Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Human Resource Management A

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	115-0587/03
Abbreviation	HRMA
Course title	Human Resource Management A
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Management
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Petra Horváthová, Ph.D., MBA

Subject syllabus

1. Clarify the process for making personnel strategy and policy.
2. Describe the steps of the process of recruitment, selection and adaptation of employees.
3. Characterize the basic principles of performance management of employees.
4. Explain the essence of the process of training and development of employees.
5. Characterize the possibility of employee motivation.
6. Clarify the nature, significance and various tools of compensation of employees.
7. Describe the importance and benefits of teams and teamwork.
8. Characterize leadership and its use in the organization.
9. Describe various theories of leadership and their usage.
10.Explain the basics of ethics and its application in the field of human resources management.
11.Explain the significance and the creation of organizational culture.
12.Define complexity of management across cultures.
13.Characterize diversity and its importance.

The aim of the subject is to professionally and practically equip students with knowledge in the field of human resource management to increase employee engagement in the organization in a competitively demanding environment. In this subject students are acquainted with basic concepts related to the area of the historical development of human resource management and with the main activities of human resource management such as planning, recruitment, selection, training and development and compensation of employees. The main emphasis is placed on the issue of performance management, employee motivation and on the ethics of human resource management.

Literature

ARMSTRONG, Michael. A Handbook of Management and Leadership. 2nd Edition. London: Kogan Page, 2009. .
ARMSTRONG, Michael. A Handbook of Reward Management Practice. 3rd Edition. London: Kogan Page, 2010. .
BERGER, Lance A. and Dorothy R., BERGER. The Compensation Handbook. 5th Edition. McGrawHill: 2008. ISBN 978-0-07-149675-9.
HERSEY, Paul; BLANCHARD, Ken; JOHNSON, D. Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2008. .

Advised literature

ARMSTRONG, Michael. Armstrong´s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. 13th ed. Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2014. .
ASWATHAPPA, K. Human Resource Management. Text and Cases. 9th ed. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0-07-066020-5.
BRATTON, John and Jeff Gold. Human Resoure Management: Theory & Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN 978-0-230-58056-5.
MATHIS, Robert. L. and John J. JACKSON. Human Resource Management. 13th ed. Mason: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2011. .
MULLINS, Laurie J. and Gill CHRISTY. Management & Organisational Behaviour. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Education, 2013. ISBN 978-0-273-79264-2.
ROBBINS, Stephen P. and Mary COULTER. Management. 11th ed. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2012. ISBN 978-0-13-216384-2.
SCHERMERHORN, John R. Management. 10th ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley, 2010. ISBN 978-0470-29437-6.

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