Course 2024-2025 a.y.

20945 - HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Department of Management and Technology

Course taught in English

Class timetable
Exam timetable
Go to class group/s: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
IM (6 credits - II sem. - OB  |  SECS-P/10)
Course Director:
SILVIA BAGDADLI

Classes: 1 (II sem.) - 2 (II sem.) - 3 (II sem.) - 4 (II sem.) - 5 (II sem.)
Instructors:
Class 1: SILVIA BAGDADLI, Class 2: SILVIA BAGDADLI, Class 3: FRANCESCA PRANDSTRALLER, Class 4: TRACY ANDERSON, Class 5: TRACY ANDERSON


Mission & Content Summary

MISSION

People are the enduring sources of competitive advantage. People are our most important asset. Since many years, managers, professionals and academics pronounce these words. The main objective of this course is to understand the rational of these words and to learn how it is possible, beyond managerial rhetoric, to manage people so that they really become a stable source of the competitive advantage. In the framework of the strategic human resource management, the course offers an overview of the most relevant human resource management policies and practices. Teaching methods reflect an international and professional focus of the course. The course add value to the Master of Science contribuiting to the development of people management skills which each future manager requires.

CONTENT SUMMARY

  • Human resources and competitive advantage
  • Strategic human resource management
  • The role of the HR department in HRM
  • HRM systems
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Performance appraisal
  • Rewards: from base salary to total compensation
  • Competences analysis and development
  • Training, development, and career systems

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...
  • Understanding the links between HRM and competitive advantage
  • Understanding strategic human resource management
  • Understanding the role of an HR strategy
  • Understanding the logic and principles of HRM systems
  • Understanding the design and implications of the different HRM systems
  • Understanding the HR function role

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...
  • Designing an HR strategy
  • Designing human resource management (HRM) systems (e.g. the selection system)
  • Designing specific tools of an HRM system (such as interviews or tests)
  • Learning how to interact with the HR function in the job market
  • Comprehend the main logic of the HRM systems they experiment in a company
  • Analysis and problem-solving of issues related to HRM
  • Presenting and communicating

Teaching methods

  • Lectures
  • Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
  • Practical Exercises
  • Collaborative Works / Assignments

DETAILS

  • Face-to-face lectures: face-to-face lectures where students are continuously stimulated to interact on current topics.
  • Guest speaker's talks  (in class or in distance)
  • Interview simulations with companies' interviewers (in class or in distance)
  • Theories and/or case studies discussions: the case study method is used in many occasions, both in in-class discussions and assignments. We use case studies, mini-case studies, and incidents.

  • Oral presentations of group assignments: all group assignments are presented and discussed in class by students.


Assessment methods

  Continuous assessment Partial exams General exam
  • Written individual exam (traditional/online)
     x
  • Collaborative Works / Assignment (report, exercise, presentation, project work etc.)
 x    
  • Peer evaluation
 x    

ATTENDING STUDENTS

  • General individual written exam: multiple choice questions (20 points) on all the covered chapters of the book (1,2,4,5,6,8,9,11,12) + 1 or 2 mini case studies (11 points) ) on the same book chapters (1,2,4,5,6,8,9,11,12) and all content covered in the course. General exam is comprised of two parts. The first part with MCQ allows students to develop a business/organizational language and to verify learning and understanding of specific knowledge (concepts and methods) taught in class, relating to the HR strategy and the human resource management systems. The second part with 1 or 2 mini case studies that aims at developing problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
  • Write-up of all group exercises and case discussions  must be uploaded in the Bb before the live discussion starts
  • Average peer evaluation 2 or more. Peer evaluation will open the last day of the course and close on Friday at midnight, the same week.  Those students who do not complete the peer evaluation will be excluded from the attending exam.

 

Please note that students cannot retake the class in the second year: will have to take as a non-attending if not taken/passed the exam after the September session.


NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

General written exam on the knowledge relating to the HR strategy and human resource management systems, acquired by studying the two assigned textbooks on the calendar sessions. The exam is made of multiple choice questions (max 31 points) on all the chapters of the two textbooks.


Teaching materials


ATTENDING STUDENTS

  • R.A. NOE, J. HOLLENBECK, B. GERHART, et. al, Human Resource Management, McGraw-Hill, 2022, 13th global edition (Chapters: 1, (page on syllabus), 2, 4 (page on syllabus), 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12).
  • Materials available on the Bboard platform and in course reserve.

NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

  • R.A. NOE, J. HOLLENBECK, B. GERHART, et al., Human Resource Management, McGraw-Hill, 2022, 13th global edition.
  • P. BOXALL, J. PURCELL, Strategy and Human Resource Management, Palgrave, November 2015, 4th edition.
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