EMSHRM: Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management - 10 months in Italy & Distance Learning

To develop high-potential managers and professionals for the most senior levels of HR positions. This is strategic.

Why choose the EMSHRM?

- Your goal is becoming a strategist in HR 

- You aim to international expanded horizons and the most senior positions

- You want to keep a parallel between your current career and your executive education

- You search a Business School with significant connections worldwide

EMSHRM offers you

• An international 10-months Executive Program that places an in-depth emphasis on the business context of HR management and leadership, focusing on the organizational and strategic issues influencing HR decisions.
• You’ll be prepared to advise top executives and to drive changes in complex organizational settings.
• You’ll be strategic yourself.

A fact: A collaboration between SDA Bocconi and Cornell University Faculty (CAHRS- Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies): a joint faculty, different HR contexts, a richer perspective.

Human Resource Management has recently acquired a central role in strategic and organizational decisions, posing a critical challenge for organizations worldwide. Organizations are increasingly called to face competitive challenges like globalization in markets and sourcing, new technologies, cost reductions, continuous change, corporate social responsibility, international mergers and acquisitions, talent attraction and development.

Consequently, HR executives are called to take on the role of strategic business partners at the top management level. HR managers must be capable of advising top executives and leading the organization through continuous change. The Executive Master in SHRM aims at addressing this most important need. The goal of the Master is to develop high-potential HR managers and professionals for the most senior levels of HR positions, providing them with the skills and knowledge to drive organizational performance through best practices in Human Resource Management.

The Master places an in-depth emphasis on the business context of HR management and leadership, focusing on the organizational and strategic issues influencing HR decisions. The Master is a stepping stone for high-potential HR managers wishing to take their career development to a strategic level, setting new challenges to fully exploit participants’ potential.

Teaching methods and structure

The Master includes a total of 36 days of face-to-face teaching, including 5 Saturdays , designed around 8 modules of 3-6 days. In order to measure their knowledge and learning outcomes against companies’ everyday practice and issues, participants are also called to engage in 4 individual project assignments, for approximately 40 days of work in distance learning.

Interested in learning more about the SDA Bocconi EMSHRM: Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management? Request Information from SDA Bocconi School of Management here

The EMSHRM: Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management has a number of admission requirements and a Selection criteria.
Candidates are carefully selected on the basis of an extensive review of

• Relevant work experience in Human Resource Management or related functions
• A degree in any discipline 
• Fluency in English (self-assessed)

Candidate Profile - Who is the program for?

The Executive Master is aimed at managers and professionals with experience in HR or related functions, or managers and professionals with a background in other functions, all in the process of taking on a role of increased responsibility in the HR function.

The Master is aimed at high-potential HR managers and professionals willing to engage in a demanding program to align their profiles with the strategic challenges faced by future leaders in HR in the global competitive arena.

Candidates must be highly motivated and committed to excellence, complementing intelligence and business acumen with enthusiasm and creativity.

The program is aimed at leading-edge companies willing to sponsor high-potential candidates toward strategic positions in Human Resource management.

Who joined the program since 2008?

• Average age: 35 years
• Average work experience: 11 years
• Average HR experience: 5 years
• Participants’ nationalities: American, Belgian, British, Danish, French, German, Korean, Italian, Serbian, Slovakian, Swiss.
• Some of the sponsoring companies: ABB, BT, Carraro SpA, Delta Maxi Group, Enel, ING Direct, Intesa San Paolo, ITT Motion Technologies, Maersk, National Suisse, Novartis, Pirelli, Prysmian, Sandoz, Starwood Hotels, Swedbank AB, Telecom.

Please contact SDA Bocconi to learn more about their admission requirements and the application process here

The mission of the Program is to support high-potential HR managers and professionals in developing the necessary competences to strengthen the strategic and leadership role of HR.

The Master emphasizes the close relationship between HR management and strategy, within an international setting which draws upon cutting-edge research and practice to develop methodologies and tools.The objectives of the program are the following:

• To increase individual knowledge and expertise through the discussion of HR strategies, models, methods and techniques;
• To develop problem-solving skills, through the discussion of cases and real accounts of corporate HR situations and decisions;
• To strengthen people management skills through teaching methods based on group work, case discussions, in-company activities, guest speakers and corporate testimonials.
• To pursue a hands-on learning experience, by immediately applying concepts and tools to the reality of one’s organizations through individual assignments.

Programme structure and curriculum

The structure of this EMSHRM: Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management has a modular approach, coupled with in-depth individual and team-based work, will allow individuals for a full immersion in class discussion while maintaining continuous contact with their organizations.

Module 1. People Strategy  

• Business strategy and governance
• Strategic decision making
• Roles of HR function
• Strategic capabilities
• Workforce differentiation
• The role of HR in mergers and acquisitions

Module 2. Finance  

• Financial statement analysis
• Performance indicators
• Business strategy and financial measures
• Discounted cash flow analysis of strategic initiatives
• The economic profile of finacing decisions. Capital structure issues
• The rationale for Mergers and Acquisitions
• Corporate finance in practice

Module 3. HR Performance 

• HR scorecard
• HR metrics
• HR information systems, knowledge management and learning

Module 4. HR Global and European Context  

• International HRM
• Globalization and labor market institutions
• Comparative industrial relations
• Migration and welfare systems
• Ageing, productivity and retirement
• Global HR Management
  > Decentralization and centralization
  > Managing HR in global value chains

Module 5. Talent Acquisition and Development  

• Employer branding and strategic staffing
• Career management and talent development
• Expatriation
• Diversity and intercultural management

Module 6. Organizational Design and Change  

• People strategy and organization
• Restructuring and downsizing
• Organizational design for innovation
• Organizational change and internal communication

Module 7. Performance Management and Compensation  

• Performance management
• Total Compensation
• Executive Compensation

Module 8. HR Leadership

• HR Leadership
• HR Competences:
  > Creative and strategic thinking
  > Communication and networking
  > Conflict and stress management
  > Coaching
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
  
  

Fees and expenses of this SDA Bocconi EMSHRM: Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management are € 33,000.

The tuition fee includes teaching and tutoring, business lunches and breaks, all materials, access to Bocconi University Library and the use of all School’s support facilities. Travel expenses and accommodation in Milan are not included. Participants could benefit from SDA Bocconi privileged agreements with Hotels for accommodation.

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