Transform your workforce into an engine for growth by aligning your human capital approach with your overall business strategy
6 weeks,
excluding orientation
6–8 hours per week,
self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
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The ability to develop a human capital strategy that aligns with your overall business plan and creates a sustainable competitive advantage for your organization.
2
An enhanced understanding of the value of multiple perspectives, and the significant role that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plays in your company culture and values.
3
An action plan to manage the challenges of workforce transformation and prepare your organization for the future of work.
4
A broadened perspective through interaction with a global business network of like-minded professionals.*
*Upon successful completion of your program, you’ll also join the exclusive Yale School of Management Executive Education Community group on LinkedIn.
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work through the following modules:
Module 1 Creating a sustainable competitive advantage through people
Discover how human capital strategy should align with business strategy.
Module 2 Talent acquisition
Learn how contemporary labor practices are shaping the structure of jobs and performance.
Module 3 Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Investigate the importance of multiple perspectives in business.
Module 4 Talent and performance management
Learn about the importance of ongoing workforce development.
Module 5 Organizational design, mission, and culture
Investigate how organizations are shaped by shared values, culture, and mission.
Module 6 Workforce transformation and the future of work
Investigate approaches to managing workforce transformation.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.
James Baron
William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Yale School of Management
Professor Baron’s research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies. Prior to his arrival at Yale SOM in 2006, Baron taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business from 1982 to 2006, where he led the MBA core course: Human Resource Management. He was also co-director of the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), a large-scale longitudinal study of the organizational design, human resource management practices, and financial and non-financial performance measures of entrepreneurial firms in Silicon Valley. Papers based on the project appeared in leading disciplinary journals, and an overview of the project in California Management Review won the 2003 Accenture Award for making “the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.” Baron is the co-author of the textbook Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers, and a regular contributor to leading sociology, economics, and organization journals, including the American Sociological Review and Administrative Science Quarterly.
This Yale SOM Executive Education online program is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter, part of edX. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:
Gain invaluable competencies and recognition from an international selection of universities and institutions, online and in your own time.
Enjoy a personalized, people-mediated online learning experience created to make you feel supported at every step.
Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.