HRMT 621 - Human Resources Management In The Global Environment
Timeline
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January 15, 2022Experience start
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January 21, 2022Project Scope Meeting
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February 4, 2022Progress Meeting Update
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March 15, 2022Experience end
Timeline
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January 15, 2022Experience start
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January 21, 2022Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates and fill any information gaps.
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February 4, 2022Progress Meeting Update
Update on progress and challenges in successfully progressing the project to timely completion
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March 15, 2022Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
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business consulting business strategy communication research project planningCourse: Motivated post graduate students pursuing an MBA take this introductory International HRM course on Global Human Resources. Working with Riipen clients enables students to gain opportunities to apply current HR theory and principles. It accounts for approx. 25% of their final grade.
Course Structure: The fall course runs on a 10 week term and students work in Learning Teams (LT) of between 4 and 6 students. Winter Term 2022 runs from January 10th 2022 to Mach 20th 2022
Key milestones:
Week 2 -1st Briefing Meeting between Riipen client and Learning Team to clarify the assignment details and fill any information gaps.
Week 4 - Submission of formal Proposal/Action Plan by the LT to the Riipen Client to which formal feedback and evaluation is provided by the client.
Ongoing engagement as project progresses towards completion.
Week 8/9: Submission of Final Report, by the LT to the Riipen Client to which formal feedback and evaluation is provided by the client.
Students
Some Examples of Types of Projects and Deliverables - Open To Discussion
- A Formal policy on any particular HRM and HRD issue.
- A Formal report on any aspect of HRM and the HRM cycle from recruitment to exit.
- A Learning and Development Plan
- A report on a variety of aspects of operational and strategic HRM and HRD
- Primary and secondary research report on a variety of HRM and HRD issues.
Expectations and Deliverables:
By Students:
- To actively engage with the Riipen client in a professional and timely manner.
- To meet the client's needs and specifications as originally set out in the detailed assignment brief.
- To produced high quality work and reports which are of a high professional standard.
By Riipen Client:
- To provide a detailed assignment brief at the outset which lays out the specific of the project in terms of context, content, deliverables, quality and timelines.
- To actively and responsively engage with and support the student Learning Teams (LT) working on your project
- To provide timely and relevant information to enable the LT to produce the best work for you.
- To provide timely and constructive feedback on the project as it progresses.
- To fully appreciate that this is an experiential exercise in which the students are learning their craft and so there is a learning curve involved.
- To provide timely formal feedback and grading on the LT final assignment submission which forms a % of the students final grade.
Project timeline
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January 15, 2022Experience start
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January 21, 2022Project Scope Meeting
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February 4, 2022Progress Meeting Update
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March 15, 2022Experience end
Timeline
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January 15, 2022Experience start
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January 21, 2022Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates and fill any information gaps.
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February 4, 2022Progress Meeting Update
Update on progress and challenges in successfully progressing the project to timely completion
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March 15, 2022Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
Types of Projects that UCW MBA HRM students would be able to help Riipen clients with:
- Ideally all projects should have an international or global component to them if possible.
Provide Human Resource Management (HRM) and Human Resource Development (HRD) advise and support.
- Conduct HRM and HRD research
- Benchmark best practices on a variety of HRM and HRD practices and systems
- Evaluate various HRM and HRD initiatives and interventions along the HR employee cycle
- HR policy and practice development along all stage of the HR cycle, including recruitment, onboarding, employer branding, performance management, learning, training and development, reward management and labour relations,
- Benchmarking projects on various HRM and HRD initiatives.
- Conduct an audit of the HRM and HRD function.
- Evaluate various HRM and HRD functions.
- Prepare recruitment and selection packages.
- Aligning HRM strategy with business strategies.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Provide timely and constructive feedback to students on submissions and provide formal evaluations on student work as part of their final marks.
Fill any information gaps as we go and support and direct students on project parameters and directions.
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.
Be available for a phone or zoom call with the instructor and students to initiate your relationship and confirm your project scope is an appropriate fit for the course.
Timeline
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January 15, 2022Experience start
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January 21, 2022Project Scope Meeting
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February 4, 2022Progress Meeting Update
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March 15, 2022Experience end
Timeline
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January 15, 2022Experience start
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January 21, 2022Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates and fill any information gaps.
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February 4, 2022Progress Meeting Update
Update on progress and challenges in successfully progressing the project to timely completion
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March 15, 2022Experience end