Dirección de Personas (BBA10008)

General information

Type:	OB	Curs:	4	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	6 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Sec: A	Jordi Trullén Fernández	Dirección de Personas y Organización	CAT
Sec: A	Ignacio Serrano Rasero	Dirección de Personas y Organización	CAT

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Sec: B	Jordi Trullén Fernández	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ESP
Sec: B	Ignacio Serrano Rasero	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ESP

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Sec: C	Jordi Trullén Fernández	Dirección de Personas y Organización	CAT
Sec: C	Ignacio Serrano Rasero	Dirección de Personas y Organización	CAT

The course consists of 20 in-class sessions lasting 3 hours each.

The aim of this course is to provide students with a solid understanding of the criteria and processes involved in people management. The course's contribution to the programme is establishing the people management bases which future executives will have to be familiar with. In this respect, the course is aimed at future managers regardless of the functional area in which they work.

- Conceptualise and see people management as pertaining to the strategic area in organisations.

- Understand what the main policies associated with people management in organisations are (recruitment, selection, remuneration, organisation, promotion, performance, etc.).

- Understand the challenges people management implies.

- Know how to react to the people management problems that tend to arise in executives' day-to-day work.

6. Strategic thought, systematic thought

1. Knowledge acquisition, comprehension and structuring

4. Conveying information and/or knowledge

1. Gloval vision of people management: What strategic HR management means Overview of approaches to personnel policy from the perspective of company policies.

2. Integration Recruitment, selection and joining an organisation. Assignment and adjustment of person/post. Organisational and personnel development: professional career planning and promotion options. Leaving organisations: cutting links.

3. Contribution People's expectations and the organisations' needs: Establishing expected contributions. Variables that influence performance. Perfomance review processes: aims and means. Evaluation implications: decisions regarding salary, training and employment.

4. Remuneration Remuneration criteria and establishing salary structures. Defining salary levels in internal labour markets: internal equity and external competitiveness. Additional salary elements: motivation, integration and professional career expectations.

5. People management by executives Common challenges faced by novel executives. How to achieve our employees' commitment. How to manage difficult or low-performance employees. How to manage difficult peers or superiors. How to manage high-performance workers and executives who don't adapt well to the group. Managing success and failure.

ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN

Gómez-Mejía, Luis R.; Balkin, David B.; Cardy. Dirección y gestión de recursos humanos.
Jackson, S., Schuler, R. y Werner, S. (2009). Managing human resources. CENGAGE Learning, 10ª edición..
Dolan, S.L., Valle Cabrera, R., Jackson, S.E. y Schuler, R.S. . La gestión de los recursos humanos. Cómo atraer, retener y desarrollar con éxito el capital humano en tiempos de transformación. McGraw-Hill: Aravaca (Madrid).. 2007 (3ª edición).
Lepak, D. y Gowan, M. . Human Resource Management. Managing employees for competitive advantage. Pearson: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 2010
Baron & Kreps. Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers. (Wiley).

Group	Teacher	Department
Sec: A	Jordi Trullén Fernández	Dirección de Personas y Organización
Sec: A	Ignacio Serrano Rasero	Dirección de Personas y Organización

Group	Teacher	Department
Sec: B	Jordi Trullén Fernández	Dirección de Personas y Organización
Sec: B	Ignacio Serrano Rasero	Dirección de Personas y Organización

Group	Teacher	Department
Sec: C	Jordi Trullén Fernández	Dirección de Personas y Organización
Sec: C	Ignacio Serrano Rasero	Dirección de Personas y Organización