OVERVIEW

The course aims to develop the following  questions: What does it mean human resource management? Which are the most relevant changes in work and working conditions? How is it possible to manage this change? Which processes and tools characterize hrm? What about organizational behaviours and how does it enter human resource management? Which are the central topics for a good people management? 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at introducing to the principal questions about human resource management, with attention to processes, tools and responsibilities, and to the main topics in the field of the organizational behaviour.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to help students in understanding the topics related to the human resource management and their relevance in business. Students are required to know teh disciplinary basics and to depeen a personal capability to use knowledge. They are also invited to develop their skills in comunicating and interacting to reach proposed goals.

PREREQUISITES

Students are required to know basics in business management and organizational fundamental concepts, as introduced in any textbook

TEACHING METHODS

The languare of the course is the Italian.

Personnel study with support of the instructor for forein students .

Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Prof. Serena Scotto (scotto@economia.unige.it), the Department’s disability liaison.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Two main topics are developed: the basic of human resource management and the fundamentals of organizational behaviour; the specific content of both  depends on the text book students choose, among those proposed by teachers

The course is held in italian, so english spoken students can prepare their exam using textbooks availiable in internationa literature and discussing their contents with the teachers

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The students can choose among these textbooks, after having discussed with the teacher his/her specific interests.

Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, David E. Caughlin, Donald M. Truxillo, Fundamentals of Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics, 2020 1st Edition, Sage Edge

Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart Patrick Wright  Fundamentals of Human Resource Management Paperback 2019, McGraw Hill

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

TERESINA TORRE (President)

LAURA STRAZZERI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

The course will take place in the first semester according the offical calendar 

Class schedule

HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Foreign students may write their exam in English; it is is written; students are requested to answer to to 3 open questions and to 4  questions proposing simple definitions (55 minutes)

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The evalutation considers both the learning level on  knowledge of the specific topics of the course and the capability of expressing concepts and reasoning

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION