- Docente: Guido Fioretti
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SECS-P/10
- Language: English
- Moduli: Massimo Bianchi (Modulo 2) Guido Fioretti (Modulo 1)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (cod. 0906)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
- Course Methodology, Structure and Process, The concept of Management, The organizational chart, The case of S.M.E. Agency organizational chart, HRM as a process: parameters and indicators, Efficacy, efficiency,adequacy.
- Personnel Management Personnel selection, training and
evaluation.
- Teams and teamwork Dynamics of inter-personal relations. Size and structure of human groups. Roles, tasks and activities.
- Negotiation Origin of conflicts and conflict management.
- Leadership Empowerment, ambiguity, styles of leadership.
Readings/Bibliography
PROF. BIANCHI
(1) R. Wayne Mondy, Robert M. Noe, Shane R. Premeaux, Human
Resource Management, seventh Edition, Prentice hall, NY, 1999,
Chapter 1: Human resource Management: an overview, pp. 2- 14. (2)
Armstrong M., Strategic human resource management, second edition,
Kogan Page, London, 2000, Chapter 1: The concept of human resource
management, pp. 5 – 28.
PROF. FIORETTI
Lecture notes available online, ch. 2, 3, 4, 5:
http://www.moodle.unibo.it.
Teaching methods
Lectures and discussions. Group exercises.
Assessment methods
Written exam. The exam is composed by 3 parts of 10 marks each,
totalling 30:
- 5 multiple choice exercises, valued 2 marks each;
- Precise answers to 5 questions, valued 2 marks each, without
exceeding 50-100 words per answer (the maximum length allowed
depends on the particular question);
- An essay to write at home or during the exam, either in English
or Italian, concerning a practical application of what has been
taught and discussed. This essay is strictly individual, it must
not exceed 1 page and it must be delivered at the very examination
day. This essay should neither repeat the concepts expressed in
class, nor refer episodes unrelated to the course. Rather, it
should embed the concepts received during the course in an
empirical context known to the student.
Anything exceeding the above limits will be ignored. The exam can
be written either in English or Italian. Honour is granted on
overall evaluation of outstanding performance.
Teaching tools
Blackboard. Computer with beamer and Internet connection.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Guido Fioretti
See the website of Massimo Bianchi