Human Resource Management

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to distinguish alternative approaches to specific issues of practice in the areas identified, describe the factors to be taken into account in choosing between alternatives, and evaluate the applicability of these approaches in particular instances.
• how to identify the key issues to be considered in the implementation of human resource strategies in two of the following areas: recruitment and selection; incentives and reward systems; performance appraisal; training and employee development; promotion and career concerns; employee participation;
• how to define the distinctive features of strategic HRM and compare it with traditional approaches;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply skills such as learning, communication and self-management.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• understand various issues involved in organisational development.
• evaluate various forms of incentive or performance pay, i.e. piece-rates, commissions, bonuses, stock options etc.;
• understand employment and training as a mutual relationship – based on the view that human resources are a kind of capital;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically assess various strategies available to HR personnel in a variety of workplace settings.

• The historical development of personnel management
• The concept of strategic human resources
• Human resource management and corporate strategy
• Recruitment strategies and equal opportunities
• Job design and organisational architecture
• Compensation systems
• Performance appraisal: objectives and methods
• Training and career development
• Employee participation
• Flexibility, downsizing and out sourcing Europe and the consumer.
• Central and Eastern Europe
• Europe and emerging economies

The module consists of 24 lectures. In addition, you are expected to attend twelve classes.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Problem Classes

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: You will be asked to solve problems related to a subject topic such as incentives, training etc, and receive feedback verbally as individuals and groups.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.