COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
BUS 335	B	5	3	0	0	3	5

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Aurora Birbilaj
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Compulsory
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description:	Human Resources Management: The most important innovations of our era are the modern organizations. These organizations can only succeed if they can efficiently and effectively combine their resources. Among the others employees are the key resources of the organizations, because employees besides being input also direct the other inputs towards the achievement of the organizational goals. So the objective of this course is to inform the students about how to attain, retain and maintain human resources in the organizations.
Course Objectives:	Upon completion of this course students will appreciate HRM as a central management function. Furthermore, they will gain a solid understanding of the HRM activities, roles, challenges, concepts, and techniques that will prove valuable in their future careers.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction to Human Resource Managment
2	Strategic HRM; The HR Environment and Legal Aspects
3	Job Analysis and Design
4	Human Resource Planning and Recruiting
5	Employee Testing and Selection
6	Interviewing Candidates
7	Training and Developing Employees
8	Midterm
9	Performance Management and Appraisal
10	Developing Employees and Managing Careers
11	Establishing Strategic Pay Plans
12	Pay for Performance and Financial Incentives
13	Benefits and Services, Employee Relations
14	Review Session

Prerequisite(s):
Textbook:	Dessler G., Human Resource Management, 13th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2013 ISBN-13:978-0-13-266821-7Noe H., Hollebeck J., Gerhart B., Wright P., Foundamentals of Human Resource Management, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2011, ISBN 978-0-07-353046-8
Other References:
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Understand and appreciate the role and strategic importance of HRM and how it relates to the organization, management team, and employees
2	Understand the importance of job analysis and design, and learn how to conduct it
3	Understand the importance of carefully designed recruitment process. Become acquainted with the different selection techniques.
4	Understand training and development techniques
5	Understand the importance of performance management and employee retention, and become acquainted with processes and procedures associated with them.
6	Understand the basics of compensation (pay and benefits) and employee relations
7	Exploring the introduction of tech to improve the function of HRM

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Bachelor in Political Science and International Relations (3 years) (Old) Program
1	Having and using advanced knowledge and comprehension supported by textbooks including actual knowledge in political sciences and international relations literature, materials and the other scientific resources.	1
2	Analyzing data, ideas and concepts of current political issues and international relations, determining complex events and topics, making discussions and developing new suggestions in accordance with researches.	1
3	Having knowledge and thought about actual topics and problems together with their historical, social and cultural aspects.	2
4	Introducing those who are interested in politics and international events with the topics of Political Science and IR and teaching clearly the problems and the types of solutions.	1
5	Improving skills of working together with the main social science disciplines and other disciplines which are related to Political Science and International Relations.	4
6	Improving critical thinking and skills in making research independently.	4
7	Developing solutions about the problems and conflicts which are common in national and international arena.	3
8	Improving skills for leadership and research and analyze capacity of those who is responsible with national and international ones.	4
9	Knowing any foreign language enough to communicate with colleagues and understand actual researches and articles.	1
10	Gaining IT skills to use computer and technology) in order to reach actual knowledge.	1
11	Gaining skills to follow societal, scientific and ethic values during collecting, interpreting, conducting of data related to social and political developments.	3
12	Having consciousness about human rights and environment.	1
13	Gaining the skills to follow actual developments and pursue long-life learning.	5

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Homework	2	5
Midterm Exam(s)	1	35
Final Exam	1	45
Attendance		10
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	2	32
Mid-terms	1	14	14
Assignments	2	8	16
Final examination	1	15	15
Other			0
Total Work Load:			125
Total Work Load/25(h):			5
ECTS Credit of the Course:			5