Workforce Planning and Talent Management

Curriculum Guideline

Effective Date:
Course
Discontinued
No
Course Code
BUSN 3352
Descriptive
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Department
Business
Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Credits
3.00
Start Date
End Term
202030
PLAR
No
Semester Length
15 Weeks
Max Class Size
35
Contact Hours

Weekly Distribution:

  • Lecture: 3 hours
  • Seminar: 1 hour
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Seminar
Online
Hybrid
Learning Activities

Lectures, discussions, small-group discussions and exercises, case studies, videos, role plays, guest speakers, simulations and/or project(s).

Course Description
This course prepares students to help organizations thrive and compete in complex business environments by integrating dynamic planning and talent management strategies into organizational goals. Students utilize information available within and outside the organization that affect individual and organizational decision-making, in particular those that have a direct impact throughout the process of planning through retention.
Course Content

Workforce Planning:
1. Workforce analysis and organizational structure
2. Job analysis
3. Job design
4. Human resource planning and process
5. Improving job design and HR planning using HRM information systems
6. Social responsibility and legal issues in workforce planning

Talent Management:
1. The nature of staffing
   a. Staffing models and strategy
   b. Staffing management system
2. Support activities
   a. Legal compliance
   b. Use of measures
3. Staffing activities
   a. Internal recruitment
   b. External recruitment
   c. Selection screening
   d. Selection testing
   e. Internal selection
   f. Decision-making
4. Orientation practices and on-boarding programs
5. Retention management
6. Social responsibility and legal issues in managing talent

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, a successful student should be able to:
1. analyze staffing needs and gaps by developing models, methods and plans consistent with organizational design, goals and requirements;
2. design workforce planning and talent management strategies supporting organizational goals and increasing an organization’s employee value proposition;
3. evaluate and create planning and talent management strategies to attract, develop and retain talent;
4. assess how workforce planning and talent management strategies relate to individual and organizational performance; and
5. recommend improvements to existing organizational workforce planning and talent management strategies.

Means of Assessment
Term Project(s) 15% - 25%
Term Tests and/or Quizzes 20% - 25%
Final Examination 20% - 25%
Cases, Assignments and/or Presentations 20% - 25%
Participation 0% - 10%
Total 100%

 

Notes
1. At least 50% of the total coursework must be individual work. 
2. To pass the course, students must achieve a cumulative grade of 50% in all non-group assessments as well as 50% overall in the course. In other words, students must have achieved at least 50% on their cumulative individual assessments in order to be eligible to earn marks from group work.

Textbook Materials

All of the following materials are required:

Steen S.L., Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B. and Wright, P.M (latest edition). Human resource management. McGraw Hill Education. Canada.

Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B., Wright, P.M. and Eligh, L. (latest edition). Strategic human resource management. McGraw Hill Education. Canada.

Heneman III, H.G., Judge, T.A., Smith, V. and Summers, R. (latest edition). Staffing organizations: Recruitment and selection in Canada. McGraw Hill Education. Canada.

Or any alternative textbook that has been approved by the department.

Or Custom Coursepack - to be developed by the department.

Prerequisites

Courses listed here must be completed prior to this course:

Corequisites

Courses listed here must be completed either prior to or simultaneously with this course:

  • No corequisite courses
Equivalencies

Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:

  • No equivalency courses