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Global Human Resources Management

The relentless forces of globalization are seeing the emergence of corporate entities where the distinguishing boundaries between headquarters countries and overseas operations are diminishing. Human talent moves across nations and creates synergies in productive interfaces with technology and organizations. The challenges posed to organizations are to manage and address the issues arising out of the emergent reality.

The Global Human Resources specialization in the GMBA program pioneers the delivery of contemporary content in the domain to fulfill the need of companies for HR professionals trained to manage and lead the corporations of tomorrow. With a sound foundation of expertise in management and the human resources function, this program gives an edge to the student with contemporary knowledge in the art and science of managing a global workforce.

Both Singapore and Dubai are melting pots of diverse workforces from all nations across the world. Some of the toughest challenges of managing this diversity are being positively managed in these countries. There are many problems being solved and best practices evolving in the HR profession. Students of the GHRM stream will engage with corporations consisting of these diverse workforces and learn from this interaction.

The nature of the HR profession is changing. Challenges of managing knowledge workers in democratic frameworks call for a high degree of interpersonal skills as well as knowledge of management processes and practices in this domain. Companies today are in dire need of professionally trained managers to help deal with these challenges. Students of the GHRM Specialization will find themselves fully equipped to deal with issues and challenges and to meet the needs of the corporate world today. Our program provides an in-depth focus on current knowledge of talent management processes and HR domains. The program also conceives of a special input of a five day off-site process lab intended to build personal and interpersonal sensitivity that is required of today's HR professional. This input gives an opportunity to gain a 'process' level understanding of human context in organizations and paves the way for higher degree of sensitivity to others and to self.

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