02-052/ Pridobivanje in razvoj kadrov/ Recruitment and Human Resource Development Content (Syllabus outline): 1. Recruitment of human resources 2. Determining job description and characteristics of persons performing work 3. Methods of human resource recruitment 4. Methods of human resource selection 5. Components of human resource development in an organisation 6. Learning organisation: learning, training, education 7. Professional development, promotion and human resource development 8. Evaluation and remuneration 9. Managing organisational changes 10. Trends in the field of human resource development Objectives and competences: Students will develop general competences: • ability to analyse, synthesise and foresee solutions and consequences in the field of recruitment and development of human resources in an organisation, • students will become familiar with some research methods, procedures and processes from the field of human resource recruitment and development, • critical thinking the field of formation and management of the systems for human resources in an organisation, • ability to use their knowledge from the field of human resource recruitment and development in practice, • ability to work in a group (and in an international environment) and to tolerate and observe constructive criticism and remarks. Students will develop course - specific competences: • understanding and comprehension of the differences and contact points between human resource management and development, • understanding the meaning of appropriate selection of new human resources, • ability to resolve concrete expert problems from the field of specific methods, obtaining and selection of human resources and from the field of development, education, promotion and careers of employees, • comprehensive understanding of a specific knowledge from the field of employee management, planning, selection and methods of human resource selection, determining the complexity of work and behavioural dimensions and candidate’s competences, • comprehensive understanding of a specific knowledge from the field of human resource management, training and development of careers in an organisation, • ability to search for new information from the field of behavioural sciences in literature and practice, and ability to place these into an appropriate professional framework, • development of skills and aptitudes in an individual professional field, which will be developed by students during tutorials and seminars within the subject, • understanding and application of critical analysis, and development of theories and their application in solving concrete expert problems. Intended learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: • understand the connection and the relationship between the strategic and operative level of planning and recruiting human resources, • understand the need for human resources in an organisation, • evaluate the sources providing human resources with regard to the type of work, level in the organisation and the organisation activity, • define the following notions: work analysis, workplace, complexity of work, competences required for work, appropriateness and work qualifications, • understand that the process of work analysis has to be carried out before defining demands of a workplace, workplace characteristics and the required employee competences, • enumerate and describe basic characteristics of the most frequently used methods of human resource recruitment, • define the advantages and disadvantages of individual methods, • understand which is the most optimum method in given circumstances, • understand the impact of various organisations and type of work on determining the most optimum method of human resources acquisition, • enumerate and define the characteristics of human resource selection methods, • understand which methods are more reliable and why in foretelling the actual competences of candidates for work compared to others, • recognise the most and the least reliable methods, and will be able to enumerate which ones are the most frequently used in Slovenia and in the world, • define systemic and individual aspects of human resource development in an organisation, • explain and define the role and the meaning, similarities and differences among daily and annual development talks, • explain the following notions: learning organisation, training and education, • understand the significance of training for the development of an organisation and an individual, • understand and use the methods for establishing the need for training and assessing training results, • understand the notions such as personal, professional and work development. • recognise the typical models of careers of individuals and reasons for their introduction in a company, • form basic conditions for the formation of a system for vertical and horizontal promotion, • understand the connection between the motivational remuneration system and the system of training and development of human resources – promotion, • understand the meaning of appropriate structure of individual elements of the remuneration system, • competently form the system of human resources development from the perspective of organisation development, technological changes globalisation and automatisation, so that they will support change management in an organisation and influence work motivation, • enumerate typical new types and forms of work, • understand the role and the meaning of flexibility on the labour market, an individual and an organisation, • understand the following notion: outsourcing of personnel and work, • explain the meaning of an appropriate portfolio knowledge, capabilities and skills, • explain the notion “employability” and the related role of an individual and an organisation. Assessment: Longer written casework Final examination (writen/oral)