Strategic HR Management
MIT's Sloan School of Management offers this course on designing and implementing human resource strategy from a general manager's perspective. Topics include reward systems, performance management, high-performance HR systems, training and development, recruitment, retention, equal employment opportunity law, workforce diversity, and union-management relations. The course treats HR decisions as strategic choices tied to competitive advantage rather than administrative routine, asking not just what policies look good on paper but what it actually takes to execute them inside a real organization. Materials are provided through MIT OpenCourseWare and typically include readings, case discussions, and assignments used in the original Sloan classroom. As an OCW offering, the course is free to access, self-paced, and carries no certificate, making it best suited to learners who want the course content itself rather than a credential.