HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Course code

MNG105

Course title

Human Resource Management

Type of course

Compulsory, elective

Year of study

Semester

Autumn

ECTS

6;
24 hours of theory, 24 hours of practice, 112 hours of
self-study, 2 hours of consultations

Coordinating lecturer

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Raimonda Alonderiene, e-mail:

raialo@ism.lt

Course prerequisites

Principles of Economics, Business and Management

Language of instruction

English

nd

Course description
Students are expected to complete the course with the ability to discuss major issues in human resource management
(HRM) and to understand the relationships among HRM, productivity, profitability, corporate survivability, and job
security. Learning will be based on lectures, readings, case analysis, student reports, guest speakers and team projects.
The material to be presented is based on the evolution of HRM in western countries as well as on the HRM actualities in
Lithuania.
Aims and objectives/ learning achievements
This course is designed to introduce students to the important work of overseeing the staffing, training, and retention of
any companys most important asset competent, effective employees. Increasingly, technology is the same worldwide,
so the critical difference among competitive organizations is having the right people in the right roles, and that is a major
responsibility of the HRM function.
Learning outcomes
Course learning outcomes (CLO)
CLO 1. To be able to understand human resource
management concept and its place and significance in the
organization. To be able to evaluate human resource
management in strategic context.
CLO 2. To be able to analyse and apply human resource
management activities in retaining the most valuable
companys asset - employees: job analysis, planning,
recruiting, selecting, apprising, training, developing,
compensating etc.
CLO 3. To be able to identify particular stakeholders
involved in human resource management.
CLO 4. To be able to compare particular methods used in
implementing specific HRM activities and choose the most
appropriate in defined situation.
CLO 5. To be able to apply theoretical human resource
management notions in practice.
CLO 6. To be able to recognise and analyse peculiarities of
HRM in Lithuania and abroad.
CLO 7. To be able to work in team; to present topics orally
as well as in proper written form; to be able to make
decisions.

Study methods
Lecture,
case
analysis,
group work, article analysis,
self-study

Assessment methods
Interim exam, exam,
quiz, group homework
evaluation

Lecture,
case
analysis,
group work, article analysis,
self-study

Interim exam, exam,

quiz, group homework
evaluation

Lecture, case analysis, selfstudy

Lecture,
case
analysis,
group work, self-study

Interim exam, exam, quiz

Case analysis, group work,

self-study
Lecture,
case
analysis,
group work, article analysis,
self-study
Case analysis, group work,
self-study

Interim exam, exam,

quiz, group homework
evaluation
Group homework
evaluation
Interim exam, exam,
quiz, group homework
evaluation
Group homework
evaluation

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, team work, students reports and presentations, individual reading, article analysis, case analysis, role games,
self-study, etc.

Quality assurance
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Variety of teaching and learning methods, interim knowledge assessment, continuous discussion of individual and group
work and other assignment results, supply of learning materials to students.
Cheating prevention
Variety of assignments for individual and group work reduces chances for plagiarism; cheating possibilities are prevented
by having extra help (PhD students) to inhibit any acts of dishonesty during exams.
Course content
Class hours

Week
No

Topic
Lecture

Practice

Readings from
the textbook

1.

Introduction to the logic of the course and forming study teams.

1. What is human resource management (HRM)?

2. 1 Chapter, 130 pp

2.

2. International HRM. HRM environment

3.

3. Strategic role of human resource management

4. Equal opportunities. Managing diversity

4.

5. Job analysis
6. HR planning and recruiting

5.

Interim exam

6.

7. Employee testing and selection

2. 6 Chapter,
209-252 pp

7.

8. Interviewing candidates
9. Orientation

2. 7 Chapter,
253-290 pp
2. 8 Chapter,
291334 pp

8.

10. Performance management and appraisal

2. 9 Chapter,
335-376 pp.

9.

11. Training and employee development. Talent management

2. 8 Chapter
291334 pp

10.

12. Managing careers

2.10 Chapter,
377-420 pp

11.

13. Compensation and Benefits

2. 11-13
Chapters, 421550 pp

12.

Review of the course

2. 17 Chapter,
693-736 pp
2. 3 Chapter,
77124 pp
2. 2 Chapter,
31-76 pp
2. 4 Chapter,
125164 pp
2. 5 Chapter,
165-208pp

Individual work and evaluation

Task

Total hours

Final grade, %

Group homework

25

20

Quizzes

17

15

Interim written exam (1-6 items)

35

30

Final written exam (7-13 items)

35

35

Total:

112

100

Assessment of the individual and group work

Group homework is presented as a set of practical tasks accomplished after classroom activities in order to embed
knowledge and skills. The volume of the homework, the duration of presentations, the detailed requirement for the format
and the content, and the evaluation criteria could be found in the ISM intranet. The written homework tasks should be
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delivered on the day of presentation.

