2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS5761M Strategic HRM and Talent Management
15 creditsClass Size: 65
Module manager: Paul Simpson
Email: P.Simpson@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
Module replaces
LUBS 5760MThis module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
This module aims to equip participants with contemporary thinking and conceptual insights from HR theory and research as well as practical approaches and techniques for key HR processes such as selection, performance management, training and development and reward. Participants will apply theoretical perspectives and practical knowledge to analysis of real-life problems with which contemporary organisations have to deal.Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Explain the theory and practice of strategic HRM, and the role of the HR manager within strategic decision making
- Critically evaluate the potential for HR to impact upon performance, and the realities of the HR-performance relationship
- Recognise the potential and limitations of big data in strategic HRM
- Evaluate the role of talent management within an integrated approach towards managing the employment cycle
- Extend the concept of talent management to a comparative context and in multi-national firms
- Relate concepts from strategic HRM and talent management policy and theory to their own experiences of work in organisations
Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Use knowledge for effective problem solving and decision making
Subject Specific
- Apply cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis to evaluating the main theoretical models of HRM
Syllabus
Indicative content
Masterclasses (interactive lectures):
Strategic resourcing and recruitment
Selection decision making
Scorecards and performance management
Developing talent
Lecture and seminar series:
Strategic approaches to HRM
People and performance, big data and high performance work systems
Global talent management and strategic HRM
Diversity, ethics and employee voice
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Case Study | 3 | 2.00 | 6.00 |
| Interactive Lecture | 4 | 3.00 | 12.00 |
| Group learning | 0 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Lecture | 7 | 1.50 | 10.50 |
| Seminar | 7 | 1.50 | 10.50 |
| Private study hours | 100.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 50.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150.00 | ||
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Progress on the module will be monitored by feedback on group work in seminars, engagement with activity groups, and the opportunity to submit a plan for the assessed coursework.Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | 3000 words | 100.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
The resit for this module will be 100% by 3,000 words coursework.
Reading list
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