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GSB739 Strategic Human Resource Management

Updated: 19 November 2010
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Trimester 1 Off Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites candidature in GradCertMgt or GradCertHRM or GradDipMgt or MAdminLead or MBA or MBusRes or MBusResHons or MCom or MEdAdmin or MLead or MODSHRM or MStratOrgDev or MTrngDev
Co-requisites None
Restrictions MBA739
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Theresa Smith-Ruig (tsmith24@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

The emphasis in this unit is on advances in human resource management. Particular stress is placed on the acquisition of skills necessary for the development, analysis and critical evaluation of human resource management procedures and their outcomes. The unit examines a wide variety of issues and skills involved in the optimisation of human performance. The aim of the unit is to give students the necessary critical skills for the development, implementation and evaluation of new and existing human resource programs.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Human Resource Management
ISBN: 9781442517981
Hartel, C. and Fujimoto, Y., Pearson Australia 2nd ed. 2010
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 50% 3500
Assessment Notes
Essay
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1-8
Assignment 2 50% 3500
Assessment Notes
Essay
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1-8

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate the knowledge and skills that are important for the understanding and management of human resource issues;
  2. demonstrate that they have a good critical base on which to build skills needed for HR management;
  3. take on the challenge of the expanding role that HR managers are being asked to fill as proactive and key players in the effective management of organisations;
  4. develop, implement, evaluate and cope with new and existing HRM programs, with due regard to the limitations of our current understanding of human nature.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
All areas of the discipline are taught, practised through real world applications and assessed throughout the unit. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Organisation and communication skills are taught. They are assessed in all assignments and practised in all assessment tasks. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
Specific Global HR topics are taught, practised in real world applications and through the assessments. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
this is taught through strategic HR topics and assessed and practised in assessment tasks. 		True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
This is taught through specific topics covering the learning organisation and the strategic application of learning, and is assessed. 		True True True
6 Problem Solving
Students must solve organizational HR issues through strategic planning and the use of a range of HR metrics. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Specific topic areas and how they relate to real world organisational contexts are taught, assessed and practised through the real world application of HR theory. 		True True True
8 Team Work
HR organisational assessment focuses on the link between individual, group and organisational contexts. This is assessed through demonstrated group analysis using HR models focusing on group dynamics in job and organizational design. 		True True True
   

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