Emerging Issues in HRT

UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:

• Examining current contextual influences and the future direction for contextualizing Human Resources and Training (HRT).
• Defining key features of business ethics and various ethical frameworks that human resources and training professionals should consider.
• Identifying the choices, contingencies and various theoretical approaches to strategic HRT.
• Analyzing the impact of organizational restructuring and the HRT responses.
• Understanding the implication of globalization for the 21^st century’s workforce.
• Exploring the changing dynamics of the workplace, contemporary developments in the job and work design.
• Examining HRT in transnational organizations and the role of global HRT professionals in those organizations.
• Appraising the latest technology in the delivery of training programs.
• Developing business cases and social equity approaches to diversity management.
• Designing different change management approaches and key considerations HRT professionals face.
• Identifying future theoretical and practical challenges in the field of research in recruitment and selection.
• Understanding the social and cultural factors affecting employee perceptions of fair pay and effectiveness of pay programs.
• Analyzing the most effective sources for global performance management systems and identifying strategies to enhance the technological delivery of those systems.
• Examining changes in the workplace environment and its effect of work-life balance programs.
• Identifying good practices for employee involvement and employee participation in organizations.
• Exploring the role that HRT plays within the organization and how that role can impact organizational performance.
• Analyzing the relationship between knowledge and learning to include ways to implement knowledge transfer strategies.
• Examining the assumptions of total quality management and the key elements of the human resources management cycle.