Strategic Human Resource Management

STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

MANAGEMENT 5340

Fall 2011

EXECUTIVE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (EMBA)

Shanghai

Modern human resource management may be viewed as a process of acquisition, development, utilization, and maintenance of a human resource mix (people and positions) to achieve strategic organizational goals and objectives. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of human resource management from theoretical, practical, and empirical viewpoints. Material will be presented and discussed from the perspective of the operating or line manager as well as the human resource specialist. Attention will be devoted to the various contexts of human resource management, basic techniques and methods, and the changing nature of managing human resources. More specifically, our concerns will include human resource and employment planning, employee recruitment and selection, training and development, performance planning and evaluation, compensation administration, organizational career management, structure of the human resource function, and the strategic role of human resource management.

Objectives of the Course:

During the course, the student will hopefully progress toward attainment of the following objectives:

1. Become familiar with the human resource management process (or HR value chain) and its key elements:

a. Organization and human resource goals and strategies

b. Human resource planning and analysis

c. Employee staffing - recruitment and selection

d. Organizational career management - training, performance management and evaluation, and rewards/compensation

e. Employee retention and turnover - psychological contract

2. Understand that human resources are an asset (investment) to be developed rather than a labor cost to be expensed

3. Comprehend the strategic fit of HR and the organization

4. Recognize the applicability of HR practices to organization success

5. Become acquainted with managerial decision-making through the study of HR problem situations

6. Develop greater skill in decision-making, particularly in human resource problem situations through emphasis on:

a. Observing and becoming sensitive to potential problem situations

b. Diagnosing problem situations

c. Identifying and stating a problem(s)

d. Selecting a course of action from a set of alternative HR solutions

e. Implementing and monitoring a chosen course of action

7. Develop a personal philosophy of human resource management that will enable one to perform effectively as a manager

Instructor and Facilitator: David A. Gray, Associate Dean and Professor

College of Business Administration

Contact Information: Office 817-272-3387 Fax 817-272-2073 Email gray@uta.edu

Office Hours: Daytime Hours or 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. weekdays.

Required Text and Study Materials:

A standard text, several HR management cases, and a few exercises will be used in the course. The following text has been selected:

Jeffrey A. Mello, Strategic Human Resource Management, 3rd edition (Southwestern-Thomson Learning, 2011). Web site, http://mello.swcollege.com

ISBN: 0-324-29043-8

Several Harvard and Ivey Business School cases will be used; these are

Harvard Business School Cases

Thomas, Groysberg, and Reavis, Sonoco Products (A): Building a World

Class HR Organization (9-405-009)

Holland, The Portman Hotel Company (9-489-104)

Gittell and O'Reilly, JetBlue Airways (9-801-354)

O'Reilly and Caldwell, Cypress Semiconductor (A) (HR - 8A)

McManess and Sucher, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company (9-601-163)

Burton, DeLong, and Lawrence, Morgan Stanley: Becoming a 'One-Firm'

Firm (9-400-043)

Burton and DeLong, The Firmwide 360o Performance Evaluation Process

at Morgan Stanley (9-498-053)

Ellet, How to Analyze a Case (2449BC)

Harvard cases can be purchased at the educational rate from Harvard Business School Publishing. Contact information is as follows:

Phone: 1-800-545-7685 or 617-783-7600 (outside U.S. and Canada)

Fax: 617-783-7666

Email: custserv@hbsp.harvard.edu

Web: http://caseclassroom.hbsp.harvard.edu

Mail: Harvard Business School Publishing

60 Harvard Way

Boston, MA 02163

Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario

Francesco and Chen, Organizational Transformation in a Taiwanese Company (9A99C035)

Gleave and Golden, FIVE STAR Beer - Pay for Performance (9A98C004)

Yang, Jindi Enterprises: Finding A New Sales Manager (9A903A09)

Grainger, Roaring Dragon Hotel (9B08M004)

Ivey cases can be purchased from Ivey Publishing, Richard Ivey School of