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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Connecting Strategy and HRM

  • Unit Code

    MAN6712

  • Year

    2025

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    6

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Peiwen CHEW

Description

The focal theme of this unit is the importance of aligning Human Resource Management (HRM) with business strategy and the external environment. The learning experiences in this unit will help prepare students to perform the role of strategic partner through developing a strategic mindset about the management of people in organisations. HR practitioners can play a strategic partner role when they have the knowledge and skills to be an essential part of the senior management team running the organisation and can translate business strategy into action through the effective management of an organisations human resources. The unit also develops students understanding of HRs role in the management of organisational change

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MAN5730.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN5258.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply advanced knowledge of Strategic Human Resource Management within an international context that includes knowledge of recent developments in the field and professional practice.
  2. Evaluate theory and research that links human resource systems and organisational performance.
  3. Collaborate in team settings to develop HR initiatives that align the workforce with the organisation’s strategic priorities and values.
  4. Reflect on your individual performance in a team, identifying opportunities for future improvement.
  5. Communicate orally and in written formats advanced HR concepts in a professional context.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to connecting strategy and HRM.
  2. The strategic goals of HRM and organisational agility.
  3. Strategy and HRM.
  4. Applying theory in strategic HRM research.
  5. Research that links HRM and performance
  6. The 'Black Box' of HRM and HRM implementation.
  7. The concept of fit in strategic HRM.
  8. Design of work systems.
  9. Employee engagement.
  10. Leveraging HR practices to build a positive organisational culture.
  11. The HR function and management of strategic organisational change.
  12. Making HR accountable.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportIndividual report40%
ReportGroup report30%
PresentationPersonal video reflection 30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportIndividual report40%
ReportGroup report30%
ParticipationPersonal video reflection 30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Connecting Strategy and HRM

  • Unit Code

    MAN6712

  • Year

    2025

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    6

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Peiwen CHEW

Description

The focal theme of this unit is the importance of aligning Human Resource Management (HRM) with business strategy and the external environment. The learning experiences in this unit will help prepare students to perform the role of strategic partner through developing a strategic mindset about the management of people in organisations. HR practitioners can play a strategic partner role when they have the knowledge and skills to be an essential part of the senior management team running the organisation and can translate business strategy into action through the effective management of an organisations human resources. The unit also develops students understanding of HRs role in the management of organisational change

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MAN5730.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN5258.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply advanced knowledge of Strategic Human Resource Management within an international context that includes knowledge of recent developments in the field and professional practice.
  2. Evaluate theory and research that links human resource systems and organisational performance.
  3. Collaborate in team settings to develop HR initiatives that align the workforce with the organisation’s strategic priorities and values.
  4. Reflect on your individual performance in a team, identifying opportunities for future improvement.
  5. Communicate orally and in written formats advanced HR concepts in a professional context.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to connecting strategy and HRM.
  2. The strategic goals of HRM and organisational agility.
  3. Strategy and HRM.
  4. Applying theory in strategic HRM research.
  5. Research that links HRM and performance
  6. The 'Black Box' of HRM and HRM implementation.
  7. The concept of fit in strategic HRM.
  8. Design of work systems.
  9. Employee engagement.
  10. Leveraging HR practices to build a positive organisational culture.
  11. The HR function and management of strategic organisational change.
  12. Making HR accountable.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportIndividual report40%
ReportGroup report30%
PresentationPersonal video reflection 30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportIndividual report40%
ReportGroup report30%
ParticipationPersonal video reflection 30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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