BIK 2003 Human Resource Management

BIK 2003 Human Resource Management

Course code: 
BIK 2003
Department: 
Leadership and Organizational Behaviour
Credits: 
7.5
Course coordinator: 
Anne Gjertrud Fure
Course name in Norwegian: 
Personalledelse
Product category: 
Executive
Portfolio: 
Executive - Special Course
Semester: 
2022 Spring
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Bachelor
Teaching language: 
Norwegian
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

"Our employees are our greatest asset "is a statement often encountered. What does it mean, and how is it organised to ensure visibility in the organisation? The course will provide an overview of HR management and HR roles and responsibilities in today's workplace. This includes all levels of management. Criteria for the good working environment, personnel, recruitment policies, motivation, knowledge goals, learning, attitudes, and training will be key topics of the course. The course also includes laws, agreements, social conditions and labour law.

Learning outcomes - Knowledge

After completed course student shall:

  • Have acquired a oversit of important principles and tasks of modern personnel management
  • Have been kunsskap on various management tools in personnel management
  • Have knowledge of relevant laws, agreements and social conditions that affect the management of staff.
Learning outcomes - Skills

After the course students shall:

  • Be more aware of their own behavior as personnel manager
  • Be able to use tools that are reviewed in the course of the exercise of personnel management
General Competence
  • See the value in being able to develop itself as a leader
  • See the potential in utilizing the forces and development opportunities for the individual employee and the organization as a whole.
Course content
  • Principles and practice in modern human resource management
  • Development of the human resource function
  • Human resource policy
  • Learning, competence and career development
  • Compensation, salary and rewards
  • Work environment, health and safety
  • Appraisal interviews
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Social benefits
  • Ethics, labour law and human resource management
Teaching and learning activities

The course duration is 45 hours of teaching.

 

In all BI Executive courses and programs, there is a mutual requirement for the student and the course responsible regarding the involvement of the student's experience in the planning and implementation of courses, modules and programmes. This means that the student has the right and duty to get involved with their own knowledge and practice relevance, through the active sharing of their relevant experience and knowledge.
 

Software tools
No specified computer-based tools are required.
Qualifications

Higher Education Entrance Qualification

Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.

Required prerequisite knowledge

Basic knowledge and / or experience within organization and management is recommended.

Assessments
Assessments
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Written submission
Invigilation
Weight: 
100
Grouping: 
Individual
Support materials: 
  • Book: Storeng, N.H. og Beck, T.H. og Due Lund, A. Arbeidsrett. Cappelen Akademisk Forlag.
Duration: 
3 Hour(s)
Comment: 
A 3 hour individual exam.
Exam code: 
BIK 20031
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Resit: 
Examination when next scheduled course
Type of Assessment: 
Ordinary examination
Total weight: 
100
Student workload
ActivityDurationComment
Teaching
45 Hour(s)
Examination
3 Hour(s)
Student's own work with learning resources
152 Hour(s)
Sum workload: 
200

A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.