Human resource management

In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, the changes in the external environment can affect the workplace and its employees. The impacts can have numerous influences on human resource management (HRM) that plays an important role in attaining and sustaining firms in the competitive market. This unit introduces the fundamentals of HRM, its strategic role in organisations, HRM activities, and challenges faced by HRM in contemporary contexts. Topics such as HRM models and perspectives, current challenges of HRM, human resource planning, job design, staffing, performance management, training and development, and reward management.