Module code: HRM7016-B
This module provides learners, first, with an understanding of the principal internal and external environmental contexts of contemporary organisations, including the managerial and business context, within which managers, HR professionals and workers interact in conditions of environmental turbulence. Second, it examines how those leading organisations respond to these dynamic environmental contexts. Third, it indicates how managers and leaders in organisations need to recognise that corporate decisions and HR choices are not always shaped by managers alone but by internal and external forces.
1) Understand, analyse and critically evaluate contemporary organisations and their principal environments.
2) Understand, analyse and critically evaluate the managerial and business environment within which HR professionals work
3) Understand, analyse and critically evaluate how organisational and HR strategies are shaped by and developed in response to internal and external environmental factors
4) Understand, analyse and critically evaluate globalisation and international forces and how they shape and impact on organisational and HR strategies and HR practices.
5) Understand, analyse and critically evaluate the market and competitive environments of organisations and how organisational leaders and the HR function respond to them.
6) Understand, analyse and critically evaluate demographic, social and technological trends and how they shape and impact on organisational and HR strategies and HR practices
7) Understand, analyse and critically evaluate government policy and legal regulation and how these shape and impact on organisational and HR strategies and HR practices.