HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

The program is focused on the Human Resources Systems and Strategy. A double perspective analyzes the employer's approach and the employee's preferences. Strong emphasis is devoted to the set of systems and methods applied in human resources departments and to the roles of manager to develop the skills and competences of the employees and the organization. Some of the main themes coherent with students' learning path are: Labor Cost, Learning in Complex Organization, Exploitation and Development of Skills, Human Resources Management system and its linkage to the business strategies, and Internationalization and Globalization of the labor markets.

The purpose is to focus on the strategic contributions of the human resources (HR) department to the strategic goals of the organization. We will highlight the challenges and dilemmas of today’s HR functions and departments. The emphasis is on how the design of an organization's HR architectures might support firm's critical strategic capabilities. We will compare and discuss HR strategies in multinational and global companies and trends of labor relations in the future.
This course aims to improve the understanding of managerial implications of "managing people” and to evaluate the relationships between Human Resources Systems and the implementation of the business strategy. External lecturers, examples and workgroups will contribute to a real experience.
Strong attention is devoted to improve students’ capabilities to observe and compare the organizational context from different perspectives: the firms' ones and the individuals' point of view, and how to manage the expectations effectively .

Basic knowledge of Business Administration and Management.

Personnel management policies and strategies to support the implementation of corporate strategies.
Define the best organization based on the strategy.
The development of personnel management areas in specialist functions and the responsibility of management in personnel management.
Some practices in the governance of talents, in remuneration policies, in the design of total reward systems and in performance evaluation.
Career development systems.
Motivational potential analysis models and the reward system.
The labor market and recent dynamics on international markets.
The system for evaluating the effectiveness and creation of value through personnel policies.
The competitive differentials generated by personnel management systems.
The actions of "engagement" of the staff and the construction of a corporate identity.
The management of international careers.

RISORSE UMANE 4/ED, di Giovanni Costa, Martina Gianecchini
© 2019 | Data di Pubblicazione: 1 Settembre 2019
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The main book content will be integrated by more topics coming from external relator and from specific arguments regarding HR & Organization Management explained by the teacher during the lessons.

Written exam + group assignments for the students attending the course (0 to 4 points). For whom that do not partecipate to the workgroups the maximum evaluation is not preclude.

The exam will be structured with open and multichoicl'e questions. Particular attention for the evaluation of the open questions will be based on the skills acquired in term of: ability to connect different themes, capacity to go in depth on different matters, capacity to compare theory and execution.

Lectures, experiments, case discussions and simulations are relevant part of the learning process. Students are requied to visit the MOODLE application for further readings. Attendance is strongly suggested. All the slides are available on the MOODLE Platfom.
Attendance of lectures and the participation to small groups work are strongly suggested. These works concern with cases studies, comparative analysis of different industries and carrying out of short simulations.

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Further readings will available on the course's website. These readings are not mandatory but support the individual learning process.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development