Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) Track

Strategic HR Management Track

Aligning HR with organizational success

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30% exemption from our MBA Programs
3 Courses
175 Hours
55 Lessons
CMI Track Certificate
Certifeka Certificate
6 Months Access

Track Overview

The Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) Track focuses on aligning HR practices with an organization's broader goals. It emphasizes proactive talent management, performance metrics, and fostering a positive organizational culture. By leveraging human capital for competitive advantage, this approach aims to maximize productivity and innovation. In essence, SHRM integrates HR strategies to directly contribute to the organization's long-term success.

Track Consists of 3 CMI Courses
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1: Strategic Human Resources

Strategic Human Resource Management integrates human resources strategies with an organization's key objectives. It emphasizes proactive talent management, aligns performance metrics with business goals, fosters a conducive organizational culture, and leverages human capital for competitive advantage. Through this approach, organizations aim to maximize productivity and innovation from their workforce.

In this course, you will be introduced to:

Strategic Workforce Planning
Performance and Talent Management
Competitive Compensation Strategy
Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
Culture and Diversity Management
Strategic Leadership and Alignment

You can find the curriculum below:

Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management

Strategic Human Resource Management is the alignment of HR strategies with organizational goals. It requires an understanding of factors affecting HRM strategies. Notably, SHRM plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of strategic plans by optimizing human capital alignment.

Lessons

HRM VS. SHRM
Strategic HRM in Business

Strategic Alignment

Strategic alignment ensures HR strategies align with organizational goals. Recognizing factors that impact HRM strategies is vital. It is also important to understand how Strategic Human Resource Management enhances the success of strategic plans.

Lessons

Reviewing Status
Goals Alignment

Market Analysis

Market analysis delves into evaluating a company’s current position within its industry. It involves a deep understanding of business markets and the external environment that can influence success. To navigate these complexities, gaining competitive intelligence is essential, providing insights into competitors’ strengths, weaknesses, and potential moves.

Lessons

Evaluating Current Position
Business Markets and External Environment
Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Advantage

Competitive advantage involves understanding the scope of the business, ensuring business alignment, optimizing organizational structure, fostering a unique organizational culture, and adopting effective leadership styles to stand out in the market.

Lessons

Understanding the scope of the business
Business Alignment
Organizational Structure
Organizational Culture
Leadership Styles

Strategic Risks and Opportunities

Understanding factors affecting HRM strategies is key in identifying strategic risks and opportunities. It’s essential to grasp how SHRM contributes to strategic plan success and how to adeptly prepare HRM strategies for optimal alignment and adaptability.

Lessons

SWOT Analysis
GAP Analysis

SHRM Strategies

Navigating the complexities of SHRM starts with understanding the factors affecting HRM strategies. To capitalize on this knowledge, developing a strategic HRM plan that aligns human resources seamlessly with broader organizational goals is essential.

Lessons

HRM Models
SHRM Planning

SHRM Implementation

For successful SHRM implementation, one must first understand the factors affecting HRM strategies. Using this understanding as a foundation, the next pivotal step is to develop a strategic HRM plan, ensuring that human resources initiatives align cohesively with the organization’s broader objectives.

Lessons

Staffing
Training and Development
Employee Separation and Retention Management
Barriers to SHRM Implementation

2: Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior is how individuals and groups act within organizations. It combines elements from psychology, sociology, and anthropology to understand and predict workplace behavior, enhancing organizational performance and employee well-being.

In this course, you will be introduced to:

Worker insights.
Boost motivation
Enhance work
Build trust
Achieve goals
Improve relations

You can find the curriculum below:

Fundamentals of leadership behavior theory and practice

Differentiates leaders from managers, studies personal leadership qualities, emphasizes team inclusion in decisions, explores leader-team interactions, observes leadership actions, and considers how social perceptions shape leadership.

Lessons

Leadership versus Management
Personal Leadership traits
Role Theory of Leadership
Participative Theories
Working Relationships and Interaction
Behavioral Theories
Social Constructionism

The organizational structures & culture

Describes varied organizational models including modular and matrix. Emphasizes decentralization and the diverse functionalities of structures. Highlights the shared beliefs that influence member behavior and the value of continuous organizational learning.

Lessons

Bureaucracies, Stakeholders, re-engineered corporation, modular, hierarchical, matrix
Decentralization
Line, staff & functional structures
Organization Culture
The Learning Organization

Business internal opportunities

Champions harnessing creativity for growth, leveraging organizational culture, learning from experiences, using metrics to evaluate success, team collaboration for diverse insights, and adeptly guiding organizational changes.

