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 ż driven by organizational concerns over żtalent warsż, 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)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 150 ( Lecture Hours 20, Other Study Hours 127, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 0 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	Preparation - 62hours, Research - 20hours, Writing up - 10hours, Exam revision - 35hours
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 35 %, Practical Exam 15 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Coursework - 35% Practical Exam - 15% Written Exam - 50%
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
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.