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Executive Programme in
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12 Months | Online | ₹4,10,000

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Strategic HRM – An Overview
Strategic HRM is about creating a coherently planned framework for employees to be
hired, managed and developed in ways that drive the behaviour and climate needed to
create value and support an organisation’s long-term goals.

Strategic Human Resource Management

Human Resource
Strategy
Management

Strategic deployment Use of an integrated array

of committed and of cultural, structural, and
capable workforce personnel techniques

To be a better fit with To achieve a

the business strategy competitive
and provide value advantage

Achieve business objectives

through smart people management
Human Resources Activities
Primary source of HR programmes &
competitive advantage of activities for deploying
the firm people to gain
competitive advantage

Components
of SHRM

Purposeful Pattern & Plan

People, activities, and The 'FIT' between HR strategy
plans are directed and the firm's business strategy
toward the achievement and all HR activities
of organisational goals

Source: MGKVP University

In-demand Skills
Earlier, HR professionals required technical, people, and soft skills. However, with
the inclusion of data and technology, you need to hone a few new-age skills as well
to be capable to make data-driven decisions to facilitate employee and
organisational growth.

People & Soft Skills Technical Skills Technology Skills

• Attention to detail • HR software • Big data

• Confidentiality • HR Information System • Fundamentals of
• Communication (HRIS) analytics
• Initiative-taking • Talent management • Business change
• Planning systems management
• Problem-solving • Training facilitation • People analytics
• Proactiveness • Compensation and benefits • Language processing
• Time management management • Predictive algorithms
• Conflict resolution • Corporate laws
• Leadership • Labour laws

The demand for HR professionals is on the rise given the growing entrepreneurial
activity across the nation and their need to manage their talent. In the Strategic
HRM domain, one can work as a generalist taking care of all the responsibilities,
or as a specialist in strategising the workforce plans, recruitment, rewards and
benefits, employee and labour relations, risk management, etc. However, with
talent and experience, you can take your career to higher positions as an HR
Manager, Staffing Manager, Employee Relations Manager, Safety Manager, HR
Director, or Chief Human Resources Officer.
Programme Overview
IIM Calcutta’s Executive Programme in Strategic Human Resource
Management (EPSHRM) while recapitulating participants’ knowledge
of the HRM domain at an operational level, seeks to build on it to
develop a strategic perspective. This comprehensive programme will
not only introduce you to key principles, policies, and practices of
human resource management, but will also make you future job-ready.
The programme begins with a brief overview of basics of HRM,
employee/industrial relations, leadership and talent management,
organisational culture, followed by an overview of basics of strategy,
both business and corporate strategy, and then on the link between
strategy and HRM. The programme also covers general management
topics that are relevant for SHRM, along with contemporary issues such
as international HRM, managing platform economy workers, evolving
issues in employee/industrial relations, HR Analytics, and millennial
workers.

Programme Highlights

Designed to equip
Campus immersion
managers with global
module of 5 days
best practices in HRM

Three-hour sessions held

Unique blend of
once a week by faculty &
multidisciplinary subjects
industry experts

IIM Calcutta Executive

Education Alumni status
Learning Outcomes
After completing this programme, the participants should
be able to:

Distinguish between strategic and

operational HRM

Understand business strategy and

corporate strategy

Understand the relationship between strategic

HRM, and business and corporate strategy

Understand the integration of HRM with marketing,

finance, and operations

Understand the contemporary

developments and challenges in HRM and
employee/industrial relations
Programme Curriculum

Module I

(Part A): Operational HRM – Link to SHRM

• Manpower planning issues
• Planning and executing recruitment and selection for different positions
• Performance management for goal alignment, motivation, and
development
• Reward and compensation design to attract, retain, and motivate
employees
• Labour laws and its impact on businesses/organisations

(Part B): Consultative Role of HR Managers

• Designing and running assessment/developmental centers
• Developing competency framework
• Implementing 360 degree feedback processes
• Managing change

Module 2

(Part A): Leadership and Talent Management at Work Place

• Transactional and transformational leadership
• Understanding and mapping leadership styles (personality, big 5)
• Employee engagement
• Developing your teams
• Learning, coaching, and mentoring

