Organisational Talent Management PG (12291.1)

Explore a complex body of theory, concepts and recent developments in professional practice on effective talent management. Appreciate characteristics of effective talent management, its perceived benefits and challenges and the different approaches to managing talented employees and important contingent workers. Draw on your work experience, the research literature and various case studies to help position these theories and concepts in a practical organisational context, and critically reflect on your professional practice as it relates to talent management.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Reflect critically on your own professional practice as it relates to effective talent management;
2. Analyse a complex body of knowledge, developments and theory related to effective talent management; and
3. Integrate research and insights to identify how an organisation can improve its talent management processes to support employee wellbeing, enhance performance and sustain its dynamic capability.

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 - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
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

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

11418 Managing Human Capital G.

Assumed knowledge

None.