DRE 6002 Human Resource Management
DRE 6002 Human Resource Management
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) Have obtained an in depth understanding of major perspectives and theories applied to understand and investigate HRM.
2) Have obtained an in depth understanding of the relationship between individual HRM practices, bundles of HRM practices, and HRM systems and performance at the individual and organization/business unit levels of analyses.
3) Have obtained an in depth understanding of the history of the field of HRM and how it has evolved.
4) Be acquainted with relevant research journals, communities, and conferences that are relevant for organizational behavior.
After completion, students should:
1) Have learned how to analyze and discuss theories and empirical findings within the field of HRM. 2) Have learned how to identify and position research problems within the field of HRM.
3) Be better able to teach or otherwise communicate HRM research to a wider audience (i.e. students and practitioners).
After completion, students should:
1) Be better able to write the theoretical part of a planned empirical paper that later can be submitted to a conference or to a journal.
- Overview of the field and strategic HRM
- HRM and organizational performance
- Selceted single HR-practices
- Implementation of HRM practices
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.
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Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
Assessments |
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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: DRE 60022 Grading scale: Pass/fail Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 30 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 50 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 80 |
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.