Description:

After completing the course the student will be able to:

- understand the history of human resources in health care organizations, originating from a few scattered tasks to a centralized activity, assuming additional necessary responsibilities as they arose.
- describe or formulate the mission of HR department or area in healthcare organization
- understand and apply the principles of teamwork
- describe the principles of good leadership and people management

Objectives:

-to enable students to approach Human Resource Management in a systematic manner and to recognize its importance for strategic management in Health Care Institutions;
-to enable students to reflect and where appropriate, modify policies and practices internal to the organization with reference to pressures from external institutions;
-to help students to come to terms with the complex nature of the employment relationship and how the interlocking tasks of Human Resource management respond to changes which occur over time in individual employees and the workforce as a whole.

Contents:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Human Resources Planning
2. Job Design and Analysis
3. Recruitment and Selection
4. Employee Development and Performance Appraisal
5. Employee Engagement
6. Compensation and Benefits
7. Recognition and Reward

Seminar contents:

Syllabus of seminars:

1. Human Resources and its role
2. Leadership and effective leader
3. Motivation
4. Teamwork
5. CV and Assessment Centre
6. Communication in HR
7. Test

Recommended literature:

Required:
Flipchart, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Camera

Recommended:
(1) ARTHUR, Diane. Fundamentals of human resources management, fourth edition. 4th ed. Saranac Lake, N.Y.: American Management Association, c2004.
(2) MARTOCCHIO, Joseph J. Research in personnel and human resources management. United Kingdom: Elsevier JAI, 2008.
(3) FRIED, Bruce a Myron D. FOTTLER. Fundamentals of human resources in healthcare. Second edition. Washington, DC: Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), 2018. ISBN 1567939406.

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar