Project Human Resource Management

 

Course Description

This course describes the evolution of the Human Resource Management through Personnel Administration and Personnel Management to its present form as a separate function of management.

This course thus covers the optimum organization and employment of human resources to accomplish strategic organizational objectives; personnel functions in recruitment, selection, training, promotion and succession planning; relevant behavioral research; legal environment; comparison and contrast of the public and private sectors.

 

Course Outcome

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Distinguish between HRM and organisational performance.
  
• Evaluate alternative perspectives on HR practices;
  
• Analyse the relationship between HR practices and their outcomes for the individual and the organisation;
  
• Evaluate the effectiveness of different HR practices;
  
• Analyse the limitations of the HR theories.

 

Course Content

• Historical Overview of Human Resource Management,
  
• Human Resource Challenges,
  
• Recruitment and selection,
  
• Human Resource planning,
  
• Job Analysis,
  
• HR training/Career Development,
  
• Appraisal and Performance Management,
  
• Conflict and Resolution, Health and Safety,
  
• Employee Rights and Discipline.
  

 

References:

 

• Armstrong, M. (2011), Armstrong Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice (11_th ed.).  United Kingdom: Kogan Page Limited