BE416-5-AU-SO:
Contemporary Human Resource Management
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2024/25
Essex Business School
Southend Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 5
Inactive
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 13 December 2024
15
04 October 2018
Requisites for this module
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This module introduces the students to human resource management and is concerned with the way in which organisations manage and elicit the best from their people. The course helps students understand the fundamentals of HRM in terms of recruitment, performance appraisal, reward management and employee relations. It focuses on contemporary issues and concepts such as flexibility of new firms, career development, redundancy process, empowerment, employment ethics, managing diversity and new management techniques. It is also concerned with the growing interest in organisational learning, culture, the technology-people interface and the impact of globalisation in the changing context of work on HRM, the strategic nature of HRM practice, and its impact on organisational performance.
The main aim of the course is to enable students to acquire a clear understanding of the changing nature of work and the role of HRM in different organisational and environmental contexts. Students will explore the diversity of HRM systems and practices in different national contexts and gain a thorough understanding of how the strategic role of HRM is played out in the context of internationalisation processes of firms and globalisation pressures. Critical to the process of contemporary HR management is the ability to organise the technology-human interface in a climate of constant change. Learning how to manage this change process and fostering organisational learning, employee motivation, rewards and pay, and understanding the changing nature of participation and employee relations in the current knowledge economy, so that students are equipped to play leading management roles, will also form part of the study for this module.
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The main aim of the course is to enable students to acquire a clear understanding of the changing nature of work and the role of HRM in different organisational and environmental contexts. Students will explore the diversity of HRM systems and practices in different national contexts and gain a thorough understanding of how the strategic role of HRM is played out in the context of internationalisation processes of firms and globalisation pressures. Critical to the process of contemporary HR management is the ability to organise the technology-human interface in a climate of constant change. Learning how to manage this change process and fostering organisational learning, employee motivation, rewards and pay, and understanding the changing nature of participation and employee relations in the current knowledge economy, so that students are equipped to play leading management roles, will also form part of the study for this module.
The following learning and teaching methods will inform the pedagogic process of the course:
Lectures, which will be developed around the key concepts as mentioned in the indicative course content and will use a range of cases from organisational practice to demonstrate the application of concepts to HRM.
Seminars, which will concentrate particularly on linking theoretical approaches with actual problems that arise in HRM practice.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Exam |
Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 120 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Caleb Kwong, email: ckwong@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Caleb Kwong
Emma Aldridge, Undergraduate Administrator
enich@essex.ac.uk
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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