Group homework makes 20% of final grade. The individual student will receive the grade of the group.
Consultations will be set during the practice time.
Quizzes will be organized assess how students prepared for the classes and what did they learn. The quizzes will be set
without advance notice. They consist of short-answer or/and multiple-choice questions as well as short cases. Quizzes
make 15 % of final grade.
Interim written exam will be organized as individual written exam encompassing 1-6 items of the course. The exam will
consist of theoretical short-answer or/and multiple-choice questions as well as cases. Interim written exam makes 30% of
final grade. Consultations will be set during the practice time.
Final written exam will be organized as individual written exam encompassing 7-13 items of the course. The exam will
consist of theoretical short-answer or/and multiple-choice questions as well as cases. Final written exam makes 35% of
final grade. Consultations will be set during the practice time.
Readings comprises the main as well as additional literature. Different articles and cases as the readings will be
assigned before the lecture. Individual readings will be assessed through the group reports, exams, quizzes as well as
class discussions.

Note that:
All the identified tasks should be accomplished during the semester according to the schedule given by the
lecturer. None of the tasks might be accomplished later on. The graded papers might only be viewed at the time set by
the lecturer.
If the final grade is negative, the student might be allowed to retake the exam during the exam retake session. In
that case the exam will consist of all semester material and be worth of 65% of final grade.

Literature
1. Alonderiene, R. (2005-2013). Selection of the Human Resource Management readings. Electronic version. Kaunas.
ISM
2. Dessler, G. (2008). Human Resource Management, 11th ed, Prentice Hall.
Additional literature
1. Fisher, C.D., Schoenfeldt, L.F., Shaw, J.B. (2003). Human resource management, 5 ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co.
2. Bakanauskien, I. (2008). Personalo valdymas, Kaunas: VDU leidykla.
th
3. Werner, S., Schuler, R.S. and Jackson, S.E. (2012). Human Resource Management, 11 International edition.
South-Western, Cengage Learning.
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4. Mathis, R.L. and Jackson, J.H. (2011). Human Resource Management, 13 ed. South-Western, Cengage Learning.
5. Nkomo, S., Fottler, M., McAfee, R.B. (2011). Applications in human resource management : cases, exercises, and
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skill builders, 7 ed. South-Western, Cengage Learning.
6. Alonderiene, R., Bakanauskiene, I. (2004). Darbuotoj vertinimas komandose. Organizacij vadyba: sisteminiai
tyrimai. Kaunas: VDU leidykla
rd
7. Price, A. (2007). Human Resource Management in a Business Context, 3 ed. Thomson Learning.
8. Burke, R.J., Cooper, C.L. (2005). Reinventing human resources management: challenges and new directions, New
York.
9. Greer, Ch.R. (2000). Strategic human resource management: a general managerial approach, Upper Saddle
River: Prentice Hall.
10. Human resources in the 21th century (2000). Effron, M., Gandossy, R., Goldsmith, M. (eds). New York: John Wiley
& Sons.

Role of the subject in reaching learning outcomes of Business Management programme

Special learning outcomes
S1. To analyze a company or an organization as an integral unit, which strives for certain goals
in a market or social environment by effectively distributing their finite resources among objects
and business activities and obtains synergies from coordinated function planning, organization
and management;
S2. To forecast the influence of economic and financial decisions not only in a financial context,
but also in the wider context of business or organization management, to estimate the effect of
economic and financial decisions on the processes of a company or an organization, the
motivation of companys human resources, product and service quality, customer satisfaction,
brand strength, corporate social responsibility;

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CLO 1

CLO 1, CLO 2

S3. To select and to apply in practice theories and models of companys or organizations
business organization, planning, management, motivation and control;

CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO

3, CLO 4, CLO 5,
CLO 6, CLO 7

S4. To identify new possibilities in national and international markets, to foresee, to analyze
and to assess target markets, their potential, to adapt the old products and services and to
develop the new ones for these markets, to communicate effectively ones proposals to the
market;
S5. To describe and to analyze financial management and financial decision making processes
in companies and other organizations, to solve problems of different levels of complexity in
financial and management accounting ;
S6. To describe the main economic theories and theoretical models, to adapt them to the
theoretical and practical issues (for example, demand and supply elasticity theory, economic
cycles, classical economic theory, Keynesianism, monetarism, rational expectations theory,
cost-benefit analysis);
S7. To analyze economic, legal, political and social environment of companies and other
organizations; to identify and to evaluate internal and external changes and to make necessary
decisions to keep the firms or organizations economic and financial stability;
S8. To plan and to organize manufacturing, service provision and other companys business
processes in short and long term, in national and international markets;

CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO

3, CLO 4, CLO 5,
CLO 6

S9. To name the main principles of business law and to be able to analyze simple cases in
business law.
S10. To explain the corporate social responsibility and to be able to apply its principles in
practice for a company operating in a local as well as international markets.
S11. To select adequate research methods for the companys internal and external analysis
and to conduct individually simple research of internal and external environment (to collect, to
organize and to interpret data, based on them to make managerial decisions).
S12. To name the main principles of strategic planning and management, to be able to analyze
in practice the strategic alternatives based on the companys or organizations competitive
environment and its resources, to create an outline of a strategic plan and to foresee tactical
actions to implement the strategy.

