Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
SECS-P/07 (BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Course
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND LAW
Curriculum
Amministrazione, Finanza e Controllo
Period
1st semester (28/09/2020 - 22/12/2020)
Lesson hours
44 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of organizational design concepts and issues.
Learning outcomes
The course provides a panorama of the key analytical issues in human resources management, organization and compliance recent theories and controversies, and applies them to cases of current interest. We shall examine why human resource management is a key ingredient of business performance. We shall explore the ways management develops and motivates employees in their organisations.
Course contents
• Strategic Human Resource Management: setting HRM in the wider context of management strategies and stakeholder interests
• HRM and business and organisational performance
• Reward systems, traditional and modern
• Organisational commitment and the ‘psychological contract’
• Motivation and incentives in ‘networked’ organisations
• The impact of societal values on motivation and commitment
Teaching methods
lecture, case studies
Reccomended or required readings
Risorse umane. Persone, relazioni e valore, di Giovanni Costa, Martina Gianecchini , McGraw-Hill, 4 edizione
Assessment methods
written exam
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
Università di Pavia - Offerta formativa