• Turn your company's business strategy into HR practices
• Create a customer-focused culture
• Learn to articulate the value of HR investments for your business
• Apply state-of-the-art techniques to human resource management

The Human Resource Executive Program prepares human resource managers to become business players in creating and implementing successful business-focused HR strategies. Participants learn human resource techniques and skills that contribute to a firm's competitive advantage. They also identify how professionals assume leadership roles within their organizations, and learn state-of-the-art techniques for human resource management.

Who Should Attend Human Resource Executive Program-Hong Kong

Upper/middle human resource managers responsible for establishing policy at corporate or divisional levels of major corporations or the policy-making head of human resource functions in smaller companies. Participants should be familiar with human resource areas and be ready to adopt new perspectives. The program is also geared toward line executives who need to develop and refine their human resource management skills.

Please note: Admission to this program is by application only.

The value of this program can be reflected in this comment by a recent participant:

"This challenging program provided me with a grounded framework for catapulting HR as a strategic advantage."

As a participant in the Human Resource Executive Program, you will:

• Learn to view your role as a business player with your organization
• Learn to develop and apply powerful human resource strategies and practices within your company
• Be able to align your human resources practices to support your company's short-term business goals and long-term business strategies

As a special registration bonus, you will receive a copy of one of the faculty's publications on the subject of HR.

Teams will participate in projects to apply classroom concepts to specific situations likely to be faced by human resource management professionals. These projects will be developed during several late afternoon sessions. Teams will present their analyses and recommendations by the end of the program.

The Human Resource Executive Program is organized around the following major topic areas:

• Human resources as a primary source of competitive advantage
• The emergence of human resources as a business player
• The role of human resources in managing through economic turbulence
• Specific tools for developing a high value-added human resource strategy
• Creating the customer-focused human organization
• Building and maintaining strategic alliances through human resources
• Best human resource practices in Asia
• Managing strategic organizational change
• Human resource in the leadership role
• Developing a more capable human resource department
• Current thinking and future directions of the human resource professional

A Typical Week

Day 1

• Human Resources as the Competitive Advantage
• Introduction to Application Projects

Day 2

• Linking HR with Business Strategy
• Workforce Strategy
• Application Projects

Day 3

• HR Strategy
• HR Strategy Execution: Creating & Managing Change
• Application Projects

Day 4

• Global HR
• HR Leadership
• Application Projects

Day 5

• Project Presentations
• HR Roles and Responsibilities

The program fee includes tuition, books, instructional materials, and coffee breaks. Fee is payable in advance in US dollars and is subject to change. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy

Note: Admission to this program is by application only. There are four ways to apply:
1) click "Register Now" on this page and complete the application online;
2) download the application and mail it back to us or fax it to +1.734.764.4267;
3) electronically request a paper application be sent by mail; or
4) call +1.734.763.1000, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EST Monday through Friday and request a paper application be mailed to you.

Asia Pacific Regional Office
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38 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: 852.2509.9088
Fax: 852.2509.9228
Email: Executive Education, Hong Kong