CLO 2, CLO 4, CLO

5, CLO 7
CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO
3, CLO 4, CLO 5

General learning outcomes

G1. To apply modern information technologies in the data gathering, analysis and
communication;
G2. To apply calculations, modelling, optimisation and statistical analysis skills for analysis of
managerial and economical programmes
G3. To apply a systematic, critical and constructive thinking in problem identification and
solving;
G4. To communicate well and express thoughts in writing and orally, both in English and native
language; to communicate with specialists and non-professional audiences;
G5. To prepare research papers according to proper language, writing style and general
bibliographic citation requirements;

CLO 2, CLO 4, CLO

6, CLO 7
CLO 7
CLO 7

G6. To develop independent learning skills necessary to continue studies on a higher level;

CLO 7

G7. To communicate and to work effectively in an intercultural and interdisciplinary group or

team.
G8. To know and to apply in practice certain aspects of various social sciences (history,
geography, sociology, logics, philosophy, arts, etc.), to supplement effectively the education of
business or economics by general knowledge.

CLO 7

Role of the subject in reaching learning outcomes of Finance programme

Special learning outcomes
S1. To describe the main economic theories and theoretical models, to adapt them to the
theoretical and practical issues (for example, demand and supply elasticity theory, economic
cycles, classical economic theory, Keynesianism, monetarism, rational expectations theory,
cost-benefit analysis);
S2. To describe and to analyze economic, legal, political and social environment of companies
and other organizations; to identify and to evaluate internal and external changes and to make
necessary decisions to keep the firms or organizations economic and financial stability;

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CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO

3, CLO 4, CLO 5,
CLO 6, CLO 7

S3. To forecast the influence of economic and financial decisions not only in a financial context,
but also in the wider context of business or organization management, to estimate the effect of
economic and financial decisions on the processes of a company or an organization, the
motivation of companys human resources, product and service quality, customer satisfaction,
brand strength, corporate social responsibility;
S4. To select mathematical, statistical, econometric and other appropriate research methods
and to conduct individually a simple economic analysis of a country, a sector or a company (to
collect, to organize and to interpret the data).
S5. To be able to analyze a company or an organization as an integral unit, which strives for
certain goals in a market or social environment by effectively distributing their finite resources
among objects and business activities and obtains synergies from coordinated function
planning, organization and management;
S6. To describe and to analyze financial management and financial decision making processes
in companies and other organizations, to solve problems of different levels of complexity in
financial and management accounting ;

CLO 1, CLO 2

CLO 1

S7. To explain the corporate social responsibility and to be able to apply its principles in
practice for a company operating in a local as well as international markets.
S8. To select adequate research methods for the companys internal and external analysis and
to conduct individually simple research of internal and external environment (to collect, to
organize and to interpret data, based on them to make managerial decisions).
S9. To describe the basic financial theories and theoretical models, to adapt them to the
theoretical and practical issues (for example, time value of money, evaluation of investment
projects, risk-return relationship, investment portfolio theory, stock and other securities pricing
models, capital costs, risk management, exchange rates, financial intermediaries);
S10. To explain the link between financial theories and practice, to apply that knowledge in
assessing the financial information (such as efficient markets hypothesis, anomalies, capital
structure);
S11. To describe and to analyze the financial management and financial decision-making
processes in business and other organizations;
S12. To describe the functions of financial markets and institutions, and to analyze their
activities;
S13. To describe the main financial products and services, to assess their strengths and
weaknesses from both the customers and the suppliers perspective;
S14. To prepare, to analyse and to evaluate the financial part of investment projects and
business plans;

CLO 2, CLO 4, CLO

5, CLO 7

General learning outcomes

G1. To apply modern information technologies in the data gathering, analysis and
communication;
G2. To apply a systematic, critical and constructive thinking in problem identification and
solving;
G3. To be able to communicate well and express thoughts in writing and orally, both in English
and native language; to communicate with specialists and non-professional audiences;
G4. To prepare research papers according to proper language, writing style and general
bibliographic citation requirements;
G5. To develop independent learning skills necessary to continue studies on a higher level;
G6. To communicate and to work effectively in an intercultural and interdisciplinary group or
team.

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CLO 2, CLO 4, CLO

6, CLO 7
CLO 7
CLO 7

CLO 7