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Course Syllabus

2023/2024

Human Resources Management in Global Corporations

Type: Mago-Lego
Delivered by: Department of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
When: 3 module
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Подовжняя Галина Геннадьевна
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 24

Course Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course is devoted to Human Resource Management within international companies and it takes into account the rapidly changing context for international businesses ac well as contemporary trends and developments both in international labour markets and in human resource management practice. The course addresses the core topics of HRM in multinationals companies such as strategic role of HR, approaches to International HRM, cross-cultural dimensions of International HRM, peculiarities of HRM activities in international context, current agenda of International HRM.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The main purpose of the course is to provide students with the comprehensive and integrated knowledge of International HRM and understanding of its impact on achieving business results. The course is aimed to give them useful frameworks and modern tools and solutions to global and local people challenges.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • • Awareness and understanding of the global and local contexts of multinational companies’ operation and HR practices, different approaches to driving people agenda and industrial relations.
  • • Awareness and understanding of how talents are attracted, assessed, developed, rewarded and retained in multinational companies. • Awareness and understanding of how international companies address contemporary challenges of global and local labour markets and reflect the priorities of modern business in relevant HR practices.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Topic 1. HRM in multinational companies: definition and approaches
  • Topic 2. Challenges in International HRM
  • Topic 3. Cross-cultural dimensions of International HRM
  • Topic 4. Peculiarities of HRM activities in international context: talent acquisition, talent management, performance and reward
  • Topic 5. Industrial relations: an international perspective
  • Topic 6. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Environmental, Social, & Corporate Governance and Well-being Agenda in International HRM
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Seminar Individual and Group Activities
    Students are expected to complete all required readings, demonstrate attentiveness in class and participate actively in course activities and discussion. Individual or team case studies and valuable questions, comments and/or answers, awarded by the lecturer when they are valid and valuable for the whole group and brought students further in their understanding and case studies solution.
  • non-blocking Group Presentation
    Group mini-project and presentation on a particular aspect of International HRM. The presentation must contain 5-6 slides and be from 5 to 15 minutes long depending on the learning task. Topics are proposed by the lecturer or by the students and confirmed by the lecturer. The students have to make a presentation based on a topic, where they could apply the theories that have been studied during the lectures and seminars. Presentations are performed by the students during each seminar in accordance with the theme of the seminar. Results are announced in two-tree days after the seminar, where presentation was made.
  • non-blocking Exam
    45 minutes final exam on all the topics. Conducted offline in a written form. Contains 35-40 multiple choice questions and 2 open questions in which the student is supposed to write the answer. Exam results are announced in several days after the exam is taken.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 3rd module
    0.41 * Exam + 0.29 * Group Presentation + 0.3 * Seminar Individual and Group Activities
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • International Human Resource Management, 5th edition. (2018). Sage Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.tilburguniversity.edu.publications.e8a0c5fa.6722.4383.abb1.51ca685b3229

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Michael Armstrong, & Stephen Taylor. (2020). Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. London: Kogan Page. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2331872