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Over the years, Human Resource Management as a discipline has evolved without great levels of integration across different HR functions such as Recruitment and Selection, Training and Development, Performance Management, Compensation Management and Employee Engagement. Organizations which used the narrow and micro functional approach to people management problems in the past have realized the ineffectiveness of such approaches as they have limited ability to provide competitive advantage in isolation. Thus, both scholars and practitioners emphasize on recognizing the importance of establishing greater linkages between the business practices and HR practices which provide sustained competitive advantages to firms. Therefore, the purpose of this course is to provide a distinctive approach to human resource management as a strategic function by highlighting the issues with vertical integration of HR Strategy with Business Strategy as well as the horizontal integration of various HR functions.

2. Student Learning Outcomes

As a result of succeeding in this course, participants will be able to achieve the following the objectives.
· Be able to identify the Non-Strategic HR practices which derive from institutional and political forces within the firm as well as outside the firm and the negative impact of such practices on firm performance.

3. Required Text Books and Reading Material

Text Book: Strategic Human Resource Management by Jeffrey A. Mello. Publishers: Cengage Learning India Pvt. Limited, New Delhi.

Course Reading Material “Strategic HRM”, 2012 by the Instructor.

4. Tentative Session Plan

Theme 01 Non-Strategic HRM	Session 01 & 02	Exercise	SHRM Exercise 01
		Article Reading	Theoretical Perspectives for Strategic HRM
Theme 02 Can HR Provide Competitive Advantage?	Session 03, 04, 05 & 06	Case 01 Case 02	Venus Jewel Lijjat Papad
		Article Reading	Looking Inside for Competitive Advantage Distinctive HR Are Firms’ Core Competencies
Theme 03 Aligning HR Strategy with Business Strategy – Part I	Session 07, 08, 09 & 10	Exercise Case 01 Case 02	SHRM Exercise 02 Rising Frustration with Microsoft Review System Consent Producing Work Games
		Article Reading	Linking Competitive Strategies with Human Resource Management Practices
Theme 04 Aligning HR Strategy with Business Strategy – Part II	Session 11, 12 & 13	Case 01 Case 02	A Simpler Way to Pay Performance and Variable Pay at SRF Ltd
		Article Reading	Incentive Compensation
Theme 05 Cybernetic Approach to HR Systems	Session 14 & 15	Case	Eureka Forbes
		Article Reading	Sales Management’s Behavior and Compensation-Based Control Strategies
Theme 06 Life Beyond Organizations: Revisiting Career Management Practices	Session 16, 17 & 18	Case 01 Case 02	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Goodbye Career! Hello Success!
		Article Reading	The Myth of the Generic Manager: New Personal Competencies for New Management Roles
Theme 07 HR Sourcing and Risk Management	Session 19 & 20	Article Reading	They Are Not Employees, They Are People!
		Article Reading	Human Resource Sourcing and Risk Management

5. Evaluation

The course has four different components to suit the different learning style and pace of our participants. Each component has a series of related activities concerning conceptual learning and practical exposure aimed at achieving the course objectives. They are;

a) Assignments – 30%

There will be two to three assignments which will be used in the subsequent classes to facilitate learning. The guidelines for the assignments will be announced in the class as well as through course web.

The questions for the quizzes are drawn from the case material, reading material assigned for the theme, text book chapters, instructor’s presentation and the relevant news corner reports given for the themes. All the quizzes would be multiple-choice, either-or, and objective type.

As a part of course, students are required to prepare a field based case study. This would be a team exercise and the guidelines for the case study report will be given through AIS / Course web during the term.

The end-term examination would be a LIMITED open-book examination evaluating the concepts learnt discussed during the course.

Students are expected to adhere to the guidelines given for ER Exercises, Quiz and End-Term. All evaluation components are closed book unless it is explicitly specified by the instructor. Bringing Reading materials, Power Point Presentations, any electronic gadget including laptop and mobile phone to the exam hall would disqualify the students from appearing for the component. Copying in ER Exercises, Quiz, and End-Term would invite “F” in the whole component or even in the entire course depending on circumstances. This would be applicable for those who aid copying as well as for those who copied the ideas from the other.