HRCM1-GC3207: Managing Organizational Leadership and Talent

This course will approach Global Talent Management as a fundamental business concept and will focus on key talent management processes and techniques as practiced today in business, non-profit, and governmental organizations.

Through lectures, readings, case studies, group discussions, and presentations, students will learn how to analyze and assess the factors that optimize workforce performance and ensure return on talent management investments, develop a model for aligning talent and business strategy to ensure necessary talent resources are available for business success, and evaluate various approaches for developing managers and leaders of knowledge-based organizations.

Additional course topics will include: reviewing, reinventing, and developing strategies for attracting, selecting, motivating, and retaining the best talent; engaging and utilizing superior performers; and, the tools and strategies that successful organizations use to leverage human capital investments more effectively than their competitors.