Singapore University of Social Sciences

HCM551 Human Capital Management in the New Normal, provides a contemporary overview of how organisations manage, engage, and grow their most important asset, people. Human capital refers to the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of an organisation’s workforce. The course examines demographic changes and workforce diversity, recruiting strategies, selection techniques, work design challenges, learning and development, performance feedback, employee influence, motivation and reward, as well as ethical issues in human capital management. In view of the profound changes in labour market and employment relations during the Covid-19 period, these new trends, policies and practices require an up-to-date examination.