Strategic Importance of HRM
● Resources of an Organization
● Employment Cycle
● Pre-Selection Phase
● Selection Phase
● Post-Selection Phase
● HR role
● Strategic HRM
● Line vs. Staff functions
Strategic Importance of HRM
· Business strategies
· HRM and Competitive Advantage
· HRM practices and issues
Strategic Planning
· Gaining competitive advantage
· Linking planning to competitive advantage
· HRM issues & practices
Strategic Planning
● Human Resources planning
● Relationship to strategic planning
● HR planning process
● Staffing planning process
● Core and flexible workforce
Job analysis and Design
● Linking Job Analysis Practices to Competitive Advantage
● Uses of Job Analysis
● Job Analysis Decisions
● Job analysis design
● Job description
● Job specification
Recruitment
● Recruitment method
● Recruitment constraints
● Evaluation
● Gaining competitive advantage
● Linking recruitment to competitive advantage
● HRM issues & practices
Selection
● Selection sequence
● Selection process
● Substantive Assessment Method
● Discretionary Assessment Methods
● Contingent Assessment Gaining competitive advantage
● Linking selection to competitive advantage
● HRM issues & practices
Training & development of employees
● Gaining competitive advantage
● Linking T&D to competitive advantage
● HRM issues & practices
Training & development of employees
● The instructional process
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● Management development
● The manager’s job
● Strategically oriented T&D
Appraising employee job performance
Gaining competitive advantage, Linking employee appraisal to competitive advantage, HRM issues
& practices, Standards for employee job performance, Types of rating instruments, Designing an
appraisal system
Determining Pay and Benefits
● Gaining competitive advantage
● Linking pay and benefits to competitive advantage
● HRM issues & practice
Implementing Productivity Improvement Programs
● Pay for performance program
● Employee empowerment program
● The manager’s job and duties regarding Productivity Improvement Programs