everything.study
15.660

Strategic HR Management

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2003

Topics

  • The Strategic Importance of HR
  • Strategic Execution and Economic Value: Internal and External Alignment
  • Work Systems
  • The Role of the HR Function
  • Self-Managed Teams
  • Participation and Involvement
  • Training and Development
  • Culture
  • Performance Appraisal
  • Diversity
  • Information Sharing
  • Benefits
  • Compensation Systems
  • Pay for Performance
  • Non-Profit Management
  • Managing Service Workers
  • Alignment and Motivation
  • Review & Wrap-up

Readings

  • Case, John. “Opening the Books.” Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review , March-April 1997, pp. 118-127. Reprint No. 97201.
    Listed reading
  • Kaplan, R. S. and D. P. Norton. “Linking the Balanced Scorecard to Strategy.” California Management Review 39, no. 1, Fall 1996.
    Listed reading
  • Pfeffer, Jeffrey. “Can You Manage With Unions.” Chap. 8 in The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First , 2000, pp. 225-251.
    Listed reading
  • “Six Dangerous Myths About Pay.” Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review , May-June 1998, pp. 109-119. Reprint No. 98309.
    Listed reading
  • The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998, chapters 1 and 2.
    Listed reading
  • Rubinstein, Saul R. and Thomas A. Kochan. Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University/ILR Press, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Simons, Robert. “Control in an Age of Empowerment.” Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review , March 1995. Reprint No. 95211.
    Listed reading
  • Thomas, David A. and Robin J. Ely. “Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity.” Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review , September-October 1996, pp. 80-90.
    Listed reading
  • Ulrich, Dave. Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998, pp. 23-31 and 231-254.
    Listed reading
  • Wageman, Ruth. “Critical Success Factors for Creating Superb Self-Managing Teams.” Organizational Dynamics . Summer 1997, pp. 49-61.
    Listed reading
Sources