ADVANCED HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

This course is mandatory for the Masters' Degree Course and, consistently with its aims, it provides the student with the capability to analyze, diagnose and design the human resource management process, also accordingly to an international perspective. More in detail, this course aims at developing the capability to understand and analyze the main advanced problems regarding strategic human resources management, according to two perspectives: the first concerns the processes of human resource management based on competencies and their impact on individual performance, and the second deals with the issues of human resource management in the internationalization processes. In this way, this course aims to encourage the learning of key practices, models and tools based on competencies, used to strategically manage human resources, and then focuses on the implications arising from international assignments and their managerial, cultural and institutional peculiarities.

Knowledge: definition and content of the human resource management processes; International HRM and expatriate management; issues related to international staffing, pre-departure training, performance management, international compensation, intercultural management; processes and tools for competency-based HRM.
Abilities: to analyze, diagnose and design effective, efficient and fair human resource management processes; to diagnose the organizational issues that may impact on international HRM processes.

Nessun prerequisito particolare.

Contents:
-HRM processes
-Competency-based HRM
-Organizational structures and processes for internationalization
-International HRM: recruitment, selection, development, evaluation, compensation, reentry
-Organizational and national cultures.

Mandatory textbooks:
Mathis, Jackson, Valentine, Meglich, Dowling, Festing, Engle, 2020, Advanced Human Resource Management. Custom edition. Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781473778054.
Materials uploaded in Moodle.
Lesson slides.

Students' evaluation will be conducted through a written exam, composed of:
a) Multiple choice questions
b) Sentences to be completed
c) Open questions
The exam lasts one hour.

Lessons, case studies, company testimonial.

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