Welcome to Human Resource Management (HRMGT202-21A).

HRMGT202 is the introductory paper to the human resource management major and should ideally be taken as a precursor to other papers in the major. It covers a wide range of human resource management topics, typical of the discipline and with wide practical application in the workplace. The knowledge acquired in HRMGT202 is useful to specialists, wanting to establish a career focused on human resource management (e.g., HR assistant, HR coordinator, HR manager, HR director), but also to others (e.g., accountants, marketers, financiers, entrepreneurs, business owners) who still regularly need and apply human resource skills to key decisions (e.g., negotiation of employment contracts, hiring, performance appraisal, promotion, discipline, and dismissal).

This paper looks at the key areas of what is known as human resource management: the management of people at work. It uses recent research, together with practical case studies and exercises to examine how employees are acquired, trained, managed, motivated and rewarded to improve individual and organisational performance, within ever-changing economic and social contexts.

Alfred Marshall Prize in Human Resource Management

The prize was established in 1980 from a fund set up for the purpose by Professor Alfred (Fred) Marshall’s colleagues. The fund has subsequently been added to by contributions from Waikato Management School. Professor Marshall was a foundation member of what was then known as the Department of Management Studies and the prize was originally termed the “Alfred Marshall Prize in Administration”. The value of the prize will be $250 and will be awarded to the student who has the highest grade in the paper, over the calendar year.

This paper involves 3 different modes of delivery:

First, ALL students are expected to watch ALL relevant Panopto recordings prior to the Zoom or face-to-face class. Each recording is normally 5 - 12 minutes long. There are usually at least 3 and at most 7 such recordings per week. Together, these cover the slides already uploaded onto Moodle. These recordings can be found on the HRMGT202 Moodle page on the right of your screen.

Second, there will be a face-to-face session each week, held at the university in the pre-announced lecture theatre. At these face-to-face sessions, the focus will be mainly on case studies and practical exercises. There'll be a chance to discuss these with fellow students and the lecturer. Students will be expected to have watched the Panopto recordings prior to attending these face-to-face classes. Face-to-face classes will last approximately 45 to 90 minutes, depending on the topic, student understanding, and the amount and level of discussion. Please check the paper outline for the class time.

Third, there will also be an equivalent Zoom session, more or less with the same purpose, the same content, and the same sorts of interactions as the face-to-face session, centred around the same case studies etc. The Zoom sessions are designed to be a substitute for the face-to-face sessions.

Students are strongly encouraged to come to either face-to-face or Zoom sessions, and you're free to come to both.

The assessments will be very much based on the Panopto recordings and the Zoom/face-to-face sessions.

There are no tutorials. Students will complete four assessments. Please see below for more detail.

Stone, R. J. (2017). Human Resource Management (9th. Ed.) Australia: Wiley

Other Facilitating Resources:

• Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
• Asia Pacific Journal of Management
• Human Relations
• Human Resource Management
• Human Resource Management Journal
• Human Resource Management Review
• International Journal of Human Resource Management
• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Management
• Journal of Management Studies
• Journal of Management and Organisation
• Journal of Organizational Behaviour
• Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes
• Organisation Studies
• Personnel Review
• Work, Employment and Society