MGT2003 Strategic Human Resource Management (FOBUS)

Semester 2 (ONC)Toowoomba (EXT)Toowoomba

Units 1.0 (Human Resource Management) Band 2

Students are required to have access to a personal computer, e-mail capabilities and Internet access to USQConnect. Current details of computer requirements can be found at http://www.usq.edu.au/business/aboutfob.htm

Synopsis

The relationship between organizational strategy and human resource strategy is important for building the overarching strategic purpose and strength of an organization. This strength and purpose is built through the contributions of human effort placed into work and the resulting outputs of that work. The importance of being able to understand the nature and level of quality in the output of work and then measure it in terms of its contribution to the strategic needs of the organization is an important part of managers' work. Having had the opportunity in other courses to make a study of the broad spectrum of principles, functions and practices related to managing the human resources of an organisation, this course builds on existing knowledge to take a strategic perspective of the human dimension of organisations. The emphasis falls on how to integrate human resource and general strategic and management decision-making and on the interplay between various organisational variables and human resource management. Students' knowledge, understanding and insight into the long term choices to be made by organisations in relation to people management is developed to enable them to contribute to the formulation of appropriate strategies and the drafting of relevant policy principles. The socio-economic context as well as other contextual forces and variables are explored in relation to strategic human resource issues. The interplay between human resource management and business and general organisational performance is explored and the implications of the emergence of new organisational forms and relationships for people management are studied. Building organisational capability through human capital is a key theme running through the course.