ADVANCED HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

This course is mandatory for the Masters' Degree Course and, consistently with its aims, it provides the student with the capability to analyze, diagnose and design the human resource management process, also accordingly to an international perspective. More in detail, this course aims at developing the capability to understand and analyze the main advanced problems regarding strategic human resources management, according to two perspectives: the first concerns the processes of human resource management based on competencies and their impact on individual performance, and the second deals with the issues of human resource management in the internationalization processes. In this way, this course aims to encourage the learning of key practices, models and tools based on competencies, used to strategically manage human resources, and then focuses on the implications arising from the processes of expatriation and their managerial, cultural and institutional peculiarities.

Knowledge: definition and content of the human resource management processes; International HRM and expatriate management; issues related to international staffing, pre-departure training, performance management, international compensation, intercultural management; processes and tools for competency-based HRM.
Abilities: to analyze, diagnose and design effective, efficient and fair human resource management processes; to diagnose the organizational issues that may impact on international HRM processes.

Nessun prerequisito particolare.

Contents:
-HRM processes
-Competency-based HRM
-Organizational structures and processes for internationalization
-International HRM: recruitment, selection, development, evaluation, compensation, reentry
-Organizational and national cultures.

Mandatory textbooks:
Costa G., Gianecchini M., 2013, Risorse Umane: persone, relazioni e valore. Terza edizione. McGraw-Hill, Milano. Chapters 1 and 2.
Daft R., 2010, Organizzazione Aziendale, Apogeo. Chapter 6
Dowling P., Festing M., Engle S., 2013, International Human Resource Management (sixth edition). Cengage Learning. Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Spencer L. e Spencer M., 1995, Competenza nel lavoro, Franco Angeli, Milano, Chapters 2, 3, 15, 18, and chapter 10 english edition (Spencer & Spencer 1993, Competence at work).

Further readings:
Dickman M., C. Brewster e P. Sparrow, International Human Resource Management. An European perspective, Routledge, 2008.
Harris C., Brewster C., Sparrow P., 2006, International Human Resource Management. CIPD.
Laroche L. e D. Ritherford, Recruting, retaining and promoting culturally different employees, Butterwortj, 2007.
Smilansky J., Developing Executive Talent Best Practices from Global Leaders, Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Mendnhall M.E. e G. Oddou, Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management, Routledge, 2006.
Perkins S.J. e S. Shortland, Strategic International Human Resource Management Choices and Consequences in multinational people management (2nd Edition), Kogan Page, 2006
P. Evans, V. Pucik, J. Barsoux, The global challenge: Frameworks for international human resource management. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Students' evaluation will be conducted through a written exam, composed of:
a) Multiple choice questions
b) Sentences to be completed
c) Open questions
The exam lasts one hour.

Lessons, case studies, company testimonial.

Italian

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development