STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

For the Session Long Project, you need to create your own capstone project that you can study extensively that would turn you into an HR specialist. You’ve had extensive study in the field of HRM. What is it that you would like to be able to claim to be expert at when you’ve completed your concentration?

SLP Assignment Expectations

Identify an HR topic that you feel you would like to study in-depth for the SLP (it may or may not be one of the topics covered in this course). Select a paper topic that really focuses in on some aspect of an HR function in the private sector. For example, the topic of compensation is too broad. Instead, you may want to study the role of employee wellness programs in bringing down health insurance costs. This is a focused statement calling for a specific, well-researched response.

Explain why this aspect of HR is important to the practice of HR and to your own career.

Describe how you will go about studying this topic bridging the terminology, theory, academic research, and practice in the private sector.

Turn in this 3-page paper by the module due date.

Required Material

Begin your readings in Strategic HRM by looking at a compilation of definitions.

HRM Guide.co.uk has a great set of readings to more fully appreciate the dynamics of Strategic HRM. You can go to their main page (linked above), or click on the following sub-sections:

Introduction and people strategies

Forming HR strategies, Business Goals, Strategy Formulation

Translating Strategy into Action, The reality of HR strategy

Change Strategies and Restructuring

Optional Material

NOTE: Please read the book on screen only and DO NOT check it out for extended use. Multiple students may view the book simultaneously, but if you check it out, it will not be available to anyone else while it is checked out to you!

Abang, E., & Abang, O. (2009). Strategic integration of human resource management practices :Perspectives of two major Japanese electrical and electronics companies in Malaysia. Cross Cultural Management, 16(2), 197-214.

Anonymous. (2009, March). Staying Strategic in a Changing Economy. HR Focus, 86(3), 3-4.

Lawler, E., & Boudreau, J.. (2009). What Makes HR a Strategic Partner? People and Strategy, 32(1), 14-22.

Wattanasupachoke, T. (2009). Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance: A Study of Thai Enterprises. Journal of Global Business Issues, 3(2), 139-148.