Micro Master’s Degree in Global Resourcing, Talent and Reward Management

Learning Outcomes:

Definitions: 

• Succession planning; HR development; Organisational learning
• Competitive talent flow; Stakeholders, Drivers of talent management
• Normative and prescriptive notions of talent  management systems
• Defining leadership and talent pipeline requirements.
• Barriers to corporate enhancement of talent; Talent management failure.
• Agency theory
• Self-serving mechanisms and bounded rationality and decision-making theories; retention; Legitimacy
• Home country management vs. host country(s) context and social acceptance
• Commitment and buy-in
• Notions of power, Reputation
• Global leadership skills; Economic climates.

Talent management strategy

• Drivers of alignment
• Corporate/organisational commitment governance  o developing appropriate metrics;
• Responsibility: Measuring compliance with the process
• Justify investment in talent and external credibility to stakeholders;
• Tracking impact on business strategy; and role of  HR.

The relationship between talent management and performance management.  

• Performance management cycles;  
• Goal-setting theory;  
• Expectancy theories;  
• Extrinsic and intrinsic rewards,  
• Building high engagement culture;  
• Behavioural impact.  

External factors:  

• Power balance and culture, Financial remuneration, Environment, recognition,  

Internal factors:

• Motivation; ownership meaningful task team compositions,  
• Core norms
• Learning and development articulate  
• Workforce skills and competencies and capabilities;  
• Link with HRM strategy and reward;  
• Influence on L&D strategy;  
• Applying L&D strategy.

Design of reward system: 

• Design options process/content; basis for a reward; performance payoff; incentive, administration, fairness, clearly incentives linked to target;  ownership of marks to achieve directly; relationship with strategic planning.  
• Impact:  Designing feedback systems;  the consequence of performance and reward  systems;  Benchmark data, e.g. salary, performance; staff  satisfaction, attrition and vacancy rate, competency skill, sales growth or other output measure of success, economic value added
• Barriers to assessment and effectiveness measures: time, lack of training and lack of motivation. 

• Corby, S., Palmer, S. and Lindop, E. (2008). Trends and Tensions: An Overview-in-Rethinking Reward, Rethinking Reward. Basingstoke:  Palgrave Macmillan.  
• Hutchinson, S. (2013). Performance Management. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.  
• Iles, P. and Zhang, C. (2013). International Human Resource Management: A Cross-cultural and Comparative Approach. London: Chartered  Institute of Personnel and Development.  
• John, P. (2009). People Management and Performance. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.  
• Luthans F., Doh, J. P. and Hodgetts, R. M. (2009). International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behaviour. Boston, Mass.: McGraw Hill/Irwin.  
• Marchington, M., Wilkinson, A. and Marchington, L. (2012). Human resource management at work. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.  
• Scullion, H. and Collings, D. G. (2010). Global Talent Management. London: Routledge. 

Entry requirements

To enrol in the Micro Master program, the learner must possess the following:

• Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or achieved a Level 6 Diploma according to the European Qualifications
• For a non-global accredited university degree, The learner should have followed the Accreditation of Prior Experimental Learning for Qualification (APELQ) policy of Université Libérale de Paris (Paris-U). 
• Learners must be over 21 years old.

Université Libérale de Paris reserves the highest decision-making power for admission whether to accept or not accept after a specific review of each candidate’s profile to ensure they can comprehend and gain benefits when participating. For the fake university or diploma mills, SIMI shall not be accepted.

English requirements

Proof of English language proficiency must be provided if a learner is not from a predominantly English-speaking country.

• Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) level B2 or equivalent
• Or A minimum TOEFL score of 101 or IELTS 6.5; Reading and Writing must be at 6.5 or equivalent

Students can convert all credits and the full tuition fee when participating in the Paris-U academic programs if they want to study for an academic degree.

Credits transfer:

Learners can accumulate 20 credits from the Micro Master program when participating in the Master of Arts in Human Resource Management (MAHRM) at Paris-U. Please see the credit transfer policy HERE.

Tuition fee transfer:

When participating in the MAHRM program, students who have graduated from the Micro Master program will receive a discount equivalent with short courses tuition fee for each certified. Please see the tuition fee transfer HERE

[APEL.Q] – Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) for Award of Academic Qualifications (Q) is the award of academic qualifications to individual learners through the evaluation and assessment of prior experiential learning towards fully accredited programmes offered by Paris-U. A degree with [APEL.Q] pathway is granted based on the knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired through formal, informal, or non-formal learning.

As a crucial component of Liberal Education, Paris-U is the first university in the world to implement the APEL.Q approach to acknowledge experience and knowledge fully. Assist students in becoming rapidly recognised and entering the labor market.

Short Courses Certified programs are wholly approved and recognised, according to the same rigorous standards as academic degree programs. Learners might include this qualification in their portfolios when submitting for the APEL.Q examination.

Please note that the APEL.Q process will lead to only the MAHRM degree of Paris-U, not a dual degree. For more information, read more HERE

Université Libérale de Paris (Paris-U) Certified program is not-for-profit, so the tuition fees are fully supported by Paris-U’s partners. Université Libérale de Paris reserves the right not to accept more students if the number exceeds the quotas.

Apply Policy:

• To participate in Paris-U’s Short courses program, students need to meet the entry criteria corresponding to each level. Please see the “Entry” tab for more details.
• Paris-U will only accept applicants if their entry qualifications are from diploma mill universities or schools/universities that are accredited.
• For Level 7 short courses programs, if an entry bachelor is unavailable, students must demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of work experience in the relevant field. Please note that a bachelor’s degree is required for the Master’s program at Paris-U, so you could take the Micro Master program but could not move to the Master’s program at Paris-U.
• English is not a mandatory entry requirement for short course programs, but candidates must ensure that English is used in reading documents, listening to lectures, and doing assignments. Candidates should note that English is mandatory when switching to an academic program at Paris-U.

Apply Process:

1.  Choose the program that suits your requirements. Note that applicants without a university degree will not be able to participate in the program at Level 7, and applicants without a Master’s degree will not be able to participate in the program at Level 8.
2. Email your application to support@paris-u.fr with all the required documents. You could download the application form here.
3. Our admission department will reach out to you and guide you through further processes if the registration documents need to be supplemented.
4. Université Libérale de Paris will issue the Letter of Acceptant (LOA). You will proceed to the next steps according to the instructions and pay the tuition fee.
5. Université Libérale de Paris will issue a student confirmation letter, login account to the e-learning system and related documents.
6. You have become an official Paris-U student and enjoy your study journey.

The Short Courses Certified program is a fully online program. You can study anytime, anywhere. The final exam will be uploaded to the system and marked by the academic panel of Paris-U. Students must submit assignments on time. Otherwise, the student is considered not to continue the program.