Course Description
This course prepares students to help organizations thrive and compete in complex business environments by integrating dynamic planning and talent management strategies into organizational goals. Students utilize information available within and outside the organization that affect individual and organizational decision-making, in particular those that have a direct impact throughout the process of planning through retention.
Course Content
Workforce Planning:
1. Workforce analysis and organizational structure
2. Job analysis
3. Job design
4. Human resource planning and process
5. Improving job design and HR planning using HRM information systems
6. Social responsibility and legal issues in workforce planning
Talent Management:
1. The nature of staffing
a. Staffing models and strategy
b. Staffing management system
2. Support activities
a. Legal compliance
b. Use of measures
3. Staffing activities
a. Internal recruitment
b. External recruitment
c. Selection screening
d. Selection testing
e. Internal selection
f. Decision-making
4. Orientation practices and on-boarding programs
5. Retention management
6. Social responsibility and legal issues in managing talent
Learning Activities
Lectures, discussions, small-group discussions and exercises, case studies, videos, role plays, guest speakers, simulations and/or project(s).
Means of Assessment
| Term Project(s) |
15% - 25% |
| Term Tests and/or Quizzes |
20% - 25% |
| Final Examination |
20% - 25% |
| Cases, Assignments and/or Presentations |
20% - 25% |
| Participation |
0% - 10% |
| Total |
100% |
Notes
1. At least 50% of the total coursework must be individual work.
2. To pass the course, students must achieve a cumulative grade of 50% in all non-group assessments as well as 50% overall in the course. In other words, students must have achieved at least 50% on their cumulative individual assessments in order to be eligible to earn marks from group work.
3. Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, a successful student should be able to:
1. analyze staffing needs and gaps by developing models, methods and plans consistent with organizational design, goals and requirements;
2. design workforce planning and talent management strategies supporting organizational goals and increasing an organization’s employee value proposition;
3. evaluate and create planning and talent management strategies to attract, develop and retain talent;
4. assess how workforce planning and talent management strategies relate to individual and organizational performance; and
5. recommend improvements to existing organizational workforce planning and talent management strategies.
Textbook Materials
All of the following materials are required:
Steen S.L., Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B. and Wright, P.M (latest edition). Human resource management. McGraw Hill Education. Canada.
Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B., Wright, P.M. and Eligh, L. (latest edition). Strategic human resource management. McGraw Hill Education. Canada.
Heneman III, H.G., Judge, T.A., Smith, V. and Summers, R. (latest edition). Staffing organizations: Recruitment and selection in Canada. McGraw Hill Education. Canada.
Or any alternative textbook that has been approved by the department.
Or Custom Coursepack - to be developed by the department.