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Topics covered

• Introduction
• HR and the organisation
• Employment life-cycle from entry to exit
• Recruitment and Selection
• The employment relationship
• Performance and reward
• HRS contemporary trends and challenges

Learning outcomes

By completing this module, you will be able to:

• identify, describe and apply a range of relevant approaches to deal with key strategic HRM issues.
• explain the need to undertake, and the benefits and challenges of, effective human resource planning.
• compare and contrast strategic approaches to recruitment, selection, development, rewards and employee exit (including consideration of a range of demographic, social, technological and regulatory trends).
• identify effective approaches to developing employee engagement and to ensuring positive employer/employee relations (including consideration of a range of demographic, social, technological and regulatory trends).
• analyse HRM practices within their own/case organisations and make suggestions for improvement.
• review the respective roles of (and dynamics between) HR practitioners and other key stakeholders (both within and without the organisation) in the delivery of HR practices throughout the employment life-cycle.

Assessment

​One two-hour unseen written examination.​

Essential reading

• Boxall P, Purcell J and Wright P (2007) The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Torrington D, Hall L, Taylor S and Atkinson, C (2011) Human Resource Management (8th Edition): Harlow: FT/Prentice Hall.