Human Resource Management

Module presentation and teaching approach

Course responsibleDr. Adel Golli: Course Responsible

adelgolli@euromed-management.com

Module objectives► Understand the HR activities you will carry► Critically assess the HR function and better

understand how it can improve your business ability to reach their strategic goals.

► Acquaint you with the various HR issues► Understand how HR decisions can affect

your performance and the performance of your organization.

► Exchange with other students and coaches► Work in an autonomous way at your own

pace

► There are 2 modes for this course: Mixed mode: access to Moodle and attending the 5

face to face sessions Distant mode: only distant access and interaction

with tutor► It’s your responsibility to read and

understand the course material published on Moodle

► If you have course related questions, you must send an e-mail to your teacher before face to face sessions

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► For the Mixed mode:

You have to read and understand the course’s material published on moodle

If you have questions about the content of the course :

►You send an e-mail to your tutor and you will get a feed back

►During the following face to face session the teacher may assess your question for the whole group if the question was interesting

During the face to face sessions further development will be done about particular parts of the course and HR activities and exercises will be carried

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Grading:

►The case studies represent 30% of the final grade for this module (3 case studies, 10% each)

►HR project represents 20%

►50% are for the final exam

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Group assignments

►Groups composed of 4/5 students each. No changes will be allowed for students to switch from one group to another.

►For each group there will be a group leader/responsible

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Where to read the selected chapters???

The 3 case studies will be posted on the course’s main page, check the Moodle platform to download the case studies

Deadlines

Group Assignment

s DeadlineAssignment 1 Saturday 22 October

Assignment 2 Saturday 9 November

Assignment 3 Saturday 26 November

HR Project Saturday 17 December

Group assignments ►Group responsible/leader must get in touch with other group members for the work schedule and all related issues (meetings, content of the work, reviewing answers…etc. AND SENDING THE FINAL WORD DOCUMENT to teacher)

►The group responsible is the ONLY student who will be sending the case assessments to the coach.

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Group assignments case studies►We will grade all assignments►Example of a mail subject:

For assignment nb 2, performed by group Nb 23, whose responsible/leader is John WILLIAMS, the

mail subject must be composed as follows:assignment 2 group 23 williams

►Answers sent after deadlines will be graded ZERO and NO EXCEPTIONS will be done.

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The group HR project : ►Students have to discuss within their group in order to choose an innovative topic about an HR issue and design a HR project.

► You can work on a theme such as: compensation, ethical dilemmas, training, performance appraisal…etc. or any other HR related question.

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The group HR project :

►Don’t choose a topic before assessing the first part of the course

►This is not a journalistic project and students have to use referenced research articles to perform their project

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The group HR project :

►Your work must answer a MAIN QUESTION

►The outline of your report will be very important as well as the methodology used to answer your main question

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The group HR project an example

►Subject: recruitment tools within the hotel industry in the UK

►Main question: how can the HR Department in the hotel industry in the UK improve the effectiveness of its recruitment process ?

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HR project OutlineINTRODUCTION

►PART 1 : literature review on recruitment process►PART 2 : Presenting the hotel industry in the UK►PART 3 : How do the firms operating in the UK hotel industry recruit?►PART 4 : Recommendations

CONCLUSION

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Group assignments ►Use the EBSCO Articles database to find referenced articles for your research topic►You must report the references used for your work as footnotes and in the Bibliography section ►Example:

Bolt, J. (1983): “Job Security: Its Time Has Come”, Harvard Business Review Vol. 61, no. 6, p. 115–123

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Group assignments

1. Go to the Virtual Campus2. Open a session3. Go to information library (distant

access)4. Choose the EBSCO database5. Start searching

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The group HR project :

►A final document (15/25 pages, references included) must be sent to teacher before the 17th of December

►The group leader/responsible is in charge of sending the final file of the project to teacher

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Don’t hesitate to ask questions!!!!!

Good luck to allA. GOLLI