Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 176805 | Subject title: HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Mandatory | Year: 4 | Period: 2º S | ||
| Department: Gestión de Empresas | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| BAYO MORIONES, JOSÉ ALBERTO (Resp) [Mentoring ] | URTASUN ALONSO, AINHOA [Mentoring ] | ||||
Contents
This compulsory course is part of the Organization and Human Resources basic module together with the courses Business Economics and Organizational Design and Behavior. It is the third and last course in the temporal sequence of the module. The course takes place the second semester of the fourth year for the International Double Bachelor's degree in Economics, Management and Business Administration.
The course deals with the management of people as a basic resource within firms. After the Business Economic course, where an economic introduction to firms is explained, and the Organizational Design and Behavior course, where the grounds for a more in depth knowledge of organizational architecture and individual behavior are established, this Human Resource Management course aims to help the student better understand the strategic character of people as well as the areas or practices directly involved in human resource management.
The course starts with an introduction to the employment relationship to set up the theoretical framework of the course. Then the strategic nature of people is highlighted and the theoretical ideas to understand the contribution of people to value creation in organizations are explained. Next the processes of information gathering prior to any action in human resource management are described. These processes are job analysis and human resource planning. Unit 4 deals with the problems associated to recruitment and selection. Unit 5 examines training and Unit 6 performance evaluation. We finish the course with three units where compensation-related issues are discussed.
The approach to these topics is made from a managerial perspective founded in economics, but also including relevant contributions from psychology and sociology. Therefore, the approach is multidisciplinary.
Learning outcomes
RA01: Identify relevant economic information sources for the company and their content.
RA02: Understand economic institutions as the result and application of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works.
RA03: Derive relevant information for the company from data that cannot be recognized by non-professionals.
RA04: Understand the nature of the company as an organization with different interdependent functional areas interacting with agents with different interests.
RA18: Evaluate, based on relevant information records, the situation and foreseeable evolution of a company.
RA20: Plan, organize, and control global management projects or those of the different functional areas of the company.
RA21: Apply policies and practices aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business management.
RA25: Use personal, social, and methodological knowledge, skills, and abilities to issue advisory reports on specific situations of companies and markets.
Methodology
| Methodology - Activity | In-class hours | Outside-class hours |
| A-1 Theoretical sessions | 44 | |
| A-2 Practical sessions | 14 | |
| A-3 Preparing individual/group assignments | 40 | |
| A-4 Individual/group tutorial sessions | 08 | |
| A-5 Self-study | 42 | |
| A-6 Exam | 02 | |
| Total number of hours | 60 | 90 |
Evaluation
| Learning outcome |
Assessment activity |
Weight (%) | It allows test resit |
Minimum required grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final exam | 45% | Yes. Makeup exam | 4/10 | |
| Midterm exam | 30% | Yes. Makeup exam | No | |
| Activities | 25% | No | No |
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The activities component requires attendance and focuses on applying an analytical approach to managing the employment relationship.
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A minimum grade of 4 out of 10 is required in the final exam¿whether taken during the ordinary evaluation period or the extraordinary (makeup) exam¿in order to pass the course.
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Students who do not pass the course during the regular evaluation may take a makeup (extraordinary) exam, which covers both the midterm and final exam content.
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The makeup exam is not available to students who have already passed the course and may not be used to improve a passing grade.
Agenda
Unit 1 - Human Resource Management (HRM)
- The employment relationship
- HRM practices
- HRM challenges
Unit 2 - Job analysis and design
- Jobs, tasks, and skills
- Job evaluation
- Employee's skill gap
Unit 3 - Recruitment and selection
- Short-run demand for labor
- Asymmetric information and adverse selection
- Signaling and screening
- Probation periods
Unit 4 - HR planning
- Transition matrix and predictions
- Vacancy yield
- Firm's labor turnover and retention
Unit 5 - Training
- Human capital and skill development
- Education and training as investments
- Assessing training
Unit 6 - Employee performance evaluation
- Approaches
- Labor productivity and unit labor cost
- Output elasticity of labor
Unit 7 - Compensation
- Types
- Pay-for-performance
Unit 8 - Career development
- Internal labor markets
- Tournament model
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Cascio, W., & Boudreau, J. (2019). Investing in people, 3rd edition, Pearson.
Ehrenberg, R., Smith, R., Hallock, K.F. (2023). Modern Labor Economics, 14th edition, Routledge.
Gómez-Mejia, L.R., Balkin, D., y Cardy, R. (2016): Managing Human Resources, 8th edition, Pearson.
Kuhn, P. (2018): Personnel Economics, Oxford University Press.
Lazear, E.P., & Gibbs, M. (2015). Personnel Economics in Practice, 3rd edition, Wiley.
Noe, R.A, Hollenbeck, J.R, Gerhart, B. & Wright, P.M. (2022). Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill.