Teaching Plan Information

Presentation

Human resources, or people management, is one of the fundamental areas in today's management. Exponential technological progress and globalizations demands to have talent prepared to address the challenges facing companies. Attracting and retaining it is its great objective and for this, it is necessary to design and implement management practices for people that favor their engagement. In this course, we will work on the main contents related precisely to engagement, organizational culture, how people management practices influence both, and some of those practices that allow students to understand the strategic scope of people management.

Associated skills

By following this course, students will be able to acquire or expand a number of general and subject-specific competences.

General

• Understanding and correctly interpreting academic writings.
• Being able to justify and defend your position using coherent arguments.
• Developing reasoning and critical thinking abilities in order to analyze controversial issues.
• Accepting the diversity of opinions as a fundamental ingredient of academic life and as an essential component of contemporary society. Being able to form your own opinion while respecting the diverging opinions from others.
• Reinforcing your habits of self-discipline, self-control and rigor in completing academic work and in managing your time schedule.
• Having a proactive attitude toward learning about the topics you do not know and toward the learning process and/or professional activity more generally.
• Being able to make creative use of the knowledge and concepts learnt in the course. Being able to adapt those to novel and original situations.
• Being able to demonstrate a level of knowledge that is sufficient for professional action.
• Being able to select and use the appropriate information to formulate adequate solutions to problems.

Specific

• Develop strategies for managing human resources in organizations.

Learning outcomes

When we are studying a subject related to business management in a degree, the objective of learning has to be understanding how that subject intervenes in management and its relevance and its impact on the achievement of the organizations' outcomes.

Therefore learning outcomes are related to a holistic understanding of the strategic role of HR management to help the organization reach its goals in the short, medium or long term.

Students are supposed to understand how the different HR policies will contribute to the final sucess of the organization and how the HR management should meet its needs and, if possible, anticipate them

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 4: Quality Education

SDG 5: Gender equity

SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Prerequisites

Even though there are no formal prerequisites, a general knowledge of HR policies is required to assure the course understanding

Contents

Teaching Methods

Evaluation

The final grade will be the weighted average of the following components:

• Seminars: 40%
• Final exam: 60%

• Seminars (Continuous assessement)

In the seminars guide, you will find the criteria of work.

• Final exam

The final exam will encompass the totality of the content covered in the theory sessions. The exam will consist in some short and medium questions (no multiple choice questions). The initial and recovery exam will keep the same structure.

• Recovering a failing grade

Only students that have participated in Seminars (Continuous assessment)  and those who have participated in final exam will be authorized to take the additional evaluation, as stated in the following article of the Agreement of the Government Council (Article 11.4.2)

To be eligible to take the recovery evaluation, students must meet ALL of the following conditions:

• the student has attended at least 4 seminars out of 6.
• the student has participated in the final exam.

Since, as it is stated in the above mentioned article, only those students who have failed the whole subject may participate in the process of recuperation, there will be no opportunity to participate for improving the grade if initially it is equal to or higher than 5.0.

If the student obtains a grade of 5.0 or higher, the student will pass the course. 

If the student obtains a grade lower than 5.0 or a grade at the final exam or at the Continuous assessment (or at both of them)  are below 4, the student will fail the course. Provided that the student is eligible to take the recovery examination, the grade obtained at the recovery evaluation will replace the one previously obtained. Both final exam and/or Continous assessment grades will be kept for the recovery process if they are 4 or over 4.

Bibliography and information resources

This course is not based on a single textbook but instead uses a careful selection of articles. There are no compulsory readings and students will only be asked to know what has been mentioned in theory sessions.

The slides corresponding to each lecture will be posted on “Aula Global”.

Teaching Plan Information

Presentation

Human resources, or people management, is one of the fundamental areas in today's management. Exponential technological progress and globalizations demands to have talent prepared to address the challenges facing companies. Attracting and retaining it is its great objective and for this, it is necessary to design and implement management practices for people that favor their engagement. In this course, we will work on the main contents related precisely to engagement, organizational culture, how people management practices influence both, and some of those practices that allow students to understand the strategic scope of people management.

Associated skills

By following this course, students will be able to acquire or expand a number of general and subject-specific competences.

General

• Understanding and correctly interpreting academic writings.
• Being able to justify and defend your position using coherent arguments.
• Developing reasoning and critical thinking abilities in order to analyze controversial issues.
• Accepting the diversity of opinions as a fundamental ingredient of academic life and as an essential component of contemporary society. Being able to form your own opinion while respecting the diverging opinions from others.
• Reinforcing your habits of self-discipline, self-control and rigor in completing academic work and in managing your time schedule.
• Having a proactive attitude toward learning about the topics you do not know and toward the learning process and/or professional activity more generally.
• Being able to make creative use of the knowledge and concepts learnt in the course. Being able to adapt those to novel and original situations.
• Being able to demonstrate a level of knowledge that is sufficient for professional action.
• Being able to select and use the appropriate information to formulate adequate solutions to problems.

Specific

• Develop strategies for managing human resources in organizations.

Learning outcomes

When we are studying a subject related to business management in a degree, the objective of learning has to be understanding how that subject intervenes in management and its relevance and its impact on the achievement of the organizations' outcomes.

Therefore learning outcomes are related to a holistic understanding of the strategic role of HR management to help the organization reach its goals in the short, medium or long term.

Students are supposed to understand how the different HR policies will contribute to the final sucess of the organization and how the HR management should meet its needs and, if possible, anticipate them

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 4: Quality Education

SDG 5: Gender equity

SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Prerequisites

Even though there are no formal prerequisites, a general knowledge of HR policies is required to assure the course understanding

Contents

Teaching Methods

Evaluation

The final grade will be the weighted average of the following components:

• Seminars: 40%
• Final exam: 60%

• Seminars (Continuous assessement)

In the seminars guide, you will find the criteria of work.

• Final exam

The final exam will encompass the totality of the content covered in the theory sessions. The exam will consist in some short and medium questions (no multiple choice questions). The initial and recovery exam will keep the same structure.

• Recovering a failing grade

Only students that have participated in Seminars (Continuous assessment)  and those who have participated in final exam will be authorized to take the additional evaluation, as stated in the following article of the Agreement of the Government Council (Article 11.4.2)

To be eligible to take the recovery evaluation, students must meet ALL of the following conditions:

• the student has attended at least 4 seminars out of 6.
• the student has participated in the final exam.

Since, as it is stated in the above mentioned article, only those students who have failed the whole subject may participate in the process of recuperation, there will be no opportunity to participate for improving the grade if initially it is equal to or higher than 5.0.

If the student obtains a grade of 5.0 or higher, the student will pass the course. 

If the student obtains a grade lower than 5.0 or a grade at the final exam or at the Continuous assessment (or at both of them)  are below 4, the student will fail the course. Provided that the student is eligible to take the recovery examination, the grade obtained at the recovery evaluation will replace the one previously obtained. Both final exam and/or Continous assessment grades will be kept for the recovery process if they are 4 or over 4.

Bibliography and information resources

This course is not based on a single textbook but instead uses a careful selection of articles. There are no compulsory readings and students will only be asked to know what has been mentioned in theory sessions.

The slides corresponding to each lecture will be posted on “Aula Global”.