Postgraduate Course: Global Talent Management (CMSE11284)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | In the last decade or so global talent management (GTM) has received considerable practitioner and academic interest ¿ driven by organizational concerns over ¿talent wars¿, skill shortages, rapid internationalization as well as long-lasting transformational changes in the business economy such as a shift towards a knowledge economy. This course is designed to integrate the multinational enterprise perspective along with a comparative perspective by specifically considering global talent management (GTM) policies and practices against the international business backdrop. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Lecture Hours 20,
Other Study Hours 127,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
0 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Preparation - 62hours, Research - 20hours, Writing up - 10hours, Exam revision - 35hours
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
35 %,
Practical Exam
15 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework - 35%
Practical Exam - 15%
Written Exam - 50% |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Global Talent Management (CMSE11284) | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Knowledge and Understanding
After completing this course, students should be able to:
* Explore the conceptual apparatus and theoretical debates informing global talent management (GTM);
* Undertake and evaluate succession planning and leadership development with a view to building sustainable organisational performance;
* Synthesise and evaluate complex debates in the subject area. - Intellectual skills
On completion of the course, students should:
* Be able to discern and comment critically upon the chief institutional and organisational variables driving managerial approaches to global talent management;
* Display in written work developing abilities to digest, synthesise and critically evaluate contrasting perspectives from the literature in reaching sustainable/practical conclusions. - Professional/subject-specific/practical skills
On completion of the course students should:
* Appreciate the importance of global talent management policies and practices for multinational firms, and have a firm understanding of how to design, implement and evaluate talent management strategies;
* Have secured an understanding of the ethical implications of global talent management and acquired sensitivity towards practice-oriented concerns such as issues of organisational justice, silos mentality, diversity implications etc.
* Have the ability to locate appropriate academic and practitioner resources on key talent management debates;
* Have improved their analytical, writing - Transferable skills
On completion of the course students should be able to:
* Competently present, communicate and exchange ideas in both large and small group settings;
* Gather, analyse and use information in order to present a balanced argument.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sara Chaudhry
Tel: (0131 6)51 5672
Email: Sara.Chaudhry@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Peter Newcombe
Tel: (0131 6)51 3013
Email: Peter.Newcombe@ed.ac.uk |
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