Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (2023-25) Batch

Area: HR&OB

Course Title – Human Resource Management

Term-II
Credit Value: 3
(Sections: A, B & C)

Course Faculty: Prof. A Uday Bhaskar

Phone (O): 91- 120 4083231
Email: abhaskar@imt.edu
Office: Wing II, Ground Floor

Faculty Contact Hours (for students): By prior appointment

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Course Description:
This course provides students with an understanding of Human Resource Management as an
integrated and strategic business process. The objective of the subject is to make students undertake
critical reflective thinking and practice that will open new ways and promote ideas for company’s
competitive advantage. The overall aim of the subject is to help students develop the necessary
skills required for a manager in the contemporary business world.

Learning Objectives:
a. Demonstrate high degree of People skills to manage human relations in business context.
b. Demonstrate high level of cross-cultural understanding. Developing cross cultural
competency to understand, design & execute HR subsystems in MNCs.
c. Developing insights on people management and learn how to align and integrate HR
subsystems for enhancing organizational effectiveness.
d. Critically analyze situations to suggest innovative future growth opportunities through
effective deployment of human capital.
e. Understand Industrial/Employee relations climate and the associated legal framework
(Labour Laws) (objective 2.1)

Pedagogy:
The course will be primarily delivered through lectures, cases, class exercises and role plays.

Course Requirements:
i. Since much of the course material requires class discussion, it is important that the students should
come prepared for the class and present and defend their ideas in course of the discussion. So pre-
reading of the assigned material is a pre-requisite for the class discussion. Preparation for class
includes reading the assigned material.
ii. The class will be divided into a number of groups and each group will have 5-7 students. For all
group assignments, each group will submit its recommendations/solutions meeting the deadlines
specified by the faculty. Late submissions will not be accepted.
iii. Class participation will be based on the value you add to the class through your questions,
statement, and comments. It is the quality of these that is more important than the quantity.
iv. Mobile phones shall strictly be switched off before the start of each session. Silent mode is not
permissible to ensure focused learning. Laptops/tablets can be used by the students in the classroom
only upon the instruction of the faculty.

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 Course Outline: Session Plan
Session No. Topic Case(s)/ Reading(s)
1 Human Resource Management – An Reading: Chapter 1 (Prescribed Text)
Introduction
HRM and its linkages to corporate Reading: Stop Reengineering People
strategy & business processes; Role of HR Management
in strategy formulation and execution

2 HR Processes: Subsystems, congruence Reading: Chapter 3 (Prescribed Text)

and Integration
Case: Southwest Airlines (A)
3 HR Processes I: HR Planning & Job Reading: Chapter 4 (Prescribed Text)
Analysis
Job description and Job Specification; and Reading: Designing Work that People
the emerging concept of role Love
specification.
4 HR Processes II: Recruitment & Reading: Chapter 5 (Prescribed Text)
selection Reading: Note on the Hiring and
Recruitment and Selection process and Selection Process
methods. Use of Social Media in
applicants sourcing. Talent Analytics. Case: SG Cowen: New Recruits

5 HR Processes III: Training & Reading: Chapter 8 (Prescribed Text)

development
Training and Development concepts, Case: Sales Force Training at Arrow
Designing & Evaluation of training Electronics (A)
programs using Kirkpatrick Framework.

QUIZ I
6 HR Processes IV: Performance Reading: Chapter 9 (Prescribed Text)
management
Performance appraisal, Methods of Reading: Performance management
Appraisal, Giving Feedback and holding shouldn’t kill Collaboration
Meaningful Conversations.

7 Managing Performance Reading: Chapter 9

Goal setting, KRAs, Evaluation,
Case: Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley
Determining Performance linked Bonus, (A)
Real-time Performance Management
Tools
8 Career Planning Reading: Chapter 10 (Prescribed Text)
Meaning of Careers, New career models-
Protean, Boundaryless careers. Career Case: Traversing a Career Path: Pat-

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 Pathing Strategies, Job Families. Fili-Krushel (A)
Individual career management strategies

9 Succession Management Reading: Developing your Leadership

Planning and Managing Succession. Pipeline
Practices of Family-owned firms vis-à-vis
Professional Services Firms. Succession Case: Dabur India: Growing
Management in PSUs. Role of Board in Professional Management from Family
Succession Planning Roots
10 Compensation and Reward Reading: Chapter 11 (Prescribed Text)
Management
Factors affecting Compensation Design, Reading: Compensation packages that
Pay Philosophy, Role of Wage Code in actually drives performance
fixing compensation. Components of Pay.
Types of Rewards. Calculating Bonus Case: Merck & Co., Inc. (A)
Payments.
QUIZ 2
11 International HRM Reading: Chapter 17 (Prescribed Text)
International Staffing policies,
Expatriation and Repatriation, Managing Case: Colgate Palmolive: Managing
Global Talent, Compensation issues International Careers
arising out of expatriation.

12 Managing Employee Relations Reading: Chapter 14 (Prescribed Text)

Rise of employee associations in Hi-Tech
industries. Gig workers and their Rights Reading: How Uber Uses
and their Unions. Psychological Tricks to Push its
Drivers’ Buttons
13 Code on Wages Reading: Chapter 2 (Prescribed Text)

14 Code on Industrial Relations Reading: Chapter 2 (Prescribed Text)

15 Code on Social Security Reading: Chapter 2 (Prescribed Text)

QUIZ 3
16 Code on Safety, Health and Working Reading: Chapter 2 (Prescribed Text)
Conditions
17 POSH at the Workplace Reading: Chapter 2 (Prescribed Text)
Issues, procedures, ICC, Case Laws.

18 HR Analytics Reading: A strategic approach to

Metrics, dashboards, Data Analysis, workforce analytics: Integrating
Making sense of Data, Decision making science and agility
using output of analytics.

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19 & 20 Group Project Presentations

Assessment Methods in Alignment with Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will be evaluated on the basis of case analysis, project, quizzes, class participation,
individual assignments, and end-term exam. The weightage given to each of these units is listed
below:
Specific Assessment Method Weightage Intended subject
learning outcome
(2.1) to be assessed

Group Assessment Methods 20%

Group Project Submission 10%

Group Project Presentation 10%

Individual Assessment Methods 80%

Class Participation & individual 20%

assignments

Quiz 20%

End-term Exam 40% √

Textbook: Dessler Gary & Biju Varkkey (2016), Human Resource Management-16th edition,
Pearson Education Private Ltd.

Reference Books:

• Dessler Gary (2008), Human Resource Management, Pearson Education Private Ltd.
We will decide on the Text Book.
• Gomez-Mejia Luis, Balkin David, Cardy Robert (2009), Managing Human Resources,
Prentice Hall International Inc., London
• Ivancevich, J.M. (2008), Human Resource Management, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.

Recommended Periodicals/Newspapers, Research Reports

People Matters, Human Capital, Training and Development, HR Magazine, The Smart
Manager, Business Week, Business Today, The Economic Times, Times of India, Bersin,
CEB-Gartner, Mercer, Hewitt etc.

Recommended Academic Journals

Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, International Journal of HRM,
Academy of Management Perspectives