Why is it important to attract top talent? And how do you attract the best people to your business? You'll develop the skills to manage resourcing and talent management to create a competitive advantage. Drawing on the most significant contemporary debates in the field, you’ll learn about human resource planning, succession planning, recruitment and selection, employee retention and employer branding. You’ll be able to employ resourcing tools and techniques effectively across a range of organisational contexts, so you're ready to build teams that deliver results for business.
Private Study: 128
Contact Hours: 22
Total: 150
Main assessment methods
Case study (2500 words) (40%)
Examination, 2 hour (60%).
Reassessment methods
100% Exam
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Critically evaluate the theory of employee resourcing and its links with organisational theory.
- Have knowledge and understanding of the development and evaluation of employee resourcing and talent management strategies, diversity management and flexible working initiatives.
- Critically assess the approaches and principle techniques and developments, both existing and emerging, of employee resourcing from the creation of a human resource plan, through recruitment, selection, socialisation, performance management, employee turnover, employee retention and review to eventual employee release.
- Understand and critically evaluate the wider environmental content, particularly the major features of employment markets from which organisations source staff, and the ways in which this external environment evolves or changes.
- Understand the requirement to secure compliance of all appropriate ethical and legal obligations and the co-operation of relevant stakeholders in the design and implementation of resourcing processes.
- Evaluate talent planning and success planning exercises, employee retention and staff retention strategies, and their links to long-term organisational performance.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Set employee resourcing in the wider context of general organisational management.
- Critically assess and evaluate the impact of employee resourcing on management and the performance of organisations.
- Develop analytical skills by linking theoretical perspectives to contemporary organisational situations throughout the course of the module.
- Develop relevant strategies and policies.
- Plan work, working independently, and in groups.
- Write coherently and write critically.
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