Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

The candidate:

- Is able to identify and define key tasks within the field of personnel administration/human resources

- Can define personnel leadership responsibilities in an organisation

- Is able to view human resources in an organisational strategic perspective

- Can plan and implement training programs in the workplace

- Can identify factors related to staff satisfaction and motivation

- Can view personnel administration in a historical perspective

- Can assess activities from a HSE perspective

- Can view personnel administration in life-phase, diversity and integration perspectives

Course Description

- Developmental trends in the workplace

- The main elements of personnel administration

- Important stages of the recruitment process

- Health, environment and safety requirements in the workplace

- Performance appraisals

- Job-descriptions

- Working hours arrangements

- The effect of various types of incentives in stimulating motivation and goal-achievement

- Methods and systems for competence development

- Methods and accepted practices for reducing headcount

Teaching and Learning Methods

3 hours of lectures per week. The teaching is supplemented by group work and plenary discussions. Students will complete old examination questions. Visits to companies and guest lectures may also be included in the course.

Assessment Methods

Four-hour written examination. Individual home assignment, which must receive a passing mark before students will be permitted to sit the final examination.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean