
IIM Calcutta | Executive Programme In Strategic Human Resource Management Batch 05
Understand the relationship between strategic HRM & business and corporate strategy
Understand the relationship between strategic HRM & business and corporate strategy
Course Snapshot
- FeeINR 4,50,000 + GST
- Work Experience7 - 30 Years
- Duration12 Months
- Delivery MethodOnline

Course Detail
Program Overview
IIM Calcutta Executive Programme in Strategic Human Resource Management (EPSHRM) while recapitulating participants knowledge of the HRM domain at an operational level, seeks to build on it to develop a strategic perspective. This comprehensive programme will not only introduce you to key principles, policies, and practices of human resource management but will also make you future job ready. The programme begins with a brief overview of the basics of HRM, employee/industrial relations, leadership and talent management, and organizational culture, followed by an overview of the basics of strategy - both business and corporate strategy - and then on the link between strategy and HRM. The programme also covers general management topics that are relevant for SHRM, along with contemporary issues such as international HRM, managing platform economy workers, evolving issues in employee/industrial relations, HR Analytics, and millennial workers.
Who Should Attend
- Middle and top-level managers with at least seven years of work/industry experience.
- HRM background is not necessary.
- IIM Calcutta Executive Education Alumni status.
- Campus immersion module of 5 days.
- Unique blend of multidisciplinary subjects.
- Designed to equip managers with global best practices in HRM.
- Three-hour sessions held once a week by faculty & industry experts.
Desired Candidate Profile
- Bachelors degree (10+2+3 or 10+2+4) or equivalent; or 2-year Masters degree or its equivalent from institutions or universities recognised by UGC/AICTE/AIU/DEB.
- Candidates should have 50% or higher in graduation to be eligible; marks for all (3 or 4) years to be included for calculating graduation percentage.
- Those candidates who have less than 50% marks in graduation but have more than 50% marks in post-graduation (from a recognized university) are also eligible for the programme.
- Candidates should be working at the time of filling the application form.
- Candidates should have a minimum of seven (7) years of full-time paid experience- at the time of application, which should be after the graduation degree/qualifying degree is complete.
- Final selection will be done by IIM Calcutta.
Course Modules
Module 1 : (Part A): Operational HRM - Link to SHRM
- Planning and executing recruitment and selection for different positions.
- Performance management for goal alignment, motivation, and development.
- Reward and compensation design to attract, retain, and motivate employees.
- Labour laws and its impact on businesses/organizations.
- Designing and running assessment/developmental centers.
- Developing competency framework.
- Implementing 360-degree feedback processes.
- Managing change.
- Transactional and transformational leadership.
- Understanding and mapping leadership styles (personality, big 5).
- Employee engagement.
- Developing your teams.
- Learning, coaching, and mentoring.
- Structural choices for effective organizational outcomes.
- Organization culture and its impact on organizational outcomes.
- Cross-cultural challenges.
- Strategy versus operations distinctions.
- Strategy formulation.
- Industry-level analysis.
- Competitive strategy.
- Resource-based view on firms.
- Value chain analysis.
- Planned versus emergent strategies.
- Universal, contingency, and configurational views on SHRM.
- Aligning HRM policies to the business strategies/organizational goals.
- Cost leadership, innovation, technology, differentiation on services, or quality.
- Fit/alignment analysis framework - Horizontal fit and vertical fit.
- Horizontal fit - HRM system properties of complementarities.
- Vertical fit - Balanced scorecard framework.
- HRM Flexibility to manage VUCA environment.
- Creating HR (Real) options to manage VUCA environment.
- Conglomerates versus standalone businesses - SHRM issues.
- HRM issues in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) - Due diligence of HRs and cultural integration.
- HRM issues in managing joint ventures (JVs) - Managing marriage of equals.
- International HRM - Institutional and cultural analytical framework.
- International HRM approaches - Geocentric, polycentric, ethnocentric.
- Managing expatriation and repatriation challenges.
- HRM issues in global production chains.
- Global institutional frameworks - WTO vs ILO; rights vs interest's debate.
- Analytics in HRM - Statistics.
- Understanding financial statements.