
4. KM issues in 21st century
5. Impact of HR policies on KM
 HRM and human capital management

5. Define human capital management

6. Human capital theories
7. Issues related to human capital management in 21st century
8. Measuring human capital
 Ethics in HRM

1. Ethical HRM
2. Types of ethical decision and HRM
3. Ethical framework
4. Ethical issues in HRM in 21st century
 HRM and corporate social responsibility

1. Concept of CSR
2. Functions of CSR
3. Current issues in CSR
4. Basis for developing CSR strategy
 Job Analysis

1. Define job analysis

2. Method of job analysis
3. Job analysis process
4. Components of job analysis
5. Purpose of job analysis
6. Job design define
7. Method of job design
 Staffing

1. Define human resource planning (HRP).

2. Explain the purposes for conducting HRP.

3. Explain the main approaches/techniques used in HR forecasting.

4. Define recruitment and selection

 staffing

1. Identify sources of external recruitment

2. Describe recruitment methods

3. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of external and internal recruitment

4. Describe the selection process

5. Discuss the various types of pre-employment tests

 Training and Development

1. Define the training and development.

2. Explain why training and development are important to organisational performance.

3. Describe the training process.

4. Identify the three types of training needs analysis.

 Training

1. Explain various methods of training.

2. List characteristics of a good trainer.

3. Identify strategies to enhance trainees’ readiness and motivation for learning.

4. Explain Donald Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluating training effectiveness.

 Career development

1. Discuss the career management process.

2. Describe the four approaches for career development.
3. Identify and explain the roles of managers in employee development
 Performance management

1. Define performance management & appraisal.

2. Discuss the stages in performance management.

3. Describe the human factors in performance management.

4. Identify the objectives of performance appraisal.

 performance management

1. Describe the criteria of an effective performance appraisal.

2. Identify who may be responsible for employees’ performance appraisal.

3. Describe the various performance appraisal methods.

4. Identify the problems that might occur in performance appraisal.

 Pay and reward management

1. Define compensation

2. Identify components of compensation

3. Identify determinants of financial compensation

4. Define job evaluation and explain the three common job evaluation methods
 incentives

1. Identify the various types of incentives

2. Identify the categories of benefits

3. Identify the types of non-financial compensation

 employees' rights and discipline

1. Describe employee rights

2. Identify employer rights

3. Describe the situations in which an employment contract can be terminated

4. Identify the types of misconduct

5. Explain discipline and disciplinary actions

6. Identify the purposes of domestic inquiry

 Dynamics of employee relations

1. Define industrial relations.

2. Discuss industrial relation system.

3. Identify the role of trade unions.

4. Discuss collective bargaining and its process.

 employee’s relations

1. Define grievance.
2. Describe grievance procedure.
3. Describe the legal forms of industrial action.
4. Identify the methods of trade dispute settlement.
 Occupational safety and health

1. Define safety and health.

2. Discuss the importance of occupational safety and health.

3. Identify the causes of workplace accidents and illnesses.

4. Discuss the roles and responsibilities of managers, HR professionals, and employees in

promoting workplace safety and health.

5. Discuss various issues of psychosocial.

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION, SMALL GROUP ACTIVITIES AND TEAM WORKING

1. Quality circles
2. TQM
3. Team working on the shopfloor.
4. Beyond the shopfloor work teams
APPRAISING EMPLOYEES

1. The concerns and problems of appraisal

2. Approaches to appraisal interviewing
3. Improving the process of appraisals
4. Developments in appraisal
THE SELECTION DECISION

1. Assessing the selection process

2. The interview: limitations and possible changes
3. Psychological testing: the answer?
4. Management assessment centres
5. Overall effectiveness and strategic selection
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE

1. Organization culture: types, strength and national setting

2. Studying and measuring organizational culture
3. Cultural and organizational change
4. New plants and organizational culture
5. Seeking turnaround in an established organization
6. HRM and organizational change
Assessment tasks, assessment criteria and grading descriptors (one topic for each student)

1) This is an individual based assignment to write a critical literature review on a specific given topic
2) This is an individual based assignment which incorporates A written report of 3000-3500 words
(plus/minus 10%) excluding references and appendices
3) Assignment is to be written in a scientific report format. It is recommended not to use the first-
person name.
4) Structure Requirement - students are reminded work should have a beginning, a middle and an end,
that each paragraph should contain one point which is explained well and reasoned through, and
finally, that paragraphs are linked.
5) Content Requirement - students must demonstrate: [i] knowledge of the subject area; [ii] the ability
to marshal materials into logical and coherent lines of reasoning in a critical and analytical fashion;
[iii] the ability to inform the reader whilst answering the assignment brief.
6) Use the Harvard referencing system to present your references/bibliography.
7) Remember, as in the real world, understanding is only achieved by interpretation of the
analysis undertaken, and it is up to the student to present a well justified and logical
argument in the report. Justification should be made by referring to the relevant literature,
or additional research.
8) Wikipedia references are not considered to be of the required standard and hence should
not be included.
9) Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to
differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Assignment should make no assumptions
about the beliefs or commitments of any reader, should contain nothing which might imply
that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of race, sex, culture or any other
characteristic, and should use inclusive language throughout.
10)student should ensure that writing is free from bias, for instance by using 'he or she',
'his/her' instead of 'he' or 'his', and by making use of job titles that are free of stereotyping
(e.g. 'chairperson' instead of 'chairman' and 'flight attendant' instead of 'stewardess').
11)Divide your assignment into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered
1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just
 refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own
separate line.
12)A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the
Introduction and lay the foundation for further work.
13)Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed either next to the relevant
text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with
their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be sparing in the use of
tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the
article. Please avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells.
14)Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).
Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may
be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the
standard reference style and should include a substitution of the publication date with either
'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the
item has been accepted for publication.
15)Web references, as a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last
accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source
publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the
reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
16) There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References can be in any style
or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/ book title,
chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or
pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged.

17)Finally….Your report should be submitted no later than

12 noon on week 14 (a week before the final exam) . The normal penalty of 10% per
working day late will be applied to late submissions