Strategic Management (HRCI/PHR - aligned)


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including strategic management. The HRCI certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating HR professionals' competencies. HRCI is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and provides testing and certification services. As an HR professional, you are involved in developing the business strategy to achieve organizational goals. Toward that end, this course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations with regard to strategic management. In this course, you'll learn about such things as dealing with change, corporate governance, and the strategic planning process. All the topics in this course are based on the Strategic Management functional area of the HR Body of Knowledge recommended by SHRM. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the law, the information in this course may become outdated.

Target Audience
HR professionals who are preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's certification examination

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Dealing with Change

  • recognize the benefits of understanding how to deal with change.
  • identify how HR can become a strategic partner in an organization.
  • match strategic business drivers to examples of their impact on HR functions.
  • recognize the role of HR professionals in managing, supporting, and communicating organizational change.

    • Corporate Governance

  • recognize the benefits of knowing about corporate governance.
  • identify the major provisions to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
  • recognize examples of topics contained in a code of ethics and professional conduct.

    • The Organization's Strategic Planning Process

  • recognize the benefits of understanding strategic planning in an organization.
  • match the organization examples to their appropriate places on the organizational life cycle.
  • match the generic strategies to the organization that should be using that strategy.
  • recognize how departmentation and centralization provide a strategic framework for organizations.
  • match HR strategies to each stage in an employee life cycle.
  • sequence the stages in the strategic planning process.
  • recognize external factors that should be included in an environmental scan in a given scenario.
  • recognize internal factors that should be included in an environmental scan in a given scenario.

    • Course Number:
    HR0262