Evaluates the link between business strategy and human resources management (HRM). This module enables you to analyse the main theoretical models and approaches to HRM and understand its influence on an organisations corporate goals and objectives.

Module Description

This module aims to analyse:

The major theoretical approaches to the development of corporate and business strategy
The link between business strategy and human resource management
The concept of strategic HRM and its potential contribution to organisational objectives
Strategic issues of flexibility and commitment
Changing employment systems
The influence of organisation culture on HRM and the attainment of organisational objectives
Interventions to achieve change through workplace learning

Module Content

Development of strategic management
Development of HRM
Commitment
Flexibility
Quality
The new industrial relations
The social partnership
Organisation culture
Industrial democracy
Workplace learning

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