In exclusive association with the Michigan Ross School of Business
Date: 18 to 20 May, 2009
Timings: 08.30 to 17.30 daily
Venue: Dubai, UAE
Fee: US$4,500/ AED16,500

The Wall Street Journal has ranked Michigan’s Strategic Human Resource Management the number one programme of its kind, worldwide. It is therefore not surprising that Business Week has ranked the Ross School of Business as number one globally for human resource management programmes.

Strategic Human Resource Management, facilitated by world-renowned researcher, teacher and expert, Wayne Brockbank, combines practical tools, cutting-edge best practices, current research and powerful frameworks. You will learn to turn your organisation’s strategy into HR practices, create a customer-focused culture, articulate the value of HR investments for your business and apply state-of-the-art techniques to human resource management. You will also gain practice designing a human resource strategy that will result in value-added HR agendas and practices and take away powerful tools for managing strategic change through the human resource function.

Much of the programme builds off of 25 years of research and consulting that have been done by Professor Brockbank and his colleagues at the RBL Group and the University of Michigan. This research includes the world’s largest global data set about the competencies and agendas that differentiate HR professionals in high performing firms from those in low performing firms.

This programme may also qualify you for a Michigan Certificate:
Click here for details (pdf, 219kb).

Key Benefits

During this programme, you will:

• Learn to integrate HR strategy with your organisation’s strategy
• Acquire a comprehensive framework for effective HR strategic development
• Translate your firm’s competitive, customer and shareholder requirements into HR agendas and practices
• Identify and build competitive organisational capabilities
• Frame and execute powerful change initiatives
• Learn to measure success of HR strategies and practices

Programme Content

1. HR as Fundamental to Business Success
   1. Understanding the importance of HR in today’s organisational environment
   2. Developing high value-added HR agendas
   3. Linking HR practices to the competitive marketplace
   4. Adding short-term and long-term competitive value through HR
   
   
2. Logic and Process for Linking HR to the Business Strategy
   1. Understanding trends and practices in corporate strategy formulation
   2. Interpreting the business
   3. Applying best practices in building a business-driven HR strategy
   4. Transitioning HR from operationally reactive to strategically proactive
   5. Measuring the HR strategy’s value added
   
   
3. Creating Competitive Capabilities
   1. Understanding the role of human resources in driving speed, productivity, service, innovation, and cost reduction
   2. Creating the customer-focused culture
   3. Recognising HR’s role in designing and implementing effective organisational structures
   4. Retaining and utilising your best talent
   5. Making HR strategy happen

Who Should Attend

This programme is designed for mid- to senior-level HR professionals, as well as senior executives whose roles in today’s environment require a more in-depth knowledge of the value derived from human capital, and hence, of the role HR plays in strategic decision making. While primarily intended for professionals who are responsible for the design, guidance and implementation of human resource strategies at corporate or divisional levels, HR generalists at every level will also benefit.

Ideal Team Learning Opportunity

The programme’s focus on strategy makes it an ideal team learning opportunity. By engaging in active dialogue around real HR issues confronting your organisation, your team will gain practical knowledge to help you develop and implement strategies that deliver value to your business.

In-House Programme Option

This and many other Business School programmes can be customised for in-house delivery. Contact us if you have a group of executives who would benefit.