The course aims at providing the fundamentals and tools of Human Resources Management, by building on the knowledge of the basic elements of organizational theory.
The goal is to gain and develop skills for the management and empowerment of human capital, as a critical success factor in the process of value creation and image building of an organization

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:
• Students will acquire the basic knowledge and theoretical and methodological foundations for the management of human resources in complex organizational contexts, also considering the evolutions, in progress or forthcoming, introduced by the technological innovation.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• Students will be able to apply in real organizational contexts the acquired methodological and theoretical knowledge, also through the development of a group project in which they will be prompted to make decisions while drawing a plan for progressing the management practices of an organization of their choice. They will be acquainted with technological tools dedicated to the various human resource management activities. They will also be introduced to the methods and problems of shortage identification and research and selection of staff.

Making judgements:
• The students will be asked to express their individual judgement in several moments: when evaluating the relations between the case proposed and the topic during lectures, when discussing exercises in some classes, during the presentation of other groups' projects. Students are then expected, at the end of the course, to be able to read a case through a theory, and to evaluate the opportunity of using a tool or a solution in a certain context.

Communications Skills:
• During the course, the students will be involved in several communication activities: discussions within their team to explain and credit their individual point of view on group project, discussions in class on the aspects of each lecture’s topic, presenting in group the lecture’s topic (when assigned), and presenting their groupwork at the course’s end. This will give the students the possibility to acquire and understand key terms and concepts related to human resource management under different perspectives, to experience oral and written communication with their different styles, and to become familiar on how to present a specific topic and a final report clearly and pointing to the main interesting aspects.

Learning skills:
This course will contribute to empower learners in being able to explore a context under several different perspectives and considering different possible solutions.
Beyond the specific subject of this course, this should give them the ability to link together a mass of different hints, evaluate them and exploit the combined value.