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Part A: Basic Details

Name of Course Human Resource Planning (HRPH23-1)

Course Instructor(s) Anita Sarkar

(please provide email id) anitasarkar@xlri.ac.in
Academic Associate(s) Violeena Chachra
(please provide email id) violeena@xlri.ac.in

Area Human Resource Management

Program HRM (2023-2025)

Term First Term

Type of Course
Core
(Core/Elective/Workshop)

Number of Credits 2

Number of Classroom Contact

13 sessions
Hours
Course Pre-requisites (if any,
including cut-off grades in
specific core courses)

Course Textbook ---

Course Handout to be Provided

Yes
(Yes/No)
No. of Sessions to be taken by
---
Guest Faculty
Name of Guest Faculty (if
---
identified)

Part B: About the Course

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Course Description To respond to the changes in both internal and

Course Learning Objectives
Who is the course suitable for? (for electives
only)
external labor market planning of human
resource requirements becomes a vital task for
any business enterprise. This course aims at
imparting essential knowledge required to
perform the functions of human resource
planning within an organization.
• Familiarize participants with basic
concepts, tools and techniques of human
resources planning
• Familiarize participants with both
strategic and tactical aspects of manpower
planning

Part C: AOL - Learning Goals Mapping at the Course Level*

AOL Learning Goal (PLO) Relevance for Course (put a tick)

Decision Making

Please indicate the rationale for choosing the Response: Participants are expected to visualize
specific learning goal(s) for this course problem in different contexts, and based on
analysis need to take decisions in organizational
planning contexts.

*Description appended at the end of the document

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Session Plan*

Chapters from Course Textbook Pedagogy (Case Studies/in-class

Session and Reading Material other than exercise/questionnaire/presentations)
Session Topic Course Learning Objectives
No(s) Case Studies
Day 8 Recruitment Planning # Case: We googled you.
Day 1-2 Introduction Aligning HR with Strategy Chapter 2 # Case: Domestic Parts.
Employer Branding
# Case: MOD Pizza: A winning recipe?

Day 9 Day 3 Planning

Selection Job Analysis Functional
# Case: knowledge
Values based in selection at LinkedIn.
candidate Chapter 4  Class Exercise
the context of Job analysis
SG Cowen.

Day 4-5 Determining HR Demand Functional knowledge on Chapter 5 to 7 # Case: Mahananda Mittens
Ascertaining HR Supply ascertaining HR Demand Manufacturing.
Downsizing and Restructuring # Case: Jet Airways
and supply
Day 10
(Chapter 10)  Note on Managing Workforce reductions. # Case: Powertech India.
 Note On Managing the layoff process : India
# Case: Unilever’s response to the
Day 11 Strategic International HRM # Case: future of work.

(Chapter 11) EY People advisory services: Challenges of enabling global mobility.

Day 6-7 Succession Planning Succession
Colgate Management
Palmolive. Chapter 8 # Case: Succession and Failure.
# Case: Chorus and Telecom: Building
the Boards (A)
 Class Exercise
Day 12 Mergers and Acquisitions # Case:

(Chapter 12) Ultratech and Jaypee Merger: Integrating culture and people.

Tata Corus

 Note On Making mergers work

 Note on: Making the Deal Real:
How GE Capital Integrates Acquisitions

 Note on: Not All M&As Are3Alike—and

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Day 13 Outsourcing (Chapter 13) # Case: Google: To TVC(temporary vendor contractor) or not to TVC?

& Summarization
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Note: - The course instructor may modify the sequence of topics or coverage based on initial experience and the mid-course review.

For Attendance Norms please refer to section 10 of the Student’s Manual.

For Evaluation and Grading Norms refer to sections 20, 21 and 22 of the Student’s Manual.

For Disciplinary Action refer to sections 26 and 27 of the Student’s Manual.

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Details of Evaluation Components

Evaluation Module Yes/No Weightage for the PLO sub-dimension measured Average Number of Hours of Work
Evaluation Component1 Outside Classroom2
Mid-Term As per the policies of the institute, the
total contact hours per course for a
End-Term Yes 40% Narrowing on the solution student is in the ratio 30:70
(classroom contact hours: outside of
classroom contact hours).
Quizzes Yes 20% Visualization of problem

Assignments Yes 10% Visualization of problem

Class Participation

Project Yes 30% Analysis of the information

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