Master of Management Studies (M.M.S) Acquiring and Managing Talent Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Course objectives

• 1 To introduce foundational principles, strategies, and practices in talent acquisition and management.
• 2 To equip students with practical skills in recruitment, selection, onboarding, and employee retention.
• 3 To develop analytical capabilities for assessing talent management effectiveness and workforce planning.
• 4 To foster understanding of employer branding and employee value proposition in talent acquisition.
• 5 To cultivate strategic insight into contemporary talent management challenges and best practices.

Course outcomes

• CO1: To recognize the role of talent acquisition and selection.
• CO2: To identify the methods of acquisition and management of talent for a given position.
• CO3: To apply different interview techniques and demonstrate required interviewing skills for a given position.
• CO4: To analyse the requirements of the measures used in employee talent acquisition and selection to evaluate applicants fairly and in an unbiased manner.
• CO5: To create effective ways of acquiring, managing and retaining talent and evaluate the impact of talent management through the HR function.

Unit 1 CO1 · 2 hours

Conceptual and modern approaches of Talent Management and Acquisition

Unit 2 CO1, CO2 · 3 hours

Competency based Job Analysis – • Contents of Job Description & Job Specification, Job Design.

Unit 3 CO2, CO4 & CO5 · 6 hours

Acquiring Talent: • Recruiting Talent Externally, Recruiting Talent Internally, Developing Talent Over Time, Developing a Diverse Talent Pool, • Use of technology for talent acquisition

Unit 4 CO2, CO3, & CO5 · 5 hours

Selection Process – Matching People and Job, Sources of Information about Job Candidates, Use of various contemporary tools for selection, Assessment Center, Interview Techniques.

Unit 5 CO3, CO4 & CO5 · 5 hours

Employee Testing and Selection • Profiling Techniques: Personality, Aptitude, Competency • Documentation for Acquiring Talent, Statutory and legal requirements affecting the talent acquisition policies.

Unit 6 CO4, CO5 · 9 hours

Talent Development Contemporary techniques of training, PCMM model, Analysis and evaluation of Learning and development needs. Talent Retention: Strategies for talent retention. Employee engagement practices for retention. Compensation as a tool for retention: Concept and objective of compensation as a retention tool. Talent Acquisition: Measuring the impact and use of various matrices for Talent Acquisition.

Textbooks

• 1 Effective Acquiring Talent and Selection Practices, Alan Nankervis, Robert Compton, Bill Morrissey.
• 2 Acquiring Talent and Selection (Developing Practice), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• 3 Successful Interviewing and Acquiring Talent, Rob Yeung, Kogan, Page Publishers
• 4 Human Resource Management – A South Asian Perspective by Snell, Bohlander & Vora Fourth Edition 2011
• 5 Gary Dessler & Biju Varkey. Human Resource Management 16th Edition, Pearson Publication.
• 6 Fred Luthans. Organisational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach 12th Edition, McGraw Hill Education

Reference Books

• 1 Aswathappa K.. Human Resource Management-Text and Cases 8th Edition, McGraw Hill Education