Master Syllabus: HRM 6623 3

Master Syllabus: HRM 6623 3

TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

HRM 6623
Talent Development

Prerequisites

Graduate standing.

Description

A study of concepts and practices used to identify and provide human resources training and development needs critical to ensuring organizational effectiveness.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

1. Describe the role of training in organizations as well as its limitations in influencing performance.

2. Identify the major classical and modern principles of learning and describe how they facilitate human resource development (HRD).

3. Employ the ADDIE model of Instructional Systems Development (ISD).

4. Discuss the role of talent management (employee development/career planning), including the role of mentorship and coaching in developing human resources.

5. Apply performance management techniques for individual development (e.g., 360-degree feedback) and facilitating the achievement of organizational goals.

6. Discuss the effect of trainee demographics, job complexity, and changes in technology on the design of training programs.

7. Differentiate the process of organizational development from other HRD techniques.

8. Create a strategic HRD intervention in an organizational setting applying the ADDIE model (needs analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation).

Purpose

To provide understanding of a systematic approach to link training to organizational goals through a process of needs analysis, training design, training development, training delivery, and evaluating the effectiveness of the training intervention. Also satisfies graduate research requirement.

Approved Text (most recent edition unless otherwise specified):

Werner, J. M. and Desimone, R. L. Human resource development. Mason, OH; Cengage Learning.

Program SLOs Addressed by Assessment Component:

1. SLO 2.1: Students will demonstrate comprehension of strategic HRM concepts and practices.
   
2. SLO 2.2: Students will apply strategic HRM concepts and practices to support the attainment of an organization’s business strategy.
   
3. SLO 5.2: Students will demonstrate effective writing skills in preparing a case analysis.
   

Assessments: The following materials are required in this course for assessment purposes.

Assignment: “A.P.Moller-Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives” (HBS case). Must be purchased separately by students from Harvard Business Publications ($6.95).
Related Rubric: Strategic Application Rubric #1 – MSHRM Program
Related Rubric: Written Communication Rubric – MSHRM Program

See related “Instructor Guidelines for Administering MSHRM Rubrics.”

Course Coordinator: Dr. John Dexter

Student Engagement:

Instructors in this course will add videos, movies, site visits, guest speakers, service learning projects, or other activities designed to engage students in experiential and active learning activities designed to improve skills and the application of knowledge within the business community.

Optional Reference Materials:

Falcone, P. 2600 phrases for effective performance reviews: Ready-to-use words and phrases that really get results. New York, NY: AMACOM.

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB MISSION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business (SCOB) prepares a diverse student body, drawn primarily from Alabama and surrounding states, to become successful, ethical and engaged business professionals with the knowledge to compete in the global business environment.

To achieve this our faculty, staff, and administration will:

Provide quality undergraduate and graduate education in global business through high-quality teaching;

Serve the university and engage with business and professional communities in our primary service area through individual involvement and our centers for research and outreach;

Grow and enhance the longstanding “culture of caring” for our traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students; and

Contribute to the creation of knowledge, with a focus on the scholarship of application and integration, and teaching and learning, complemented by basic and discovery scholarship in select disciplines.

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB VISION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business strives to be a renowned teaching-focused business college graduating GEEKS ready to succeed in business and life.

Revised June 2016

Troy University Faculty Handbook (2016): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):

1.  Course title
2.  Course number + section
3.  Term
4.  Instructor
5.  Prerequisites
6.  Office hours
7.  Class days, times / 8.  Classroom location
9.  Office location + e-mail address
10.  Office telephone
11.  Course description, objectives
12.  Text(s) / 13.  Other materials
14.  Grading methods, criterion weights, make-up policy, mid-term grade reports
15.  Procedure, course requirements / 16.  General supports (Computer Works, writing center)
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19.  Electronic device statement
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21.  Attendance/
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23.  Cheating policy
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