Human Resources Management and Leadership

Code:

2GEC04

Acronym:

GRHL

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Sales Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
GCOM	36	Official Bologna Syllabus	1	-	7,5	56	202,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Discuss critically the strategic and operational dimensions of HRM
- Understand the nature of the leadership role according to different theoretical models
- Illustrate the concepts under review of case studies

Learning outcomes and competences

- To demonstrate critical understanding, through the use of several theoretical models, regarding the impact of HRM in the behavior and performance of employees and regarding leadership role
- To show HRM analytical skills

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Human Resource Management
1.1. Evidence-based management.
1.2. The nature and evolution of HRM
its paradoxical dimension
1.3. HRM models and the role of the HR manager.
1.4. The paradoxical nature and current trends of HRM.

2. Strategic HR management and organizational performance
2.1. HR strategy management models (Best-practices, Best-Fit, resource-based perspective).
2.2. Attraction and Retention: the main people management processes

3. Leadership and HR development
3.1. Distinction between management and leadership
3.2. Different perspectives on leadership;
3.3. Transactional, transformational and authentic leadership
3.4 Constructive and destructive leadership and the role of followers

 

 

Mandatory literature

Peter Guy Northouse; Leadership. ISBN: 978-1-4833-1753-3
Jorge F. S. Gomes; Manual de gestão de pessoas e do capital humano. ISBN: 978-972-618-813-1
Barbara Kellerman; Bad leadership. ISBN: 1-59139-166-0
Mark W. Johnston; Sales force management. ISBN: 978-0-415-53462-8

Complementary Bibliography

Goffee & G. Jones; Why should anyone be led by you?, Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Jesuíno, J.C.; Processos de liderança , 4ª Edição. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, (2005)
Tom Redman; Contemporary human resource management. ISBN: 978-0-273-71633-4

Comments from the literature

Other articles will be delivered in a timely manner

Teaching methods and learning activities

Combination of the expositive method and the active method. Classes based on exposition through dialogue, critical analysis of texts, discussion of case studies in order to connect the conceptual and theoretical analysis to concrete situations.
Outside of the teaching sessions students should read and prepare for discussion the recommended bibliography and cases that will be available in time.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	45,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Trabalho de campo	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	88,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de campo	30,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,50
Total:	202,50

Eligibility for exams

Participation and attendance at sessions are important components for the eligibility for test. This participation is reflected in the active involvement of students during the sessions, and in the advance preparation and discussion of cases in class.
Cases will be available in advance and should be prepared individually and / or in groups according to the instructions, and should be orally presented and a writtten report should be delivered. 
Distributed assessment requires attendance to at leat 3/4 of lectures. Those who fail to meet this requirement must take the final exam.
The final test is individual.

Calculation formula of final grade

a) DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT:

Individual test (45%) + HRM Team assignment (25%) + Leadership Team assignment (30%) 

- the exam must be taken at época normal. Those who miss that test, or do not hand it in, must take the final exam at época de recurso.
- the minimum mark in the exam and in the assignment is 7 out of 20. A mark below in any of these implies a fail, regardless of the global average mark obtained.

b) FINAL EXAM: 100%.

Classification improvement

By final exam at época de recurso.

Observations

Unauthorized copying and plagiarism are unacceptable and under Assessment Regulation, it will require communication to the Director of MSc Course for disciplinary procedures