Human Resources Management

Code:

EIG0036

Acronym:

GRH

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Engineering and Industrial Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEIG	76	Syllabus since 2006/2007	4	-	3	42	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

1.To provide an understanding of the human and organizational contexts in which you will be working and the skills you will need to be productive and successful as you enter the world of work and throughout your career.

2.To explore how to put the scientific, technical and organizational knowledge learned at FEUP to work in addressing the major challenges facing management and organizations today.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Organizations are changing rapidly. To deal with these changes requires new skills and attitudes on the part of people working there. The purpose is to acquaint the student with some of psychological and sociological phenomena that regularly occur in organizations – the less visible forces that influence employee and managerial behavior. The aim is to increase students’ understanding of these forces – in themselves and in others – so that, as they become more visible, they become more or less manageable and hence subject to analysis and choice. We will look at these issues from individual, group and organizational points of view and organize our treatment of managerial thought and action from several analytic perspectives - namely, the strategic design, political and cultural perspectives. At the same time, the course will seek to develop critical skills in self-analysis, negotiations, teamwork and leadership.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Life and Work 2. Organizations and Society 3. Perspectives of Organizational Analysis (Strategy, Politics, Culture) 4. People in Organizations (Lifecycle of HRM; Recruitment and Selection; Reception and Integration; Development and Lifelong Learning; Leadership and Team management: Conflict and Negotiation, Motivation, Communication; Performance Management; Career Management) 5. The Importance of External Context (Change Management; Legal Framework, Crises, Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility, Population and Technology, Competitiveness; Multiculturality)

 

Mandatory literature

Jorge Freire de Sousa; Textos e apresentações (Slides and notes provided by the teacher)
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego, Rita Campos e Cunha, ...[et al.]; Manual de gestão de pessoas e do capital humano. ISBN: 978-972-618-568-0
Scott Snell, George Bohlander; Principles of human resource management. ISBN: 978-0-324-59330-3
J. W. Newstrom; Comportamento Organizacional O Comportamento Humano no Trabalho , McGraw Hill, 2008. ISBN: 9788577260287

Complementary Bibliography

Miguel Pina e Cunha... [et al.]; Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão. ISBN: 972-98823-8-X
Rodrigo Magalhães; Fundamentos da gestão do conhecimento organizacional. ISBN: 972-618-390-1
coordenador de equipa António Caetano; Mudança Organizacional e Gestão de Recursos Humanos. ISBN: 972-732-603-X
org. Luís Fructuoso Martinez, Aristides Isidoro Ferreira, Miguel Pereira Lopes; Gerir Pessoas. ISBN: 978-972-618-709-7 brochadp
Moneim El-Meligi; Work, management, and the business of living. ISBN: 978-981-279-067-5
Don K. Mak, Angela T. Mak, Anthony B. Mak; Solving everyday problems with the scientific method. ISBN: 978-981-283-509-3
John Malcolm Dowling, Yap Chin-Fang; Modern developments in behavioral economics. ISBN: 978-981-270--143-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course unit will be based on theoretical and practical classes. The theoretical ones will include the presentation and debate of the main themes of the program. Some of these presentations will be given by experts, so that students can have a more direct contact with a practical view of the themes of the course unit. In the practical ones, the course uses interactive exercises, simulations, case studies and projects to examine the most important issues and develop critical skills in negotiations, teamwork and leadership. Students will be introduced to concepts and tools to analyze work and leadership experiences.

This course is designed in a gamification framework in which all activities required to students - including class participation - accumulate scores, in the proportions indicated in the final classification formula.

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Behavioural sciences
Social sciences > Economics > Management studies > Organizational science
Social sciences > Sociology > Societal behaviour

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	23,00
Participação presencial	31,00
Trabalho de campo	23,00
Trabalho escrito	23,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	10,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	16,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de campo	13,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

A regular student meets his frequency in this course unit if he does not exceed the maximum number of absences corresponding to 25% of predicted classes (cf. definition, "General Evaluation Rules", Pedagogical Council FEUP).
The assignments will be presented in the classes.
The marks of assignments delivered in the previous school year may be considered in the evaluation of the following year, provided there has been frequency in the course unit and that this is the express will of the student.

Calculation formula of final grade

a. assignment presentation (23% of the final mark) b. class participation (31% of the final mark) c. written assignment (23% of the final mark) d. fieldwork (23% of the final mark)

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students with a special status (working students, military personnel, and high-level competition athletes) can opt to be assessed as regular students.

Alternatively, instead of the separate component “personal attendance”, they may answer a written final examination.

Assignment components should be submitted in any circumstance.

Classification improvement

Students may also improve their marks in the following academic year, by improving the components they wish to.