Strategic Workforce Management: Developing Skills and Enhancing Teamwork

HRM and Leading people

Teamwork is an answer to the new demands of the market: Innovation, globalisation, quality improvement and customer orientation. Teamwork is a way to deal with the increasing complexity that overwhelms the individual specialised employee.

This module will help you to increase your awareness of the latest thinking regarding strategic workforce management, develop your skills to lead individual employees and teams in varying situations and to face future challenges with confidence.

You will explore how to build a team, improve teamwork and collaboration and manage critical team processes; you will debate some of the best ways to bind the productive potential of teams and how to mitigate the risks and traps of teamwork. It includes: self-awareness, reflection on your experience and received peer feedback; understand team dynamics and inspire confidence in others; combining academic rigour with practical relevance.

This module aims to develop students’ critical understanding of the current literature on strategic workforce management including the management of talent, organisational learning, team dynamics, conflict management, diversity and inclusion. Students will apply their knowledge of strategic workforce management to a practical situation in order to demonstrate their ability work effectively as a member of a high-performance team and their own ability to collaborate effectively.

Students can expect from tutors:

·Constructive formative feedback on one assignment draft per assessment

·Lecture slides made available on blackboard prior to lecture

·Assessment marks and summative feedback given within fifteen working days from the assessment submission deadline Tutors expect that students:

·Attend all teaching and activity sessions and arrive punctually

·Behave professionally in classes and avoid disruption to class and other students

·Inform tutor via email beforehand when not able to attend any classes

·Participate and communicate professionally in class and with tutors

·Attempt all assessments by submission deadline and communicate with the tutor if there are any extenuating circumstances to explore extensions requests and/or mitigation claims Indicative Content:

·HRM and Leading people

·Personality Belief and Values

·Attitude, Perception and Communication

·Group and Team Working

·Performance and Reward, High performance working organisations

·Power, Politics and control mechanisms

·Flexibility and psychological contract

·Motivation and job satisfaction.

·Leadership Styles and Traits ( will also cover the leadership beyond area of control/authority and relevance of getting people buy-in, Articulating vision to teams and people)

·Organisation Structures

·Organisation Cultures, inter-organisational partnerships

·Managing Change ( status quo, internal and external drivers of change and change models)

·Managing Conflicts and Negotiation Tactics

·Employee relations ( will cover contractual agreements, health and safety polices)

·Ethics at Work

1.2Learning outcomes to be assessed

1.Demonstrate a critical understanding of the current literature on strategic workforce planning, including talent management, learning organisations, diversity and inclusion.

2.Demonstrate an understanding of the main theories of team dynamics and conflict management.

3.Work effectively as a member of a high-performance team, contributing to a collaborative and inclusive culture.

4.Demonstrate ability to cooperate, negotiate, influence, lead in given or chosen contexts.

5.Critically evaluate one’s effectiveness at collaboration and leadership; and identify areas for further development.

Portfolio Element 1: Essay (précis)

The module learning outcomes assessed:

1.Demonstrate a critical understanding of the current literature on strategic workforce planning, including talent management, learning organisations, diversity and inclusion.

2.Demonstrate an understanding of the main theories of team dynamics and conflict management.

Task:

"Learning organisations" is seen as a central concept towards organisational competitiveness.Discuss the critical literature in this field using relevant and recent authoritative sources and justify whether the concept still holds true in the current business contexts.

Requirements:

a)You are required to write an academic essay of no less than 700 and no more than 1000 words (not including bibliography).

b)You must have used exactly eight sources of published literary sources.

c)The tutor will provide three out of the eight sources.

d)You are required to obtain five of the required eight sources independently.