DRE 6002 Human Resource Management
DRE 6002 Human Resource Management
THis is the course description for spring 2017. Please note that this course will be revised before it is offered again.
Management is basically about getting things done through human resources. This course is intended to address how organizations can and actually do manage human resources. The course will expose the participants to the intersection between Human Resource Management (HRM) and strategy, other main functions of the organization, and micro research on employees behavior, motivation, attitudes, and performance (from fields such as organizational behavior and organizational and industrial psychology)
After completion, students should:
1) Be acquainted with major perspectives and theories used to understand HRM and ways to study it.
2) Be able to identify and present research frontiers within HRM.
3) Be able to identify and position research opportunities within HRM.
4) Be acquainted with relevant research journals, communities, and conferences.
5) Be acquainted with how to teach or otherwise communicate HRM research to a wider audience (i.e. students and practitioners).
- Overview of the field and strategic HRM
- HRM and organizational performance
- Best practice HRM
- Single HR-practices
- HR outcomes
- International Human Resource Management
- HR in practice and teaching and communicating HRM
The course will be organized over 4 whole day sessions (7,5 hours each). Each session will cover main topics and will consist of three basic parts: 1) student presentations; 2) lectures; and 3) class discussions and group work.
Preparation for the first session: Pick an article (that is not included in reading list) or a book that you find particularly interesting or important and that has relevance for the field of HRM. Prepare a brief presentation of the article (or book) and describe why it is relevant for research or practice within HRM (approx. 15 minutes).
Enrollment in a PhD programme is a general requirement for participation in PhD courses at BI Norwegian Business School.
External candidates are kindly asked to attach confirmation of enrollment in a PhD programme when signing up for a course. Other candidates may be allowed to sit in on courses by approval of the course leader. Sitting in on a course does not permit registration for the course, handing in exams or gaining credits for the course. Course certificates or confirmation letters will not be issued for sitting in on courses.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 100 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Individual paper that should contain a review of a particular topic or a proposal for an empirical study including hypotheses or propositions, consisting of 15 pages, plus references/appendices. The paper must be submitted according to the rules outlined in the PhD handbook. The paper should be original work, and be written specifically for this course. Exam code: DRE60022 Grading scale: Pass/fail Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.