COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ENGIN BAĞIŞ ÖZTÜRK

Offered to

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to advance students' understanding of human resource management, specifically the workforce planning aspect. This course puts forward a conceptual roadmap for human resource planning and provides analysis and techniques required to handle workforce planning. Through this road map and analysis, this course provides students with specialization needs on developing fair HR systems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Sparkman, R. (2018). Strategic Workforce Planning: Developing Optimized Talent Strategies for Future Growth. Kogan Page Publishers.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Online Discussion Groups
3. Term Project and Presentations

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm:
Midterm will be comprised of forum disscussions on the online education platform. Online forums are important places to discuss our course topics. By the use of forums during the course, students are expected to criticize particular topics, comment on their colleagues' ideas, and bring on new evidence to extend their ideas. This will help students to improve their online communication skills and make students aware of different perspectives of particular topics. Contribution to the each forum discussion will be monitored and graded.

Quiz:
Quizzes will be composed of several assignments. Each assignment will be explained during our lectures and also announced on the online education platform. Assignments can cover basic reporting, data analysis, and as well as conducting online interviews with HR professionals. Each assignment will be graded and average of all assignments will be used in the assessment method.

Term Project:
Depending on students' skills, two types of term projects can be selected. Each student will be required to choose only one type of term project. While one project is related with conducting a literature review, the other term project is related with developing a basic HR information tool. Each term project will be carefully examined and graded.

Assessment Criteria

1. Students will do job analysis and job descriptions.
2. They will develop a job evaluation system, and evaluate the jobs with a systematic method.
3. They will group and classify jobs in a job grade scale to reach pay level.
4. They will relate job requirements and job specifications to relevant HR functions.
5. Students will apply the process of forecasting staff requirements.
6. They will prepare an overhead budget for specific HR activities.
7. Students will also develop an organization-wide head-count budget.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Academic integrity is to demonstrate responsbile and honest behaviors and follow ethical principles in academia. All students should respect the intellectual property rights of others. Specifically every student should avoid plagiarism. All types of plagiarism are serious and violate academic integrity policy.
To understand and prevent plagiarism, please see the following link: https://www.plagiarism.org/understanding-plagiarism. During our lectures, a variety of information will be provided but if you have any problems you can ask me.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assistant Professor Engin Bağış Öztürk, engin.ozturk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Due to Covid-19 precautions, please send an e-mail to get an online appointment.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes