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Dec 14, 2025
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MGT 5031 - Talent Acquisition and Strategic Management
This course is a deep dive into the strategic management aspects of talent acquisition, development and succession planning for organizational performance, sustainability and longevity. The course examines talent management from the enterprise or macro firm perspective and then share specific processes and tools for delivering results. Through agile teaming, complex business cases and in-class conversations with talent management scholars and executives, students investigates the essential contribution of talent for executing business strategy while ensuring individual, team and cultural alignment aspects. The course utilizes historical and modern perspectives of talent management, as well as numerous theories of human resource management and organizational behavior. For learning discovery, the course instructional design features a strong focus on team-based projects, consultative case analysis, simulations and in-class discussions to provide practical examples of effective and ineffective strategic talent management. Course content is explored from both a personal perspective and a professional business manager, or human resource professional perspective.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to discuss personal philosophical perspectives on how talent and human potential are best developed, and the difference between having a growth or fixed mindset for talent development.
- Students will be able to make talent related decisions using the Talent On Demand model, along with a number of other optional approaches.
- Students will be able to create a job description, prepare a market analysis and recruiting strategy, and determine critical candidate assessment criteria.
- Students will be able to assess valid and reliable selection predictors to assist you in making selection decisions.
- Students will be able to use the 9 Box talent assessment and development tool, complete basic readiness assessment and succession planning processes, and map career paths.
- Students will be able to demonstrate current events knowledge of strategic management, leadership and human capital given your readings and in-class executive conversations.
- Students will be able to identify and describe fundamental elements of effective strategic talent management.
- Students will be able to assess legal and ethical ramifications of various talent management approaches.
- Students will be able to diagnose talent related issues in organizations and make value added recommendations
- Students will be able to describe the linkage between business strategy, talent management and the human resources function (HR function design, HR and business roles, tactics and evaluation).
- Students will be able to demonstrate the elements of professional presence through high performance teaming and consultative presentation delivery.
- Students will be able to manage the attraction, development and retention of an entry-level talent process.
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