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    October 2014 meeting--Getting Business Smart by William MacKenzie

    Date: October 8, 2014, 11:15am – 1:00pm
    Organizer:
    TVC-SHRM
    Location:
    Decatur Country Club
    Price:
    $15.00 lunch charge (Free for first time attendees/potential members)
    Event Type:
    Meeting
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    Ivey MacKenzie is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Competitive Strategy, Human Resources and Labor Relations Management, Employee Staffing & Development, and Strategic Human Resource Management in a Technological Environment.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business.  His research and consulting work focuses on how organizations identify and develop human capital resources to gain a competitive advantage.  His work in this area has been published in outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Human Performance, Journal of Labor Research, and Journal of Small Business Strategy.  He is active in a number of professional organizations including the Academy of Management, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, and the Society for Human Resource Management. 

    "Getting Business Smart"

     A firm’s ability to achieve a competitive advantage is dependent on the resources it acquires and deploys in order to pursue its strategy.  Human resources are simultaneously one of the most important and most challenging resources to manage within most organizations.  The purpose of this session is to help human resource professionals understand the importance of strategy and how to adopt a more strategic approach to human resources.  We will discuss topics including competitive advantage, ways in which HR can become more strategic, common HR misconceptions and making the case to management for human resources to become a strategic business partner.

    This program has been approved for 1.0 hour of business (strategic) HRCI credit!