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MGT501 : Human Resource Management

Course Overview

Course Synopsis

This course focuses on different dimensions including an overview of HRM, its history, its approaches and also the fundamental activities currently existing in HRM. Moreover, this course will also elaborate the concepts of unions, labor laws & amp; labor-management relations, leadership, discipline, stress management, and power politics, within the organizations. Finally this course emphasizes on ensuring the balance between the firm’s goals and the interests of the employees, and guide students in developing a vision on HRM from a general manager’s perspective.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Develop a human resource plan.
  • Design a valid recruitment and selection system
  • Assess training needs, design a training program, and evaluate it
  • Develop and implement a performance evaluation system.
  • Design and implement a compensation system that is equitable, legal, motivating, and cost effective
  • Provide awareness of HRM issues in theoretical and practical context
  • Assess various aspects of Human Resource Management in domestic as well as international perspective


Course Calendar

1 Introduction to HRM
2 Essentials of Management
3 Organization and Components of Organization

4 People and their Behavior
5 Individual VS. Group Behavior
6 Personnel Management to Human Resource Management

7 HRM in a Changing Environment
8 Workplace Diversity
9 Functions and Environment of HRM
Assignment 01

10 Line and Staff Aspects of HRM
11 Legal Context of HR Decisions
12 Human Resource Planning (HRP)

13 Strategic Planning and HRIS
14 Job Analysis
Quiz 01
15 Job analysis Methods, Sources of Data, Problems with job analysis

16 HR Planning and Forecasting, Job Description &specification
17 Sources of Recruitment
18 Selection
GDB 01

19 Selection Tests
20 Selection Process
21 Socialization

22 Training and Development
23 Maximizing Learning
24 Career Management

25 Performance
26 Performance Appraisal
27 Job Evaluation and Pricing

28 Compensation System
29 Benefits
30 Role of Money in Performance of Employees
Quiz 02

31 Motivation
32 Occupation and Health & Safety
33 Stress Management
Quiz 03

34 Communication In Organization
35 Trade Unions
36 Conflict and Negotiation

37 Power & Political Behavior
38 Employee Rights and Discipline
39 Employee Separations

40 Leadership
41 Revision (Lesson 12-21)
42 Revision (Lesson 22-26)

43 Revision (Lesson 27-35)
44 International Dimensions of HRM
45 Conclusion & Review