Glob­al People Man­age­ment: Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment & Lead­er­ship

Course content

The management and leadership of the global organization's human resources is a key field in today's business world, and is practiced in many different ways. This course focuses on international / intercultural leadership and human resource management. An organization's ability to mediate and integrate a multiplicity of environmental settings is essential to the performance of global organizations.
 
The course will see global people management as exercised by HR managers and professionals through three lenses:

1. A culturalist perspective: How work life behavior and preferences are influenced by national cultural differences of managers and employees.
2. A comparative perspective: How people management practices vary in societies depending on national, regional and sectoral differences (eg educational system, legislation, business structure etc.)
3. A global perspective: How people management is carried out in global organizations working with crossing geographical and cultural boundaries; ie how to coordinate and draw benefit from transnational differences.

This course also provides an introduction to global human resource management and leadership as disciplines or academic fields of study and a realm of corporate or organizational practice. The course introduces a variety of theories, perspectives and approaches to the study and practice of global human resource management and leadership, as well as theories and perspectives on the causes and consequences of international / cultural differences and globalization. Human resource management and leadership issues such as recruitment, talent management, ethics, diversity, team work and performance management are taken from a global perspective.