ILRHR 8201 - Strategic Human Resource Management

Fall. 2.5 credits. Letter grades only.

Enrollment limited to: students enrolled in the Executive Master of Human Resource Management.

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The primary goal of this course is to help HR professionals better understand their business strategy, and to explore the ways that the management of human capital can help the company achieve its strategic objectives. The course provides a review of business strategy and HR strategy as well as how to analyze linkages among the two. In addition, it examines metrics that can be used to evaluate the alignment and effectiveness of HR systems. Finally, the course provides students with the insights and tools they need to work successfully as human resource management consultants, both as HR managers operating within a firm to improve organizational effectiveness and as external consultants providing project support to an internal HR organization.