APPLIES TO ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

GRA 2257 Human Resource Management

Responsible for the course
Bård Kuvaas

Department
Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Term
According to study plan

ECTS Credits
6

Language of instruction
English

Introduction
Management is basically about getting things done through human resources. This course addresses 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)

Learning outcome
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 identity more or less effective HR in organizations.

Prerequisites
GRA 2205 Organizational Behavior

Compulsory reading

Collection of articles:
A list of scientific articles will be made availalable prior to coursestart. The articles are from journals as Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal og Healthcare Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, International Journal of Training and Development and other journals. References to journal articles will be published on It's learning before the course starts

Other:
During the course there may be hand-outs and other material on additional topics relevant for the course and the examination.


Recommended reading

Course outline
Topics covered are:

• Overview of the field and strategic HRM
• Best practice HRM
• Single HR-practices
• HR outcomes
• A hot HRM topic
• HR in practice and teaching and communicating HRM

Examination
Term paper 100% of the final grade. The term paper is written by one, two or three students.

Class attendance is mandatory.

Specific information regarding student evaluation will be provided in class.
This information may be relevant for requirements for term papers or other hand-ins, and/or where class participation can be one of several elements of the overall evaluation.

Examination code(s)
GRA 22571 term paper accounts for 100% of the final grade in the course GRA 2257.

Examination support materials
Examination support materials at written examiniations are explained under examination information in the student portal @bi. Please note use of calculator and dictionary in the section on support materials.

Re-sit examination
It is only possible to retake an examination when the course is next taught.
The assessment in some courses is based on more than one exam code.
Where this is the case, you may retake only the assessed components of one of these exam codes.
Where this is not the case, all of the assessed components of the course must be retaken.
All retaken examinations will incur an additional fee.

Additional information
Honor Code
Academic honesty and trust are important to all of us as individuals, and represent values that are encouraged and promoted by the honor code system. This is a most significant university tradition. Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the ideals of the honor code system, to which the faculty are also deeply committed.

Any violation of the honor code will be dealt with in accordance with BI’s procedures for cheating. These issues are a serious matter to everyone associated with the programs at BI and are at the heart of the honor code and academic integrity. If you have any questions about your responsibilities under the honor code, please ask.