Course Title: HR/IR Consulting Skills

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: HR/IR Consulting Skills

Credit Points: 12


Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

BUSM1055

City Campus

Postgraduate

630H Management

Face-to-Face

Sem 2 2006,
Sem 2 2007,
Sem 2 2008

Course Coordinator: Alan Nankervis

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1650

Course Coordinator Email:alan.nankervis@rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

BUSM 1051 Human Resource Management A


Course Description

This course explores the consulting skills required of HR/IR practitioners and managers in both internal and external organisational contexts. This will include analysis of consulting frameworks and consulting roles as well as examining some common dilemmas encountered when working as a HR/IR consultant. The term consultant is used here in the broad sense of providing the organisation with appropriate expertise, help and guidance in resolving HR/IR issues.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

The aim of the course is to provide an opportunity for students to apply their HRM/IR skills to a ’real’ organisational issue outside their usual working environment.

Capabilities

The course aims to: 
* develop the capacity for data gathering, diagnosis and action planning around identified HRM/IR issues.

* develop the capacity for critical reviews of HRM literature; and to

*experience and understand the consulting issues when working with organisational clients.

* provide opportunity to propose solutions to actual HRM/IR challenges.

*provide students with the oportunity to experience group supervision and gain a deeper appreciation of consulting team dynamics.


The aim of the course is to provide an opportunity for you to further develop your HR/IR skills to relation to ’real’ organisational issues both inside and outside your usual working environment.

By the end of the course, you should have:
• developed an understanding of the consulting process
• gained an understanding of the consulting issues when working with internal and external organisational clients;
• had an opportunity to consider issues in developing consultant/client relationships
• had an opportunity to propose solutions to actual HR/IR challenges, and
• developed a deeper appreciation of consulting team dynamics
• developed the capacity for data gathering, diagnosis and action planning around identified HR/IR issues, and
• extended your capacity for critical reviews of HR/IR literature.


Overview of Learning Activities

  Learning activities may include lectures and seminars, supervised group work, discussion of consulting experiences.


Overview of Learning Resources

There may be a prescribed textbook, as well as recommended readings.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment may include a consultant’s report and an individual reflection paper.