This course provides students with the materials and learning environment to understand several areas of academic research as it pertains to the field of human resource management (HRM), and its alignment to business strategy and organization performance.  Hence, this seminar covers research areas including: Strategic management, strategic human resource management, organization and employee performance management, strategic human resource planning, people development and training, training need analysis, organization design and behavior, and using research methods from strategic and performance management, HRM, behavioral research literatures. The seminar will help students to exercise their knowledge in strategic, performance, and human resource management by building a mini-research project plan.