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.
This course explores Human Resource Management through the lens of labor economics, following the analytical framework presented in Labor Economics by George J. Borjas (2024, 9th ed.). Rather than focusing on HRM as a purely administrative function, the course investigates how individuals and firms make decisions about work, effort, compensation, training, and career progression under constraints and incentives.
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. Resit exam | 4/10 | |
| Midterm exam | 30% | Yes. Resit exam | No | |
| Face-to-face activities | 25% | No | No |
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A minimum grade of 4 out of 10 is required on the final exam to pass the course.
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Students who do not pass the course during the regular evaluation may take a resit exam, which covers content from both the midterm and the final exam.
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The resit exam is only available to students who have not passed the course; it cannot be used to improve a passing grade.
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A minimum grade of 4 out of 10 is also required on the resit exam to pass the course.
Agenda
Unit 1 - Introduction to HRM
Unit 2 - Job analysis and design
Unit 3 - Hiring
Unit 4 - HR planning
Unit 5 - Education
Unit 6 - On-the-job training
Unit 7 - Career development
Unit 8 - Incentive pay
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Borjas, G.J. (2024). Labor Economics, 9th edition, McGraw Hill.
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.