HRM40900

Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically assess the potential contribution of HR strategy and related practices to the success of a business.
2. Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of selected human resource policies and their application in practice, including, for example, employee resourcing, learning and development, performance management, compensation systems and international HRM.
3. Appreciate current challenges faced by HR functions and line managers with respect to the management of employees

Indicative Module Content:

1. Employee/People Resourcing
2. Learning and Development
3. Performance Management
4. Rewards Management
5. Practice of Rewards Management
6. Benefits in the Workplace
7. Executive Compensation
8. International Human Resource Management

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

The approaches to teaching and learning span a mix of bespoke asynchronous recordings, ancillary learning tasks and tests, discussion threads, group exercises, individual reading/research and live online webinars. Students are expected to keep pace with the schedule of presentations and associated activities. Participation is a vital element in the design of this module, allowing students an opportunity to form, air and rebut their critical judgements. As a key component of this online program, the parallel discussion and debate forum creates a dynamic real-time environment for learning.

The assessment for this module is anchored in contemporary HR practices. Students are asked to refer to familiar and relatable practices. There is an expectation that academic journals are a primary source of knowledge; the lens for discovery being guided both by class material and the student's personal experience. Students are asked to indicate which pieces of literature they find most useful. Generative AI is not afforded a deliberate role in either assignment or discussion, nor are tracts so derived given significant scope for reward.

The Harvard referencing system is used for this module.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

The feedback strategy includes individualised feedback via Brightspace to students within two weeks of receipt of the project proposal. The central objective is to affirm the student's topic choice and methodology or to offer suggestion should another direction be more opportune. Students are pointed towards the grade descriptors on the UCD website. The second piece of feedback is on foot of the group submission. The aim is group feedback, the premise being that the contribution across the group was equal. The metrics include content and visual presentation. The third tranche of formal feedback is contingent upon the submission timeline. When the individual project forms part of the final assessment the feedback is withheld but provisional grades are made available to the relevant examination boards.