Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Human Resource Management
HR305S
Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Human Resource Management
HR305S
The following topics are covered on this course:
- What is HR / HRM? Developments, theories and perspectives
- Strategic HRM as a tool to promote achievement in line with the company's overall strategy
- Salary, wage negotiations and reward systems as part of HRM strategies
- Human resources management and participation systems in a modern worklife
- Recruitment strategies, personnel selection and management of staff turnover
- Working with organizational climate
- Communication and information activities
- Personnel and management development in practice (team and team development, problem solving seminar)
Applicants must either fulfill one of the following criteria in order to qualify for admission to the course:
- have a Bachelor or Cand.mag and must have passed exams corresponding to a minimum of 80 ECTS within the field of social science at bachelor level, including advanced courses corresponding to at least 20 ECTS. Social science research methods, Ex.phil and Ex.fac are not considered among the 80 ECTS in Social science courses. Applicants needs to have passed a minimum of 20 ECTS in the field of HRM, leadership or organization.
- have a Bachelor degree of 3 years' duration (180 ECTS), equivalent to a Norwegian Bachelor degree, with an average grade of C, and a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.
On successful completion of the course the student should have:
Knowledge and understanding:
- Provide participants with insight into key topics relevant to the work of human resources field.
- Learn about how HRM is an independent field of study through the presentation and discussion of key theories.
- Insight into how HRM is an increasing part of the general management tasks and how HRM is part of the overall business management in organizations
Skills:
- The expertise to identify HRM as an important part of organizations' activities at strategic and operational levels.
- Skill in implementing HRM-measures in running their own organization
General competence:
- Be able to analyze relevant academic, professional and ethical issues related to the field of HRM
No costs except semester registration fee and course literature.
Compulsoryfor Master in Human Resource Management and for Master in Social Science with specialization in HRM.
Session-based teaching.
Annual evaluations which are included in the university's quality assurance system
Pencil, pen, ruler, simple calculator and dictionary.
N/A
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
HR300S - Human Resource Management - 20 credits