2024

Human Resources Development

Name: Human Resources Development
Code: SOC02429L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Sociology

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

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Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Specifically, this course has the following objectives:
a) Understand the sociological foundations of HRM and recognize the contributions of the sociological perspective to the management of social systems in the workplace;
b) analyze and contextualize the evolution of ideas about man's place in work and organizations;
c) To characterize the models of HRM,
d) Understand and describe policies and practices of HRM,
e) Reflect on the key challenges facing the HRM
f) Define the concept of HRD and establish its relationship with the concepts of qualification, skills and employability;
g) Know and contextualize the evolution of the paradigms of education and training;
h) establish the relationship between the concept of HRD and other variables in the organizational context.

Contents

1. DRH: definition, origins and disciplinary foundations
2. DRH in the individual, organizational and societal sense
3. Society (s), Culture (s) and Organizations
4. Surroundings, new organizational configurations and HRD
4.1. Relationship models between organizations
4.2. Primary and secondary labor markets
4.3. Management and HRD policies and practices
5. Business / organizational strategies in the era of globalization
5.1. Technological innovation versus organizational and social innovation
5.2. Outsourcing and relocation of economic activities
5.3. Competitiveness by price versus competitiveness by innovation / knowledge
6. Technology, Innovation and the future of Employment
7. Social change, social movements and collective behavior

Teaching Methods

Teaching / learning methodology:
- Oral exposition of theoretical issues, supported by audio-visual media and illustrated with case studies and examples of concrete social reality;
- Developed summaries of the issues discussed in with indication of specific support texts;
- Individual and group reading of texts;
- Reading texts and structured oral presentation of the author's main ideas;
- Participation in conferences of sociological interest;
- Monitoring tutorial attendance and distance learning (http://www.moodle.uevora.pt)
School Internal Regulation establishes two types of assessment - continuous assessment process or a final examination:
Continuous assessment: written examination (60%) + work group with oral presentation and discussion in (40%)
Final examination: written examination (100%).

Teaching Staff