Human Resources Management in Global Corporations

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент организационного поведения и управления человеческими ресурсами

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1, 3 модуль

Преподаватель

Вучкович Алла Александровна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is devoted to Human Resource Management within international companies. It takes into account the rapidly changing environment for international businesses as well as contemporary trends both in international labor markets and in human resource management practice. The course addresses the core topics of HRM in multinationals companies within the employee cycle, such as staffing, recruitment and selection, learning and development, performance appraisal and reward system, corporate culture management.

Learning Objectives

• The main purpose of the course is to provide students with the comprehensive and integrated knowledge of Human resource Management in an international setting.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• • Awareness and understanding of the global and local contexts of multinational companies’ operation and HR practices, different approaches to driving people agenda and industrial relations.
• • Awareness and understanding of how talents are attracted, assessed, developed, rewarded and retained in multinational companies. • Awareness and understanding of how international companies address contemporary challenges of global and local labour markets and reflect the priorities of modern business in relevant HR practices.
• Awareness and understanding of contexts of multinational companies’ operation and HR practices, different approaches to foreign and local labor force from the cultural point of view, which contributes to the implementation of the company business strategy.
• Awareness and understanding of how talents are attracted, assessed, developed, rewarded and retained in multinational companies.
• Awareness and understanding of how international companies manage their expatiates, why companies use expatriates and what challenges are in international assignment

Course Contents

• Topic 1.1. Globalization and multinational companies. HR in cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
• Topic 1.2. Migration and IHRM
• 1.3. Industrial relations and trade Unions: new forms in MNCs.
• Topic 2.1. Cross-cultural dimensions of International HRM
• Topic 2.2. New trends in staffing, talentmanagement. Corporate culture and pay&reward

Assessment Elements

• Seminar Individual and Group Activities
  Students are expected to complete all required readings, demonstrate attentiveness in class and participate actively in course activities and discussion. Individual or team case studies and valuable questions, comments and/or answers, awarded by the lecturer when they are valid and valuable for the whole group and brought students further in their understanding and case studies solution.
• Group Presentation
  Group mini-project and presentation on a particular aspect of International HRM. The presentation must contain 5-6 slides and be from 5 to 15 minutes long depending on the learning task. Topics are proposed by the lecturer or by the students and confirmed by the lecturer. The students have to make a presentation based on a topic, where they could apply the theories that have been studied during the lectures and seminars.Presentations are performed by the students during each seminar in accordance with the theme of the seminar. Results are announced in two-tree days after the seminar, where presentation was made.
• Exam
  45 minutes final exam on all the topics. Conducted ofline in a written form. Contains 35-40 multiple choice questions and 2 open questions in which the student is supposed to write the answer. Exam results are announced in several days after the exam is taken

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  0.42 * Exam + 0.29 * Group Presentation + 0.29 * Seminar Individual and Group Activities

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Cultures and Organizations, Software of the mind. Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for survival. (2010). McGraw-Hill. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.library.wur.nl.wurpubs.392270
• Erin Meyer. (2014). The Culture Map : Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. PublicAffairs.
• International human resource management, Reiche, B. S., 2019
• Культурные коды экономики : как ценности влияют на конкуренцию, демократию и благосостояние народа, Аузан, А. А., 2023

Authors

• Vuchkovich Alla Aleksandrovna