Lessons

Innovation and creativity
Organizational culture opportunities
Organizational learning
Measuring performance
Working in teams
Change Management

Motivational Theories

Touches on early work efficiency theories, hierarchical needs, factors influencing job satisfaction, contrasting views of employee motivation, and the mental processes driving motivation.

Lessons

Taylorism, Mayo Theory
Maslow, Herzberg, Theory
McGregor, Broad theories (e.g. temporal motivation theory)
Cognitive theory

3: Personal Development & Leadership

Personal Development involves self-improvement through enhancing skills, knowledge, and self-awareness. Leadership is the capacity to inspire and guide others, combining interpersonal skills, strategic vision, and trust-building.

In this course, you will be introduced to:

Vision and Mission Mastery
Strategic Management
Team Leadership
Financial Acumen
Organizational Stability
Time and Task Management

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Vision & strategy - The Intro

Understanding a vision statement is pivotal in setting an organization’s direction. Its importance lies in providing clarity and differentiating it from mission and goals. Whether viewed from a practical or academic lens, vision aids in the formation of mission statements, goals, values, and strategy. Successfully crafting and linking a vision to strategy becomes the cornerstone of organizational progression.

Lessons

What is a vision, Mission, Values & Goals?
What is planning & strategy?
Linking the vision with the strategy

The Mindset

For a leader, the right mindset is essential in vision creation and its effective communication. Recognizing organizational strengths while navigating uncertainties ensures resilience. Mastering time management tools and techniques ensures efficiency. All these, combined with a strategic mindset, are fundamental for effectuating organizational success.

Lessons

Describing futures with clarity
Understanding your organization’s capabilities
Prioritization & time management
Strategic manager’s Effectiveness

Understanding Leadership

Leadership isn’t just a term; it’s an embodiment of influence and direction. A leader isn’t defined by the title but by their skills, competencies, and inherent strengths that motivate and guide teams towards collective goals.

Lessons

Leadership explained
Being a leader
Leader’s strengths

Leader's personal contribution

A leader’s role extends beyond guidance; it involves recognizing and appraising team performance. Balancing their personality traits with professional demands is essential for sustainable leadership. Continuous personal growth, coupled with celebrating achievements, not only enhances the leader’s journey but also boosts team morale and cohesion.

Lessons

Feedback and Performance
Self-awareness and reflection
Success celebration

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Track Outcomes

Worker insights

Boost motivation

Enhance work

Build trust

Achieve goals

Improve relations

Vision and Mission Mastery

Strategic Management

Team Leadership

Financial Acumen

Organizational Stability

Time and Task Management

Strategic Workforce Planning

Performance and Talent Management

Competitive Compensation Strategy

Evaluation and Continuous Improvement

Culture and Diversity Management

Strategic Leadership and Alignment

CMI Recognition & Accreditation

Once you finish your Track you will be eligible to use this CMI Foundation Chartered Manager badge across your credentials

CMI Employer Accreditation offers you a unique opportunity to be able to reward your teams’ with nationally-recognised qualifications, as part of your in-house training. Give your team the competitive edge and provide them with practical tools that can be applied straight into the workplace.

CMI represents the benchmark for Management and Leadership skills. Backed by our Royal Charter, we are the only professional body able to offer Chartered status for your managers and leaders. Included with accredited solutions like: 12 months membership with CMI, offering digital resources, networking, mentoring and skills support.

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is the only organization that can award Chartered Manager status, the highest accolade for managers and leaders. For 75 years, we have inspired modern managers to become successful, confident leaders.

With CMI as your lifelong career partner, you will always have access to support, guidance and development opportunities to help you achieve your professional goals, and achieve the ultimate management accolade, Chartered Manager status.

Defining your strengths against CMI’s Professional Standard, their Career Journey map identifies opportunities to develop your management and leadership skills, whatever stage of your career you’re at.

Each Chartered Manager boosts their business revenue by £62k every year

74% of students on CMI accredited courses acquired the skills to lead change and innovation

81% of students on CMI accredited courses recognized their ability to develop people and capabilities

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Hear what our students and alumni have to say about their experience with our SHRM

"The SHRM Track transformed my understanding of HR. The blend of strategy and human resources concepts was precisely what I needed for my career advancement."

Layla Al-Fayed

"The blend of theory and practical application in the SHRM Track is outstanding. It gave me tools and strategies that I could implement immediately in my organization."

Noor Saif

"Every HR manager or executive should consider taking the SHRM Track. It not only deepens your understanding but also equips you with a strategic mindset essential for today's business world."

Sami Al-Tariq

"The SHRM Track is comprehensive, insightful, and, most importantly, relevant to current HR challenges. It has significantly improved my strategic decision-making skills in the HR domain."

Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) Track