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Free online courseAdvances in Strategic Human Resources

Duration of the online course: 9 hours and 11 minutes

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Lead people strategy with confidence in this free online HR course—master talent, remote teams, diversity and modern HR metrics to earn a career-boosting certificate.

In this free course, learn about

  • Evolution of HR function and how HR’s role shifted from admin to strategic partner
  • Strategic HRM nature: aligning HR practices with business strategy and mission statements
  • Impact of the Hawthorne Experiment on modern HRM and employee-centric management
  • HR deliverables in strategic management and how HR effectiveness is measured
  • Competence Maturity Model & People CMM: developing organizational and people capabilities
  • Organizational healing: HR’s role in crisis response, recovery, and resilience building
  • Managing remote teams: expectations, practices, and sustaining productivity during pandemics
  • Restoring employees’ social/psychological well-being; Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
  • Talent management fundamentals: performance drivers and identifying critical talent segments
  • Using the Potential Matrix and Pareto principle (top 20%) to prioritize talent actions
  • HR digitization for talent management and benefits of digital HR processes
  • Positive employee relations and positive work practices that strengthen engagement and trust
  • Humanistic Management model vs economic view; linking values to HR processes
  • Diversity & inclusion foundations and organizational impacts of a diverse, inclusive workplace

Course Description

Modern organizations expect HR to do far more than administer policies. HR is now a strategic partner that shapes performance, culture, resilience and long-term value. This free online course helps you build that strategic lens by connecting core HR foundations with contemporary priorities such as digital transformation, talent decision-making, well-being at work and inclusive practices. Whether you are an HR professional, a people manager, or a business student aiming to strengthen your employability, you will learn to align people initiatives with organizational direction and measurable outcomes.

You will start by understanding how the HR function evolved and why that history matters for the way organizations are managed today. You will relate HR’s mission to business strategy, clarify what effective HR deliverables look like in a strategic management context, and explore practical ways to evaluate HR’s effectiveness. Rather than treating HR as a set of disconnected activities, the course emphasizes how strategy, systems and capabilities fit together to create sustainable results. You will also examine maturity models that help organizations systematically improve people practices, moving from ad-hoc approaches toward consistent, high-impact standards.

The course then turns to challenges that define the current workplace. You will explore how HR supports organizational healing during disruption, what it takes to keep remote teams productive, and how to restore social and psychological well-being when work patterns change. Along the way, you will consider the role of employee support mechanisms and the conditions that help people stay engaged, connected and effective, especially under uncertainty.

Building on this, you will develop a clear view of talent management as a strategic discipline. You will think in terms of performance drivers, identify how to differentiate and develop potential, and understand why a small group of top talent can disproportionately influence results. You will also learn how HR digitization strengthens talent management by improving speed, transparency and decision quality, while freeing time for higher-value work.

Finally, the course focuses on creating healthy, high-trust workplaces. You will examine positive employee relations, humanistic approaches to management, and the HR processes that build credibility and commitment. You will also look at diversity and inclusion as drivers of organizational strength, not just compliance. By the end, you will be prepared to speak the language of strategy, design people practices that fit real business needs, and make HR contributions visible through outcomes that matter.

Course content

  • Video class: Course Introduction - Advances in Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM)

    03m

  • Exercise: What is the focus of the course on advances in strategic Human Resource Management mentioned in the transcript?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 1A : The Evolution and Role of HR Function

    17m

  • Exercise: What significant role did the Hawthorne Experiment play in the development of Human Resource Management?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 1B : Evolution and Nature of Strategic Human Resource Management

    18m

  • Exercise: What is a mission statement?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 1C : Contributions of and Trends in HR Function

    12m

  • Exercise: What are the key deliverables of the HR function as discussed in the context of strategic management?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 1D : Measuring Effectiveness of HR Function

    15m

  • Exercise: Which of the following is a primary concern of HR managers in strategic human resource management?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 1E : Competence Maturity Model and People Competence Maturity Model

    13m

  • Exercise: What does the People CMM framework focus on?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 2A : Organizational Healing: An Introduction

    22m

  • Exercise: What is the main role of HR in organizational healing during a crisis?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 2B : Working with Remote Teams

    11m

  • Exercise: What is one of the key expectations from organizations for remote teams during the pandemic?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 2C : Restoring Social and Psychological Well-being

    03m

  • Exercise: What is a crucial step for HR to ensure remote teams remain effective during the pandemic?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 2D : Employee Assistance Program

    03m

  • Exercise: What is essential for restoring social well-being according to the discussed approach?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 3A : Talent Management: An Introduction

    14m

  • Exercise: What are the three factors affecting performance in Talent Management?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 3B : Potential Matrix: A Tool for Talent Management

    13m

  • Exercise: What percentage of top talent contributes to organizational success according to Pareto law?

  • Video class: Week 1 : Lecture 3C : HR Digitization for Talent Management

    12m

  • Exercise: What is one key benefit of digitized HR processes?

  • Video class: Week 2 : Lecture 4A : Positive Employee Relation: The Introduction

    10m

  • Exercise: What is a key indicator of positive employee-employer relationships?

  • Video class: Week 2 : Lecture 4B : Positive Work Practices in Organization

    15m

  • Exercise: What are the six positive practices identified in the study?

  • Video class: Week 2 : Lecture 4C : Humanistic Management Model

    19m

  • Exercise: What is the focus of Humanistic Management compared to traditional economic views?

  • Video class: Week 2 : Lecture 4D : Link of Humanistic Model and HR Processes

    14m

  • Exercise: What component is crucial for building trust between employees and the organization?

  • Video class: Week 2 : Lecture 4E : Process to make organization great place to work

    15m

  • Exercise: Which strategy contributes to building a great workplace environment?

  • Video class: Week 2 : Lecture 5A : Diversity Management: The Introduction

    18m

  • Exercise: What is the core of diversity at the workplace according to the transcript?

  • Video class: Week 2 : Lecture 5B : Significance of a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace

    08m

  • Exercise: What impact does diversity have on organizations according to the transcript?

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Course comments: Advances in Strategic Human Resources

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Rajendra raval, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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