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HRM 1 Week 1

Introductory Class Syllabus


and Methodology

Professor : Sebastin Ugarte, PhD


sugarte@unegocios.cl
Office room: 1106
Overview
Personal introduction
Class rules
Some opening questions
What is HRM?
Syllabus review (Learning methodology, learning goals,
assessments)

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Class rules

Respect Be constructive

Above HR
processes, what
Working in
matters is the
teams
business and its
people
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The value of specific skills in the labour market

From a company recruiter point of view, who is selecting


candidates for a company doing business internationally,
which attribute do you think is more important?
Holding a Master and/or PhD degree OR
Being fluent in English

Skills need to be practiced


Worldwide the fluency in English is strongly linked
to job opportunities, career progress and better paid
jobs.

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Let me show you Jobs in the Financial Services sector

Source: Robert Half, Gua salarial 2017 5


Opening questions

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What is Human Resource Management (HRM)?

The practices that influence employees behaviour, attitudes, and


performance.
The process of managing human talent to achieve an organisations
objectives.
Why Study HRM?

Staffing the organisation, designing jobs and teams, developing


(training) skilful employees, identifying approaches for improving their
performance, and rewarding employee successesall typically
labelled HRM issues
Are as relevant to line managers as they are to HR
professionals.

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HRM Practices

Important HRM practices include:

With the exception of employee relations, all these topics will be


covered in this course
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Learning methodology
Lately adopted FEN methodology (ADOP): Professional and
organisational challenges based learning

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Learning goals From the
organisational consultancy project

http://newsletter.fen.uchile.cl/nexolaboral_cursos/cursos.html

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The Consultancy process
Assessments

Type of assessment Weight


Consultancy project 60%
Preliminary report 15%
Final report 20%
Oral presentation 15%
Professionalism 10%
Five Quizzes 30%
Participation and attendance 10%

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Project grades will be weighted according to the contribution of
each member

The contribution means a good performance for the


team professionalism, being a good team member,
fulfilling commitment and responsibilities, good
professional skills and attitudes towards the
organisation and the team.
For example, if the grade of Group A on the Preliminary
Report is 6.0, then the individual grades are

Group 1 2 3 4 5 Averag
Member e
Contribution 100% 110% 90% 95% 105% 100%
Individual 6,0 6,6 5,4 5,7 6,3 6,0
Grade
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Consultancy project
Activity Date
Monday, March
Initial Ceremony
20th
First Visit to the Company March 20th 31st
Second Visit to the Company April 3rd 15th
Submission of one-page problem
April 6th
definition to TAs
Preliminary Report April 22nd (by 23
hrs)
Peer assessment form April 24th
Preliminary report mentoring April 24th May
15th
Third Visit to the Company May 15th 19th
Fourth Visit to the Company May 22nd 26th
Final report June 3rd
Oral presentation mentoring June 1st 12th
Oral presentations to organisations June 14th 30th
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Resubmission of Final report June 21st
Quizzes
The quizzes are important not only because they are worth 30% of
the final grade, also because that learning will contribute to the
quality of the proposals that you will make to your client
organisation
If you sustain your company findings with a robust HRM model
and/or process, your work will look more professional and
reliable
Given that it is not possible to make up for Quizzes you have
missed, you will have the opportunity to delete the worst grade out
of the five (or the one that you did not take/attend either for a
justified or not justified reason).

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Other assessments
360 Assessment or peer assessment. This is applied to
Preliminary report
Final report
Oral presentation

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The course is in English
Most of the course activities are developed in English, but as we
interact with organisations, not necessarily the companies will be
able to communicate in English.

Activities English Spanish


Lectures/ Classes
Class Participation
Teaching assistantships
Quizzes
Project reports
Meetings with ?
organisations and data
collection
Project final ?
presentation
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Mentoring sessions
Attendance and participation
Participation grade (10%) = f (Attendance, class contributions)

Class participation
Attendance No participation Low level (0,01- Good level High level (More
(Signature) (0 contributions 0,33 (0,34-0,7 than 0,7
per class) contributions per contributions per contributions per
class) class) class)
80% or more 5 5,5 6,5 7

70%-79% 4 5 5,5 6,5

60%-69% 3 4 5 5,5

50%-59% 2 3 4 5

Less than 50% 1 2 3 4

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Course approval requirements

An average of at least 4,0 in the Quizzes.


A final average, including all the assessments, of at least
4,0.

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Main textbook

The digital library


(DocenciaWeb) has the
following electronic editions of
the main textbook:
English edition: Snell, S. & Bohlander,
G. (2013). Principles of Human
Resource Management, International
Edition. 16th edition: Cengage Learning
Spanish edition: Snell, S. &
Bohlander, G. (2013). Administracin
de Recursos Humanos, International
Edition. 16 edicin: Cengage Learning

http://
pregrado.fen.uchile.cl/Pregrad
o/Login.aspx?Site=DocenciaWeb
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Any comments or questions?

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