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Rome, Italy - Course Descriptions - Human Resource Management

Course Information

Subject: Business (BUS), Communication (COMM)
Number: 255
Professor: Noia, Fabio Emanuele
Language of Instruction: English
Prerequisites: Business Administration

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 42 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits

Availability

The specific availability for this course is not currently known. If you would like to know if this course will be offered during your session, please contact us.

Summary

This course will provide the opportunity to assess the critical role of the Human Resource Manager in supporting the Top Management in formulating its strategies as well as the Line Managers in their implementation efforts through lectures, analysis of practice and cases, research, discussion and simulation.

Full Description

Objectives

This course will provide the opportunity to assess the critical role of the Human Resource Manager in supporting the Top Management in formulating its strategies as well as the Line Managers in their implementation efforts through lectures, analysis of practice and cases, research, discussion and simulation.

This course aims at developing students knowledge and competence around the main criticalities of human resource management in business organizations and the alternative strategies and practices proposed to handle them.

Syllabus

This course will cover the following topics:

  • From division of labor to labor re-integration
  • The empowered knowledge worker in the emerging knowledge society
  • HR strategies: from saving on payrolls and disputes to value creation
  • HRM as a service offered to the Line
  • Attraction: marketing and positioning on the labor markets
  • Selection: suitability assessment - the process, empirical and quasi-scientifically supported methods
  • Retention: the psychological and the paper contract; career expectations and career paths, professional development, assessment methods and processes, rewards.
  • Attrition: crisis related and normal turnover, discussion: "some organizations don't want they workers to stay .... at least they don't show it!"

Recommended Text(s):

Presentations provided by Professor plus a number of readings and materials proposed/produced by students.

Bratton, Gold, HRM, 2003, Macmillan; Armstrong, A handbook of human resource management and practice, 9th ed, Kogan Page; Torrington, Hall,
Robbins, Organizational Behaviour, 8th ed Prentice Hall; several articles from European and other international professional magazines

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Human Resource Management


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