Module manager: Yujie Hu
Email: y.hu2@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is approved as a discovery module
This module explores human resource management and the connections between HRM and business strategy with extensive use of relevant research evidence. It will enable you to examine models of strategic HRM, look at the connections between HRM and performance and will consider a wide range of HRM practices, including recruitment and selection, training, pay and reward, performance management and redundancy.
This module aims to give students the tools to explore the changing context and process of human resource management and development within contemporary work organisations by introducing models of strategic HRM and the potential and actual connection between HRM and performance. Specifically, it provides critical appraisal of human resource management practices in the key areas.
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Evaluate the practical application of theoretical models relating to human resource management and development
- Critically assesses the main problems and debates associated with making HRM strategic
- Analyse contemporary issues in strategic HRM relating to choices in employment systems, international HRM and expatriate management
- Recognise the changing context and process of human resource management and development within contemporary work organisations (including the changing role of the HR professional and outsourcing debates)
- Identify models of strategic HRM and the potential and actual connection between HRM and performance
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Subject Specific
- Deploy appropriately the analytical, critical thinking and intellectual skills required to solve human resource management problems
Indicative content:
Introduction to SHRM/Context of HRM
HR and Performance: Adding value, Metrics, and High Performance work systems
Recruitment and selection
Training and learning at work
Reward management
Changing roles and responsibilities for HRM and HR outsourcing
Performance management
Restructuring and Redundancy
Choices in the design of employment systems/temporary employment
International HRM/Managing Expatriates
Participation and involvement
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Private study hours | 181 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 19 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
This could include a variety of activities, such as reading, watching videos, question practice and exam preparation..
Your teaching methods could include a variety of delivery models, such as face-to-face teaching, live webinars, discussion boards and other interactive activities. There will be opportunities for formative feedback throughout the module.
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 3.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 100 | |
The resit for this module will be 100% by 3 hour examination.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 9/20/2024
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