- Docente: Simone Ferriani
- Credits: 2
- SSD: SECS-P/08
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)
Learning outcomes
Teaching goals pursued during this seminar series include: - Provide students with an overview of work and employment practices in leading international companies. - Illustrate how the roles of firms, employees, and policy have changed and created the labor market we see today. - Provide an understanding of the status of the current labor market in more detail: o What does it look like? o What types of jobs do we have, and what skills are required? o What are emerging trends in how firms organize work, and in the role of labor market institutions such as unions? - Offer students resources and tools they can use to plan their own career paths in the workplaces of the future—those of the next generation.
Course contents
The goal of this seminar series is to equip students with a fair, honest, and up-to-date overview of how today’s companies work and what they look for in job candidates.
- What does each company department do and why?
- What skills and competencies are most coveted in today’s rapidly changing world?
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How is work changing and what do companies really look for in the leaders of tomorrow?
Think about this: medicine students spend hours learning how the human body works. Management students likewise need to be familiar with a company's functions and departments. This seminar offers an opportunity to deep dive into the characteristics of day-to-day company practices across a variety of industries and functions.
The protagonist of each seminar in this series will be a manager from a leading international company with significant expertise in a particular function. Each manager will share her/his experiences and will offer an insider look into the backstage of day-to-day leading managerial practices in today's highly turbulent business environment. The talk will offer students an opportunity to better appreciate such crucial topics as job market expectations, key competencies required to succeed in today's business landscape, as well as talent search, selection and acquisition processes.
Readings/Bibliography
Recommended readings, if any, will be indicated before each seminar
Teaching methods
Interactive sessions with invited managers from leading international companies
Case studies
Guest talks
Assessment methods
Students will be requested to hand in a reflection paper by the end of the seminar series. The paper is intended to stimulate critical thinking around the topics covered during the seminars.
Teaching tools
The seminar will be delivered in hybrid mode to allow in class as well as remote students to attend and participate productively to each session.
Video material and readings will be used on an ad-hoc basis.
Office hours
See the website of Simone Ferriani