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HRM40880

Academic Year 2024/2025

HRM Technology, Analytics & Digital Innovation (HRM40880)

Subject:
Human Resources Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Professor Anne Keegan
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This course examines the intersection of technology and HRM, exploring how digital advancements reshape HRM practice and the profession. We will examine the strategic use of HRM technologies, their influence on the HRM profession and function, and their societal implications. The module offers a critical lens to assess the opportunities and challenges of technology use in practices like employer branding, recruitment, selection, performance tracking, performance evaluation and performance management. Students will also explore technology's role in workforce management and probe developments such as people analytics, the gig economy and job deconstruction. We critically examine how technology impacts on a range of stakeholders, bearing in mind different outcomes like productivity, efficiency, job quality, employee voice, and well-being.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the module, students will be able to:
• Understand how technology transforms HRM practices and the HR function.
• Critically assess HR’s role in embracing technological change and innovation.
• Analyse how the use of technology influences key HR practices.
• Evaluate the role of people analytics in decision-making and strategy.
• Examine trends like the gig economy and job deconstruction and their HR implications.
• Assess HR professionals’ evolving role in ensuring responsible, ethical and sustainable HR practices as the use of technology to
manage people accelerates.

Indicative Module Content:

Technology and HRM - Function, profession and roles
Technology and HRM - Employer Branding, Recruitment and Selection
Technology and HRM - Performance Management, Tracking and Evaluation
People Analytics
Technology and the changing world of work - The Gig Economy and Job Deconstruction

A detailed module descriptor will be distributed prior to the commencement of the course.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

144
Autonomous Student Learning

82
Total

250

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Student engagement will be evoked through debate, discussion, presentations and critical analysis of case studies, legal developments, media reports and academic articles on the uses of technology, analytics and digital innovation in HRM practice and interactions with employees and other key stakeholders.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Group Work Assignment: Case study report (25% of final grade) and Group Presentation (15% of final grade). Details will be provided at the first session of the module. Week 7 Graded No
40
 No
Exam (In-person): 2-hour closed book in-person examination.
End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded No
60
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer Yes - 2 Hour
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?

Feedback on continuous assessment components will be provided to individuals or groups as relevant to the assessment type and following the assessment.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 26 Fri 10:00 - 12:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 33 Fri 11:00 - 12:50
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