Human Resources Management in Global Corporations

Bachelor 2023/2024

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Compulsory course (Business Administration)

Area of studies: Management

Delivered by: Department of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Where: Graduate School of Business

When: 3 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Вучкович Алла Александровна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 4

Contact hours: 40

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course is devoted to Human Resource Management within international companies. It takes into account the rapidly changing environment for international businesses as well as contemporary trends both in international labor markets and in human resource management practice. The course addresses the core topics of HRM in multinationals companies within the employee cycle, such as staffing, recruitment and selection, learning and development, performance appraisal and reward system, corporate culture management.

Learning Objectives

The main purpose of the course is to provide students with the comprehensive and integrated knowledge of Human resource Management in an international setting.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Awareness and understanding of contexts of multinational companies’ operation and HR practices, different approaches to foreign and local labor force from the cultural point of view, which contributes to the implementation of the company business strategy.
Awareness and understanding of how talents are attracted, assessed, developed, rewarded and retained in multinational companies.
Awareness and understanding of how international companies manage their expatiates, why companies use expatriates and what challenges are in international assignment

Course Contents

Topic 1. Globalization and HRM
Topic 4. Staffing, recruitment and selection. Learning and Development in IHRM. Global careers.
Topic 2. Institutional context of IHRM
Topic 5. Performance management and reward system in IHRM
Topic 6. Current issues in global HRM
Topic 3. Cross-cultural dimensions of International HRM

Assessment Elements

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.
Group presentation
Group (5-6 students) mini-project and presentation on a particular aspect of International HRM. The presentation must contain 5-6 slides and be 15 minutes long. Topics are proposed by the lecturer or by the students and confirmed by the lecturer. The students must make a presentation based on a topic, where they could apply the theories that have been studied during the lectures and seminars. All the group members must speak during the presentation. 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.
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

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

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Briscoe, D. R., Tarique, I., & Schuler, R. S. (2012). International Human Resource Management : Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises: Vol. 4th ed. Routledge.
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
Культурные коды экономики : как ценности влияют на конкуренцию, демократию и благосостояние народа, Аузан, А. А., 2023

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Cultures and Organizations: Software of the mind. (2012). Viet Nam National University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.library.wur.nl.wurpubs.454579

Course Syllabus