MGMT207-23S1 (C) Semester One 2023

Principles of Human Resource Management

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2023
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 May 2023

Description

This course covers the principles of human resource management (HRM) - its major functional areas and the major theories that are the basis for modern HRM practices.

This course examines the ways in which organisations can effectively manage their human resources. The course focuses specifically on the principles of human resource management (HRM).

MGMT207 provides students with an understanding of the theories that are the basis for modern HRM practices, as well as an overview of the major functional areas of HRM. These areas include job analysis, recruitment, selection, performance management and appraisal, training and development, rewards and remuneration, and strategic human resource management.  

This provides a basis that can be built on in MGMT308, which focuses on the application of human resource management strategies practices in real settings.  

Course Topics include:
• An introduction to HRM and the development of the field
• Job analysis and design
• Recruiting human resources
• Employee selection part 1 – issues of validity, reliability, utility and fairness
• Employee selection part 2 – selection methods and processes
• Performance management part 1 – performance planning
• Performance management part 2 – performance measurement
• Human resource development
• Remuneration and Reward
• Human resource planning and strategic HRM
• Workplace health and safety

Workload
The estimated workload breakdown for MGMT207S1 is:

Lectures + Tutorials 12 x 2 hours + 8 x 2 hours (total 40 hours)
Weekly quizzes 20 hours preparation
Final Exam TBC
Assignment 30 hours
Class Test + Exam Preparation Final Exam preparation 50 hours
Total 142.5 hours

Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate an understanding of human resource management and discuss the evolution of this field of management to its present integrated contemporary form (assessed in weekly quizzes and final examination);
  • Demonstrate an appreciation of the New Zealand and international context of human resource management (assessed in weekly quizzes and final examination);
  • Define the importance of workforce planning within the context of strategic human resource management and in relation to job analysis (assessed in weekly quizzes and final examination);
  • Understand and apply the major functional areas of human resource management, including job analysis, recruitment, selection and performance management. Application of this understanding will be assessed by means of a major individual assignment (assessed in weekly quizzes, assignment and final examination);
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how human resource development strategies can be applied at both the individual and organisational level (assessed in weekly quizzes and final examination);
  • Discuss the attraction, retention and motivation of employees through appropriate reward and remuneration strategies (assessed in weekly quizzes and final examination);
  • Demonstrate an appreciation for the contribution that the HR function can make in creating healthy and safe workplaces (assessed in weekly quizzes and final examination);
  • Discuss strategic human resource management and the fit between human resource strategy and organisational strategy (assessed in weekly quizzes).

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

(1) MGMT100; and (2) A further 45 points

Course Coordinator

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment Part 1 - Module 1 & 2 23 Mar 2023 18% Assignment Part 1 - Module 1 & 2
Assignment Part 2 - Module 3 & 4 04 May 2023 22% Assignment Part 2 - Module 3 & 4
Quizzes 20% Quizzes on Weeks 2-11 (10 x 3%)
Final Examination 40% Final Examination

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Stone, Raymond J. , Cox, Anne, Gavin, Mihajla; Human resource management ; 10th edition; Wiley, 2021.

(Please note that the textbook is available in both print AND digital format through Wiley Direct. You can purchase a copy of the Human Resource Management, 10th Edition at https://www.wileydirect.com.au/buy/human-resource-management-10th-edition/

The printed textbook can be purchased via campus bookstores or most online retailers (Zookal, Booktopia, Amazon etc.)

All students are encouraged to purchase the textbook. For those students unable to purchase a copy, nine electronic and four hard copies will be available of the 10th Edition and 12 user licences for the 9th Edition of this textbook will be available through the library. Details on how to go about accessing these copies will be posted on the MGMT207 LEARN page under “FAQs”.

Additional readings will also be made available via LEARN.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $868.00

International fee $4,075.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

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