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Course Outline
Summer Semester, 2016
PART A: COURSE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION
Muhammad Farhan
Cell 0302-8265822
Email m.farhan.sm@gmail.com
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2 COURSE DETAILS
2.1. Teaching Times and Locations
An organization achieves its objectives through HR. An effective organization is one that produces, in a cost
effective manner, requisite levels of the following three HR outcomes: Commitment, Coordination and
Competence. This course introduces you to the central processes that make up human resource management
practice in organisations. We consider various options for attracting, retaining and developing employees and
ensuring that employers meet their legal and ethical obligations in relation to workforce management. You will
cover the key HR functions of recruitment and selection, learning and development, workforce planning,
performance and reward management, occupational health and safety, and diversity management. In this course
students have the opportunity to develop their professional skills and knowledge in managing the employment
cycle.
In a nut-shell, the course aims to: 1) facilitate an understanding of what it is that HR Managers do and how they
do it, and, 2) promote an evidence-based approach to examining the effectiveness of the various options for
managing an organisations workforce.
This course emphasises both the acquisition and application of knowledge. At IoBM we believe that learning
occurs most effectively when theory is taught in conjunction with application. This is reflected in teaching
approach to this course, which combines conceptual knowledge about the functions of human resource
management along with activities that illustrate how such functions are performed in practice and best
implemented in organisations. We believe that teaching should take into account individual differences in the
needs and attributes of learners and should be responsive to feedback. We seek on-going feedback from students
in relation to the positive and negative aspects of the teaching approach. It is however to be made clear that the
role of the lecture is that of a facilitator of your learning. The onus of real learning is upon the student. The
classroom is a simulation of the real world and therefore it is encouraged that the students actively take
responsibility for their own learning.
The lectures are designed to convey theoretical and practical knowledge about the functions performed by HR
Managers as well as hands-on activities and discussions of readings to enable transfer of learning to the world of
work. For example, students will have the opportunity to conduct a job analysis, complete personality tests used
in personnel selection, design a performance appraisal system, and engage in training activities that are currently
being used to train managers in organisations. Lectures will also be used to review the evidence base for various
human resource activities in order to promote a best practices approach to human resource management.
Course Outline
Orienting employees
The Training process / Training methods Unit T&D
8 Management development Quiz 4
Evaluating training efforts and effectiveness
Training feedback models
Career Management
The basic career management Unit
10 Roles in career planning and development Quiz 6 Career
Career management and employee commitment Planning
SKILL / WILL Framework
This course of Human Resource Management aims to prepare you as future managers and develop your skills in
order for you to be successful leaders, managers and positive change agents. With the workplace changing at the
current break-neck speed, it is imperative that you are aware of the contemporary issues presently facing the
Human Resource Function. To further develop your professional skills it is also imperative to introduce you to
current research in all areas of Human Resource Management. The term project will aim to do just that. Details
of the Term Project will be announced in Week 6.
5. COURSE RESOURCES
There will be regular contact by the course facilitator through email and Google Docs. The
responsibility is on the student to be prompt in maintaining that contact and avail all the resources
provided.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCE:
Readings and other material for in-class participation will be periodically emailed or handed in
personally. Students are encouraged to explore the following websites and Journals for individual
learning:
- www.shrm.org - www.hbr.org
- www.astd.org - www.cipd.co.uk
- www.workforce.com
- www.hrmasia.com
- www.citehr.com