Faculty of Business & Economics
Department of Business Administration & Marketing
Second Semester 2022/2023
Course Syllabus
Course information:
Course Code:BUSA330
Course Name: Human Resource Management
Prerequisite: BUSA230
Instructor information:
Instructor name Email
1. Niveen Eid
Office
neid@birzeit.edu AlJuraysi209
Lecture information:
Lecture #
1
3
Office
phone
5660
Office Hours
T.R 12:40-13:40
Day/ Time/ Room
M.W. 12:40-14:05 Al-Juraysi325
M.W. 11:25-12:40 Al-Juraysi325
Course Description
 This is an introductory course in Human Resource Management which conveys HRM as
an integrative organizational function under the context of business organizations. More
precisely, it deconstructs the most basic HRM operational processes of job analysis, HR
planning, employee attraction, appraisal, development, compensation, retention, work
ethics, employment relations, and health and safety issues.

The learning approach tackles an HRM mainstream perspective instilled by the world's
best practices while adopting a set of skill-building exercises.

This course is a capstone course for other relevant HRM courses in our business
department. Students who pursue a degree in "Business Administration with a
concentration in HRM" should obtain a grade of 73% or above in this course.
Course Objectives
This is a core business course that intends to:
1- Provide students with general understanding about managing human capacities at
organizations and how is that related to the management process.
2- Recognize the role of people as a valuable resource to bring in organizational
sustainability, its overall performance and profitability.
3- Acquire basic knowledge of the key HRM processes including employee attraction,
development, compensation, retention, health and safety, and labor relations.
4- Elaborate on some of the common human resource management theories and practices
applied by the world most successful organizations.
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Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to acquire and build fundamental
sets of skills in each of the following areas:
1- Knowledge and understanding
 Understand the technical side of HRM processes including functions of
employee attraction, development, compensation and retention.
 Provide students with full and practical introduction to the HRM concepts and
techniques, with a focus on how to use those techniques to improve
performance, productivity and profitability at work.
2- Intellectual/Cognitive skills
 Differentiate talent management perspective from traditional HRM.
 Relate contemporary trends and HRM issues such as the labor laws and
legislation, general context, business ethics, labor relations, technology,
innovation and sustainability.
 Distinguish the personnel roles of HR managers and line and functional
managers.
3- Subject specific and practical skills
 Develop job analysis documents.
 Apply HRM knowledge to business cases and critical issues
 Analyze HRM cases and dilemmas
4- General and transferable skills
 Develop a human-oriented perspective about management and organizations.
 Link HRM theories and methodologies to practice.
 Apply for professional certificates in the HRM discipline.
Teaching & learning methods
 Lectures
 Discussion Sessions
 Short Cases
 Videos
 Group exercises
 Tests
 Quizzes
BUSA 330 Course Evaluation & Grade Distribution
Assessment form
First Hour exam (Chapters 1, 4, 5)
Second Hour Exam (Chapters 6, 7)
Final Exam (Chapters (8, 9, 11+12, 13)
Course work
Quizzes (2 quizzes)
Attendance and Participation
Grades
(100%)
20%
20%
30%
10%
10%
10%
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Course Details & Content
Week
1-2
3-4
5-6
6-7
Chapte
rs
1
4
5
6
8
9-10
11-12
13-14
7
8
9
11+12
15
13
Subjects
Introduction to HRM and Strategic HRM.
Job Analysis and Talent Management.
HR planning, Succession planning and Recruiting.
Employee Selection: Application forms, background Checks and Selection
Tests.
Employee Selection: Selection Interviews.
Employee Orientation, Training and Development.
Performance Management and Performance Appraisal.
Seniority-based Pay, Pay for Performance, Employee Motivation and
Financial Incentives.
Employee Benefits and Services.
Course Policies and Academic Offenses
 Full attendance. Students should be actively engaged in every lecture, thus
students should be always present.
 Students who have urgent issues are required to inform their instructor via Ritaj
days before the lecture.
 Punctuality in respect of: class attendance and the submission of coursework.
 Late essays / reports or presentations will not be checked.
 Copying others' work, cheating, or assigning your work to an external party will be
treated as cheating and plagiarism. Also, students shall not copy/paste exact
contents from the web while applying their exercises.
 Cheating is not going to be tolerated.
 It is your duty to regularly check your Ritaj account during the semester.
 Activate your ITC moodle accounts since day one.
 Group work is essential in this course so any tensions among group members and
any lack of coordination should be addressed before deadline.
 Formal correspondence using rtaj and email is encouraged, students should not
correspond with their instructor using social media platforms.
 Some classes might be carried out electronically uisng ITC and Moodle (only
under extreme circumstances).
 Please do show respect to everyone inside your class and while corresponding with
external stakeholders.
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References
A. Essential books /textbooks
Dessler, G. (2019). Human Resource Management (Ed.16)
Pearson/Prentice – Hall (Global Edition). ISBN: 1292309121,
9781292309125.
B. Recommended books and Readings
1. Berger, L. A., & Berger, D. R. (2004). The talent management
handbook: Creating organizational excellence by identifying,
developing, and promoting your best people. New York: McGraw-Hill.
2. Belcourt, M., Bohlander, G. W., & Snell, S. (2005). Managing human
resources. Toronto: Thomson/Nelson.
Cases on Critical Practices for Modern and Future Human
Resources Management
Devi Akella (Albany State University, USA), Niveen Eid (Birzeit University, Palestine), and Anton
Sabella (Birzeit University, Palestine)
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: March, 2021|Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 322
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5820-1
ISBN13: 9781799858201|ISBN10: 1799858200|EISBN13: 9781799858218|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799868545
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C. Periodicals and journals
 Human Resource Management Review
 Journal of Organization Studies
 Organization Science
 Human Resource Management
 General Management
 Organizational Analysis
 Industrial Relations
 Labor Relations
D. Web sites
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/human-resource-managementreview/most-cited-articles
https://www.shrm.org
http://humanresources.about.com/.
http://www.hr.com/.
http://hr.blr.com/.
study.com
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