PgDip in Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Mode and SchedulePart-time Weekend Mode, with one intensive module on a weekend (Saturday and Sunday) each month, the entire programme is completed in approximately 18 months.
LocationAll students will attend the Inauguration Ceremony-cum-Residential Workshop. After that, the modules will then be held in five learning centres in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Chengdu respectively. To enhance students' learning experience and create an enriching communication and sharing platform, the Institute will make appropriate arrangements for students to attend classes at different learning centres.
Medium of TeachingPutonghua, supplemented with English.

From Talent to Organisation, Enabling a Leap of Strategic HR

The world is experiencing profound and unprecedented changes since the recent century in the face of post-pandemic era, increasingly complex global political and economic environment, intensifying market competition and even cross-industries disruptions, with the roaring technological waves of artificial intelligence/ChatGPT, Internet of Things, new energy, new materials, etc., as well as organisation management model innovation driven by the growth of Generation Z employees…  The rapid evolving and intertwining internal and external environmental dynamics bring continuous challenges and impacts to organisations, but also offer immense opportunities.

From talent competition to organisation development, it is crucial for corporate success or failure. In the present and future where challenges and opportunities coexist, HR professionals cannot be content with the "operational mode of the six HR modules". Instead,  they must strive to transcend and leap to strategic HR leaders who can enhance their overall capabilities holistically –-- participating in building enterprise strategy and facilitating its implementation with business perspectives, energizing organisations through transformation initiatives, seizing future opportunities by embracing digital and intelligent trend proactively. Only in this way can HR continue to evolve and help companies stay ahead in today and tomorrow.

SHRM Programme is particularly designed for these changing times, integrating systemically the most cutting-edge international knowledge across disciplines such as human resource management, organisation development, change management, business management, psychology, etc. It connects various insights with business reality and requirements in China, bridging theory and practice.  The programme empowers HR professionals all-round with knowledge breadth, thinking height and professional depth, enabling the leap of HR from a tactical function to a strategic driver for corporate development.

Programme Design

By weaving the systemic view and methodologies of Organisation Development (OD) throughout the entire program design, integrated with business management perspectives and forward-looking lens towards digital and intelligent trends, interdisciplinary strengths are leveraged to elevate holistic practice of strategic HR Management.
 

 

Programme Objectives

 

On completion of the programme, students should be able to:

  • Enhance comprehensive HR strategic management capabilities in response to environmental changes and the needs of  enterprises;
  • Cultivate systemic thinking of organisation development and integrate for strategic HR transformation;
  • Broaden business management perspectives for enhancing strategic height;
  • Foresee the impact of digital and intelligent trends for capturing future opportunities in HR management and organisation;
  • Solve organisational and HR management problems through the application of interdisciplinary learning;
  • Make use of frontend business knowledge to establish good internal and external relationship with different business partners and the community.

Programme Features

According to the development needs of enterprises in China, this program systemically integrates the most cutting-edge international interdisciplinary knowledge, including human resource management, organisation development, change management, business management, psychology, etc.; The program enables students to achieve a leap of strategic HR by mastering comprehensive theories, applying pragmatic methods and tools and solving specific organisation problems:

 

  • Strategic Height

  • Systemic Thinking

  • Proactive Foresight

 

 

Programme Content

  • Inauguration Ceremony-cum-Residential Workshop
  • Strategic HR Management and Organisation Development
  • Strategy Planning and Business Model
  • Financial Analysis and Business Decisions
  • Talent Supply Chain and Talent Development Systems
  • Agile Performance Management and Total Reward Motivation
  • Corporate Culture and Diversity and Inclusion
  • HR Analytics and Organisational Diagnosis
  • Organisation Effectiveness Optimisation and Enhancement
  • Psychology of Organisational Change
  • HR Management Digital and Intelligent Transformation
  • Final Project

Teaching Members’ Qualifications

This programme is taught by senior executives  from Fortune global 500 multinational corporations and well-known Chinese corporations, as well as  experts and scholars from global institutions. They all possess extensive management experience and international perspectives, thus providing students with a full range of professional theoretical knowledge, prospective learning and practical guidance.

Teaching Members
Kitty Chen

陈静女士
Ms. Kitty Chen

Academic Stream Leader (Human Capital Management); Former senior executive of multinational corporates; Nearly 20 years of corporate management experience; ICF certified coach

Terence Chung

宗建钰博士
Dr. Terence Chung

Adjunct Associate Professor; Founder of Integral Training & Consulting Ltd.; PhD in Organisation Development & Change

House  Hao

郝永刚博士
Dr. House Hao

Academic Advisor & Adjunct Associate Professor; Chief Consultant of Organizational Evolution; Founder of Shanghai Wencheng Huayu Management Consulting Agency

Alan Ji

季亮先生
Mr. Alan Ji

Part-time Lecturer, Head of Asia-Pacific Human Resources at a Fortune 500 Company, Author of "People Make the Difference"(《成事在人》), Expert at the Chinese Enterprise Talent Development Think Tank

Ray Li

李锐博士
Dr. Ray Li

Adjunct Professor; Director of Multiple Publicly Listed Companies and Technology Innovation Enterprises; Former Group Finance Director and Executive Committee member of PingAn Group

Yonghua Lin

林咏华女士
Ms. Yonghua Lin

Part-time Lecturer; Vice President and CTO of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence; Former Director of IBM China Research Lab; Member of IEEE Women in Engineering Asia Pacific Leadership Team

Wei Wei

韦玮先生
Mr. Wei Wei

Part-time Lecturer; Founder & CEO of McKinsey Academy; Founder & CEO of Digital Cube; Vice President of SAP Greater China

Anna Zhang

张咏博士
Dr. Anna Zhang

Part-time Lecturer; Former HR Head of Asia Region in Hager Group; HRVP and General Operation VP for Large-Scale Private Enterprises in China

Fees and Charges

Application fee:

500 RMB

Tuition fee:

118,000 HKD

Meals and travel expenses:

Students are responsible for their own accommodation and transportation during the programme. If the Inauguration Ceremony-cum-Workshop is held offline, accommodation during the period will be arranged by the Institute and the costs will be covered accordingly.

Programme Enquiries

Beijing
Daniel Wang - (010) 6596 9929

Shanghai
Tina Liu - (021) 5067 5009

Shenzhen
Jolene Wang - (0755) 2360 4039

Guangzhou
Bella Wei  - (020) 8883 6181
ChengDu
Louis Cheng  - (028) 8445 6528