Course List

This module explores contemporary themes and issues associated with HRM from a critical and multi-dimensional perspective. It facilitates an analytical review of current practice and thinking in HRM, clarifies the complexities of organizational functioning and issues facing contemporary workplaces. It also evaluates through the application of different theories, the nature of contemporary organizations and key aspects of the management of people within organizations.

This course aims to expose and familiarize students with key ideas in entrepreneurial thinking. It introduces students to the processes by which entrepreneurs identify business ideas, assess and analyze their feasibility and develop strategies to convert them into successful business. Additionally, it exposes students to the best practices employed in developing high quality internationally competitive goods and services.

This course introduces students to the organisational models and designs that will most effectively procure, integrate, develop, protect, compensate and maintain the human resources of the organisation. Students will be exposed to a cross-section of Caribbean cases and readings and will analyse the implications of these practices for the development of the region.

This course is designed to give you an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects relating to how organizations in the public and private sectors operate in an environment where it is critical to develop and implement strategies in order to gain and or maintain competitive advantage. The course requires also that you reflect on the knowledge gained from previous courses. Some of the major concepts that will be covered include, SWOT analysis, vision and mission, competitive analysis, corporate, competitive and global strategies, value chain analysis, competitive advantage and successful strategy execution, among others.

Credits: 3

Topics covered in this course include strategies and structure of multinational and global enterprise, evaluation of political risk, foreign location decisions and entry options, legal issues in the international business environment, international product and market portfolio diversification strategies, opportunity analysis and threat identification in the international environment, managing foreign exchange risk, tax environment and the control and management of foreign operations.