Insegnamento a.a. 2025-2026

20945 - HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Department of Management and Technology


Student consultation hours
Class timetable
Exam timetable

Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
IM (6 credits - II sem. - OB  |  SECS-P/10)
Course Director:
SILVIA BAGDADLI

Classes: 1 (II sem.) - 2 (II sem.) - 3 (II sem.) - 4 (II sem.) - 5 (II sem.)
Instructors:
Class 1: SILVIA BAGDADLI, Class 2: SILVIA BAGDADLI, Class 3: FRANCESCA PRANDSTRALLER, Class 4: TRACY ANDERSON, Class 5: TRACY ANDERSON


Mission & Content Summary

MISSION

People are the enduring sources of competitive advantage. People are our most important asset. Since many years, managers, professionals and academics pronounce these words. The main objective of this course is to understand the rational of these words and to learn how it is possible, beyond managerial rhetoric, to manage people so that they really become a stable source of the competitive advantage. In the framework of the strategic human resource management, the course offers an overview of the most relevant human resource management policies and practices. Teaching methods reflect an international and professional focus of the course. The course add value to the Master of Science contribuiting to the development of people management skills which each future manager requires.

CONTENT SUMMARY

  • Human resources and competitive advantage
  • Strategic human resource management
  • The role of the HR department in HRM
  • HRM systems
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Performance appraisal
  • Rewards: from base salary to total compensation
  • Competences analysis and development
  • Training, development, and career systems

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...
  • Describe the links between HRM and competitive advantage
  • Define strategic human resource management
  • Explain the role of an HR strategy
  • Summarize the logic and principles of HRM systems
  • Explain the design and implications of the different HRM systems
  • Explain the role of AI in HRM
  • Recognize and explain the HR function role

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...
  • Designing an HR strategy
  • Designing human resource management (HRM) systems (e.g. the selection system)
  • Designing specific tools of an HRM system (such as interviews or tests)
  • Learning how to interact with the HR function in the job market
  • Comprehend the main logic of the HRM systems they experiment in a company
  • Analysis and problem-solving of issues related to HRM
  • Understand the use of AI in HRM
  • Presenting and communicating

Teaching methods

  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises
  • Collaborative Works / Assignments

DETAILS

  • Face-to-face lectures: face-to-face lectures where students are continuously stimulated to interact on current topics.
  • Case studies discussion both in-class discussions and group assignments. We use case studies, mini-case studies, and incidents.
  • Exercises, quantitative and qualitative, both in class discussion and group assignments.

  • Oral presentations of group assignments: all group assignments are presented and discussed in class by students.


Assessment methods

  Continuous assessment Partial exams General exam
  • Written individual exam (traditional/online)
     x
  • Collaborative Works / Assignment (report, exercise, presentation, project work etc.)
 x    
  • Peer evaluation
 x    

ATTENDING STUDENTS

  • General individual written exam: 4 mini case studies (20 points) on everything covered in class, including cases and exercise.

  • In class group works on case studies or exercises (11 points). Please refer to the detailed syllabus for the allocated points to each case or exercise. Write-up of all group exercises and case discussions must be uploaded in the Bb before the live discussion starts.

  •  Average peer evaluation 2 or more. Peer evaluation will open the last day of the course and close on Friday at midnight, the same week. Those students who do not complete the peer evaluation will be excluded from the attending exam.

  • ATTENDANCE: To be considered attending student you will need to attend 18 out of the 22. You can miss in other words 4 sessions. Of these 4 sessions, a maximum of 2 can be sessions with graded cases or exercises.

     

 

Please note that students cannot retake the class in the second year: Will have to take as a non-attending if not taken/passed the exam after the September session.


NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

General written exam on the knowledge relating to the HR strategy and human resource management systems, acquired by studying the assigned textbook. The exam is made of multiple choice questions (max 31 points) on all the chapters of the textbook (excluding chapters 3,13 and 14).

 

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS OF PREVIOUS YEARS HAVE TO REFER TO THEIR ACADEMIC YEAR SYLLABUS.


Teaching materials


ATTENDING STUDENTS

  • Materials available on the Bboard platform and in course reserve.

  • R.A. NOE, J. HOLLENBECK, B. GERHART, et. al, Human Resource Management, McGraw-Hill, 2025, (Chapters: 1, 2, 4 (page on syllabus), 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12) (supporting material) .

     


NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

  • R.A. NOE, J. HOLLENBECK, B. GERHART, et al., Human Resource Management, McGraw-Hill, 2025. Excluding Chapters 3,13 and 14.

 

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS OF PREVIOUS ACADEMIC YEARS HAVE TO REFER TO THEIR ACADEMIC YEAR SYLLABUS

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