(Part B): Formal and Informal Organisation

• Structural choices for effective organisational outcomes
• Organisation culture and its impact on organisational outcomes
• Cross-cultural challenges
Module 3

Understanding Strategic Management

• Strategy versus operations distinctions
• Strategy formulation
• Industry level analysis
• Competitive strategy
• Resource-based view on firms
• Value chain analysis
• Planned versus emergent strategies

Module 4

Business Strategies and SHRM

• HR Manager as a business partner
• Universal, contingency, and configurational views on SHRM
• Aligning HRM policies to the business strategies/organisational goals –
Cost leadership, innovation, technology, differentiation on services, or
quality
• Fit/alignment analysis framework – Horizontal fit and vertical fit
• Horizontal fit – HRM system properties of complementarities
• Vertical fit – Balanced scorecard framework
• HRM flexibility to manage VUCA environment
• Creating HR (Real) options to manage VUCA environment
• Institutional context and industrial relations
Module 5

Corporate Strategies and HRM and International HRM

• Conglomerates versus standalone businesses – SHRM issues
• HRM issues in M&A – Due diligence of HRs and cultural integration
• HRM issues in managing JVs – Managing marriage of equals
• HRM issues in turnaround management – Asset retrenchment and
revival
• International HRM – Institutional and cultural analytical framework
• International HRM approaches – Geocentric, polycentric, ethnocentric
• Managing expatriation and repatriation challenges
• HRM issues in global production chains
*Indicative number; actual number of sessions in modules may vary. Each session will be of 3 hours duration.
• Global institutional frameworks – WTO vs ILO; Rights vs Interests debate

Module 6

General Management Module

• Analytics in HRM – Statistics
• Understanding financial statements

Campus Module

• Contemporary issues in HRM – GIG economy and workers,

contemporary concerns for work and workers
• Applying marketing to HRM – Employer branding
• Application of emerging technologies to HRM processes – AI, chatbots
and so on
• Economics of HRM
• HRM analytics
• Designing and implementing experiential learning and development
exercises

*Indicative number; actual number of sessions in modules may vary. Each session will be of 3 hours duration.
Pedagogy
The teaching approach will be highly interactive and deploy diverse pedagogical
tools and techniques including lectures, case studies, live corporate examples,
and general discussions. In order to provide greater industry insights,
practitioners would also be invited to share their experiences.

Programme Delivery
Sessions will be conducted via a state-of-the-art Interactive Learning (IL) platform
and delivered in Direct-to-Device (D2D) mode that can be accessed by learners on
their Desktop, Laptop, Tablet or Smartphone. Participants will be provided
reading materials, etc., for each course. They may also interact with the concerned
faculty through e-mails/chat mode.

Campus Immersion
Schedule There will be 5 days of campus immersion at IIM
Sunday Calcutta, which will be scheduled towards the
12:15 PM – 3:15 PM middle or end of the programme. It is
mandatory for participants to attend the
campus visit for successful completion of the
Duration programme. The campus visit will be conducted
subject to the evolving pandemic situation and
12 months will depend on government and institute
regulations, advisories, and guidelines related to
the pandemic. In case the campus module is not
confirmed due to any reason, the same will be
included in the total number of online sessions.
 Eligibility Criteria
• Bachelor’s degree (10+2+3 or 10+2+4) or equivalent; or 2-year
Master’s degree or its equivalent from institutions or universities
recognised by UGC/AICTE/AIU/DEB
• Candidates should have 50% or higher in graduation to be eligible.
Marks for all (3 or 4) years to be included for calculating graduation
percentage
• Those candidates who have less than 50% marks in graduation but
have more than 50% marks in post-graduation (from a recognised
university) are also eligible for the programme
• Candidates should be working at the time of filling the application
form
• Candidates should have a minimum of seven (7) years of full-time paid
experience at the time of application. This should be after the
graduation degree/qualifying degree is complete
• Final selection will be done by IIM Calcutta
**
Internships and trainee experiences will not be considered in full-time work experience.

Who Should Attend?

• Middle and top-level managers with at least
seven years of work/industry experience
• HRM background is not necessary

Admission Criteria
• Participants will be selected on the basis of
their overall profile
• Select applicants may be interviewed by
Programme Directors, if required

Attendance Criteria
• A minimum of 66% attendance is a
prerequisite for the successful completion of
the programme
• Participants with less than 66% attendance
will not be permitted to appear for the exams
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Assessment & Evaluation

• Continuous evaluation components consisting of class participation, case
discussions, assignments, quiz, project presentations, and final examination
• Examination/evaluation shall be conducted by IIM Calcutta
• Participants will be given any one of the following grades: “Excellent”; “Good”;
“Fair”; or “Poor.” The cut-off marks for the grades will be revealed but not the
actual marks obtained

Certification & Alumni Status

• Candidates who meet the minimum attendance criteria and do not receive
'Poor' grades in more than two courses will receive a 'Certificate of Completion'
and the course-wise grades obtained will be mentioned in the certificate
• Candidates who meet the minimum attendance criteria but receive 'Poor'
grades in more than two courses will receive a 'Certificate of Participation'. In
such cases, the grade will not be mentioned in the certificate
• Successful participants will also be accorded IIM Calcutta Executive Education
Alumni status

*All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion
of IIM Calcutta.
Programme Directors
Amit Dhiman is a Professor in the Human Resource
Management Group and has been associated with IIMC
since 2008. He is a Fellow of IIM Ahmedabad and holds
a master’s degree in Human Resource Management and
BE degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked for
more than seven years in industry in the private sector,
mainly in Human Resource Management and
Organisational Development functions. He has
Prof. Amit Dhiman research, teaching, and consulting interests in the areas
of Performance Management, Accountability, Stress
Management, Strategic Human Resource Management,
and Human Resource Management in Services. In above
areas and others, he has publications in acclaimed
international journals. He has done consulting for
organisations in private sector, public sector,
government, and NGOs across industries such as Oil,
Education, Housing Finance and so on. He has got
training in various pedagogies at prestigious institutions
including Harvard Business School.

Professor Dharma Raju Bathini is a member of the HRM

Group at IIM Calcutta. He holds a Ph.D. in ‘Organisation
Behaviour’ from IIM Ahmedabad and a BTech from NIT
Warangal. He has inter-disciplinary interests in teaching
as well as research. He has published in high-quality
international journals and case outlets. His research
specialises in Flexible Work Arrangements (e.g., Work
From Home); Platform/Gig Work; International HRM;
Prof. Dharma Raju and Work stress. He has designed and delivered OB&HR
Bathini training programmes of both long and short durations.
His teaching speciality is in International HRM; Strategic
HRM; and Managing Work Stress. Before joining
academia, he led change initiatives and IR conflict
resolutions at large-scale manufacturing units. He also
led project teams that set up large-scale green-field
manufacturing units for automotive parts.
Programme Fees

Particulars Amount (₹)*

Processing Fee** 15,000

(Collected at the time of application)

Total Course Fee

(Excluding Registration Fee and including On-campus Stay***) 4,10,000

Note:
• *GST (currently @ 18%) will be additional as applicable.
• **Processing Fee of ₹15,000 includes ₹9,500 towards the Registration Fee and
₹5,500 towards the Programme Fee.
• ***Campus Stay – Candidates to be accommodated on the campus on a
twin-sharing basis
• In case the Applicant’s profile is rejected by IIM Calcutta then the initial
amount paid at the time of registration shall be refunded subject to a
deduction of ₹2,500 by way of administrative charges.
• All fees are payable to TEEL.
• Any extra payment due to any change in any of the applicable taxes during
the tenure of the programme will have to be borne by the students.
Instalment Schedule

Installment Date Amount (₹)*

At the time of application 5,500

I
Within one week of offer 97,000

II 10th March, 2023 1,02,500

III 10th June, 2023 1,02,500

IV 10th September, 2023 1,02,500

*GST @18% is applicable

Programme Timelines

Application Closure Date 3rd September, 2022

Programme Start Date 11th December, 2022

Programme End Date December 2023

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