Objectives and competences
The aim is analyzing significant aspects of the development and training of employees. The emphasis is on themes that stress the importance of structural context with the planning and evaluating the knowledge results in the development and training. In the forefront are issues about analysis and comparison of different approaches to employee development, the possibility of using different methods and forms of learning and development in organizations, planning training programs, evaluating employee development and overcoming stress at the workplace.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• The meaning of environment for development of employees
• Aims and strategies of employee development
• Learning theories
• Organizational learning
• Activities of learning and development in an organization
• Determining of needs for learning
• Planning of training programs
• Methods of learning and training
• Evaluation of the development and training activities
• Training of expatriates
• Training in managing stress in work settings
Learning and teaching methods
" lectures
" discussions
" case studies
" workshops
" team building
" videos and films
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
In this course students:
1. Students will use general content and methodological knowledge about newer approaches to addressing HR development issues (PILO 1a),
2. Students will use general and specific knowledge about human resource development to address companies (PILO 2a),
3. Students will use general and specific knowledge to explain different approaches to human resource development in companies (PILO 2a),
4. Students will use new knowledge in the field of human resource development to address contemporary organizational issues (PILO 3a),
5. Students will use content and methodological knowledge to implicate newer concepts of problem solving and decision-making in HR development (PILO 3a),
6. Students will use knowledge and skills for independent and innovative resolution of practical problems in the field of human resource development (PILO 3a, PILO 4a),
7. Students will use knowledge and skills for complex analysis and critical assessment of individual HR development solutions, their application in practice and comprehensive presentation their results (PILO 2c, PILO 4b), 8. Students will use knowledge and skills to organize independent work and work in a group (as a leader or member) and appropriate communication skills to effectively present the results of their work (PILO 3c),
9. Students will use knowledge and skills to understand the use of digitalization, automation, robotization and artificial intelligence and critically assess the results of their use in practice (PILO 3a), and
10. Students will use knowledge and skills to ethically, socially responsible and sustainably solve practical problems in the field of sustainable development (PILO 4b, PILO 4c).
The PILO label (i.e., Programme Intended Learning Outcomes) defines the contribution of each listed intended learning outcome of a course towards achieving the general and/or subject-specific competencies or learning outcomes acquired through the programme.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
In this course students:
1. Students will use general content and methodological knowledge about newer approaches to addressing HR development issues (PILO 1a),
2. Students will use general and specific knowledge about human resource development to address companies (PILO 2a),
3. Students will use general and specific knowledge to explain different approaches to human resource development in companies (PILO 2a),
4. Students will use new knowledge in the field of human resource development to address contemporary organizational issues (PILO 3a),
5. Students will use content and methodological knowledge to implicate newer concepts of problem solving and decision-making in HR development (PILO 3a),
6. Students will use knowledge and skills for independent and innovative resolution of practical problems in the field of human resource development (PILO 3a, PILO 4a),
7. Students will use knowledge and skills for complex analysis and critical assessment of individual HR development solutions, their application in practice and comprehensive presentation their results (PILO 2c, PILO 4b), 8. Students will use knowledge and skills to organize independent work and work in a group (as a leader or member) and appropriate communication skills to effectively present the results of their work (PILO 3c),
9. Students will use knowledge and skills to understand the use of digitalization, automation, robotization and artificial intelligence and critically assess the results of their use in practice (PILO 3a), and
10. Students will use knowledge and skills to ethically, socially responsible and sustainably solve practical problems in the field of sustainable development (PILO 4b, PILO 4c).
The PILO label (i.e., Programme Intended Learning Outcomes) defines the contribution of each listed intended learning outcome of a course towards achieving the general and/or subject-specific competencies or learning outcomes acquired through the programme.
Readings
• M. Armstrong & S. Taylor: Armstrong‘s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, Part V – Learning and developoment, Kogan Page Limited, 2017 .
• S. Treven: Premagovanje stresa, Gospodarski vestnik, Ljubljana, 2005
• dopolnila: Metode učenja in razvoja, Mentorstvo, Coaching, Dobro počutje (E-gradiva)
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