Sourcing and Building Capability PG (11422.2)

This unit introduces students to a complex body of knowledge and relevant practice relating to two key human resource management practice areas (sourcing and building human capital) that need to be effectively designed and implemented to ensure organisations manage their workforce size, profile and capabilities in a dynamic organisational context.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Critically analyse a complex body of theoretical knowledge relating to the challenges that managers face in sourcing and building workforce capability in a variety of organisational contexts including developments in this field of study.

2. Evaluate and apply the dimensions of the competencies and behaviours relevant to a HR professional or senior manager in sourcing and building workforce capability.
3. Reflect critically on the characteristics of effective practice for sourcing and building workforce capability and identify how this relates to employee wellbeing and effective individual and organisational performance.
4. Assess and apply skill and sound ethical principles in the use of an array of HR metrics in evidence-based decision-making associated with sourcing and building workforce capability.
5. Critically review a complex body of knowledge including recent developments in relation to the factors driving organisational change, changes in the future of work and the workforce that have implications for workforce management.
6. Integrate industry research in sourcing and building workforce capability in a selected organisational context that enhances employee wellbeing and job performance.
7. Present with skill and creativity the results of research and analysis of organisational HRM capability in a dynamic business context.
8. Demonstrate a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Assumed knowledge

Understanding of theory and practice in human capital and human resource management and the issues surrounding sustaining the employment relationship.