Courses from Ashridge Business School:
- Advanced Management Programme
- Advanced Organisation Design
- Ashridge Leadership Process
- Coaching for Organisation Consultants
- Finance for Managers
- Financial Drivers
- Focusing on the Customer
- Group Level Strategy
- Impact and Influence: Driving outstanding results
- Implementing Change
- Influencing Strategies and Skills
- Leading Change and Growth
- Making Strategy Happen
- Making Successful Acquisitions
- Management Development Programme
- Performance through People
- Sales Leadership Programme
- Senior Executive Programme: Leading Strategy and Change
- Strategic Decisions
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Strategy and Finance
- Strategy Tools
- The Leadership Experience: Leading on the Edge
- Virtual Action Learning Facilitation

Ashridge Business School
Executive Education
Master Program: Strategic Human Resource Management
Learning purpose
You will :
- Contribute to the formulation of strategy within your organisation.
- Diagnose and recommend appropriate structures, organisational designs and human resource systems to support the implementation of specific business strategies.
- Translate this into an HR strategy.
- Deliver this HR strategy through relevant planning.
- Identify and diagnose potential areas for change.
- Develop a detailed action plan for change and developments in HR policies.
- Implement practices to reinforce strategic direction.
Target audience
You are a senior human resource professional or line manager responsible for strategy implementation through HR management. This popular programme attracts participants from all industries and all regions of the world, SMEs to blue chip, public and private sectors.
Programme
The only real sustainable source of competitive advantage an organisation has is its people.
This is now an accepted assertion. We look at what it actually means. Together, we look at:
- The HR role in formulating a winning strategy.
- How to get beyond mere doing to really shaping and influencing change.
- How to personally rise above the day to day to understand which select initiatives will help your organisation grow and flourish.
- The structures, processes and organisation culture you need and how to get them.
What makes this programme different?
- This is a highly interactive programme with no passive theory sessions. Instead you will debate and challenge corporate strategy and appropriate HR response in the company of fellow practitioners.
- We stretch and challenge you.
- It gives you time to reflect, a fresh insight and clear focus.
- You will gain access to Ashridge’s award winning Virtual Learning Resource Centre.
- A tailored 360° feedback instrument and personal coaching.
- The virtual community facility will allow you to maintain valuable networks established on the programme.
- The inspirational surroundings of Ashridge will stimulate your creativity and your ability to look at things from a different angle!
Entry Requirements
University degree desirable, 5 years work experience, good GMAT score, TOEFL IBT 100+
"Wish I’d come on this programme years ago! Everything makes so much more sense now. Truly inspirational programme and I’ve learned a lot."
(Director of HR)

