This course will develop the essential skills, knowledge and methodologies to successfully measure, assess and monitor the process of manpower planning and personnel management. This is very interactive course covering range of approaches related to job structuring and design focused on better recruitment and retention strategies for keeping talent well into the future. Students will be exposed to a number of cutting-edge techniques designed to fit a variety of situations. As this will be a course of numerous concepts to consider, the course will allow the students to testify their own individual situations so that they feel the confidence to implement effective manpower planning and strategies as well.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: HRM 601
Course Name:
Manpower Planning & Personnel Policy
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: HRM 602
Course Name:
Training and Development
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course provides knowledge of the current issues surrounding training and development and an understanding of the major elements of training and development including: learning theories needs analysis, program design, training methods, and how to evaluate the development initiatives.
Course Code: HRM 603
Course Name:
Compensation Management
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course focuses on an advanced workplace perspective for developing and evaluating compensation policies and practices. Managing the various forms of compensation programmers is complex and issues concerning fairness and effectiveness of pay plans, as they affect working performances. Professionals, who design, implement and evaluate compensation programmers are often required to balance conflicting variables. These variables include the financial interests of employees, external competition for talented employees, internal pressures for cost containment, executive roles in shaping organizational cultures, ethical considerations, the role of government, and the influence of long-range business plans. Throughout the semester the impact of these variables on compensation management are covered in detail.
Course Code: HRM 604
Course Name:
Performance Management
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to enable them to effectively introduce a performance management system. Special emphasis will be placed on how to prepare for and conduct performance discussions that are objective, complete, and defensible. Students will share experiences and participate in various exercises to ensure that they fully understand ways to get the best possible performance from employees. Students will therefore obtain a basic understanding about the critical aspects, when developing a performance management & measurement system.
Course Code: HRM 605
Course Name:
Industrial & Employee Relations
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course deals with worker-employer conflicts, origin of the development of trade union, trade unionism in the subcontinent, theories of union, process of collective bargaining, industrial dispute, grievance handling, strike and lockout, arbitration and labor laws. These are discussed in the context of socio-political and economic situation of Bangladesh. Labor laws of Bangladesh are to be studied in the course.
Course Code: HRM 606
Course Name:
Strategic HRM
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The basis of any success of an organization depends on the corporate outlook and the long-term human resource planning. This course is exclusively designed to address the issues related to strategic decisions in human resource planning. Credits: 3; Prerequisite: Relevant core courses.
Course Code: HRM 607
Course Name:
Negotiation and Conflict Management
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course draws from the experiential workshops on Negotiation conducted at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School & Mediation programs by Leader in Australia and also the work on “difficult conversations” by the Harvard Negotiations Project. The theory of negotiation and conflict resolution will be introduced through short lecture, discussions and papers. Participants are then expected to apply and demonstrate the acquired knowledge through practice negotiations, meditations and one-on-one difficult conversations.