This course aims to provide students opportunities to explore and discuss the contemporary human resources issues and developments in local and global context. In responding to these trends, human resources strategies and practices of real-life business organizations will be explored and evaluated. Through sharing from guest speakers, lectures, case studies and projects, students will understand and explore the latest issues such as talent engagement, organizational re-engineering and restructuring, flexible work arrangement and family-friendly policies, employer branding, HRM and technology, social media, and HR analytics, etc. Concepts and theories learnt from this and other courses of human resources management can be applied to analyze organizational issues in acquiring and retaining human capital.