Human Resource Management (HRM) Courses

HRM401 Human Resource Management

This course serves as an introduction to HRM students who plan to specialize and learn advanced level in the field. This course is focused on people at work.
Over the years a variety of management policies, practices, and decisions have been tried to ensure that employees can achieve the organization’s objectives.
This HRM course would expose the students to learn and understand the Human Resource basic functions and processes starting from recruitment through development
and the separation of employees from the corporations. Prerequisite: MGT201

HRM430 Recruitment and Selection

Techniques This module is based on academic theory and research on selection and recruitment practices for both Human resources students and practitioners.
The course explains different recruitment techniques and the key features of common selection methods along with the criteria of evaluating these methods.
Nature of performance is discussed to analyze jobs and their measures leading to description of the main stages in process of job selection. The validity
of these selection methods is covered including the examination of psychological processes that take place within selection. Finally, issues associated
with fairness in selection and assessments are considered. The focus of the module is on academic research and not on presenting a prescriptive model of
evidence-based method of selection. A good selection system depends upon the changing nature of work, the context in which selection takes place and the
organization’s procedures and policies. Therefore, organizations must be flexible enough to embrace changes and adapt to the environment in which it
operates to make appropriate firm-specific selection decisions. Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM445 Occupational Health and Safety
The course discusses key technical, political, management and personal issues relating to health and safety in the workplace, the role and importance of effective health and safety management to business, government, organized labor, individual employees and society, key legal rights and responsibilities of employees and employers with respect to health and safety issues in the workplace. In addition, positive health and safety initiatives made by proactive employers are also examined. Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM451 Industrial Relations Management
The course is centered on management of labor relations. Socio-political factors affecting labor relations, principles and strategies of negotiation, trade unionism, its benefits and drawbacks, as well as means of evaluating union demands are some of the topics discussed in this course.
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM 452 Organizational Analysis and Research
The module helps students understand organizational theories in a historical context and explains the different level of analysis used in organizational research. The course also provides an overview of the research paradigms applied in the fields of organizational behavior and occupational psychology, enabling individuals to develop their critical thinking skills when analyzing organizational issues. The students will also learn the different forms of research, the steps involved in it and the paradigms used in social sciences research.
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM 453 Life Career Development
The module aims to help individuals understand the importance of career development in an employment and social context and their influences on career choice and career development. The module brings with it stocks of knowledge related to various career models and theories available, to critique and evaluate their usefulness and application in making appropriate career decisions in a life space available to an individual. A variety of career
interventions are discussed including career guidance and career counseling.
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM455 Executive Leadership
This course provides a comprehensive review of current theories and best practices to students, which enables to understand the role of Effective Leadership in Building Successful Corporate Culture. The students will comprehend the well known fact that the sources of competition today have more to do with the ways one manages people and the ways those people interact. Unlike patent, technology and other competencies, it is the only unique value proposition that cannot be copied. It also provides opportunities for leadership research projects.
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM456 Training and Development
The aims of this module are to help students assess influence of organizational strategy on the role and practice of training and development. The course enables students to identify training needs of individuals and organizations, select training methods and consider their influence on trainee development and training transfer to work place. The course provides for a critical review of the techniques available for the evaluation of training and to consider their role in practice. The significance of resource based strategies for training and development are used to provide a context for considering different training and development techniques
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM457 HR and Information System
The collection and use of information has long been recognized as a potential source of value addition to organizations. Human Resource Management Information is pivotal to the strategic planning and subsequent success of the organization. Thus, the subject focuses on the primary activities performed by the human resources (HR) function and how Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) can be developed to support these activities.

HRIS is a cross-disciplinary subject and encompasses two critical areas, namely, Human Resource Management (HRM) and Information Technology/Systems (IT/IS). With the emergence of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System that seamlessly integrates various business modules within the information architecture of any business enterprise, HRIS has become a critical area of attention for management professionals. Undertaking this course will allow the students to build on, and expand, their knowledge of HRIS from a theoretical and a practical perspective. In addition, the HRIS assessment items expose students to a variety of HRIS issues and subsequent application problems.
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM 458 Leading the Change Process
The course is concerned with the tasks of leading the change process in organizations. Creating a shared changed vision, fostering an understanding of the change process, and leading the change transition are important ingredients of the course. Other topics include encouraging an innovative organizational culture, managing growth and decline and corporate restructuring..
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

HRM462 Performance and Compensation Management
The performance of an organization depends on the performance of its people. Everything in an organization gets done by its people. A successful organization is one in which competent people perform at their best and where employees are rewarded according to their work and worth. The course elaborates on the quantum transformation that has occurred in Human Resource Management in the 21st century, how HR strategies impact organizational performance and why performance and compensation management is so critical for organizations. This course will prepare students to become effective managers of human capital by teaching them how to develop, motivate and reward a competent team and maximizing its performance.
Prerequisites: MGT201, HRM401

Management Courses

MGT201 Principles of Management

This course focuses on basic managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. It is specially designed to orient students
with modern management practices essential for successful management of large organizations having a diverse work force and operating in the changing global,
political, economic, social and technological scenarios.

MGT211 Business Communication

The course focuses on the theory and practice of effective communication techniques in business environments. It polishes verbal and non-verbal communication
skills for effective participation in business meetings and other activities. It prepares students to write formal business reports and to add value to
previous work through further library research and fieldwork.

MGT221 Organizational Behavior

This course inculcates a positive approach in managing productive relationships with peers, superiors and subordinates by examining teams, individuals
and networks in a business environment. Topics such as group culture, individual motivation and behavior, collective and individual performance, decision
making, interpersonal communication, small group behavior and inter-group conflict are extensively covered. This course exposes students to frameworks for
diagnosing and dealing with problems in organizational settings.

MGT301 Ethics in a Corporate Society

The course examines the importance of ethics in the corporate society. It highlights the need to draw an analytical distinction between ethics and
morality, good and bad, right and wrong so as to develop a criterion of judgment for socially responsive behavior. This course examines the relationship
between value judgment and attitude formation, informed by the teleology of various ethical theories. Through this course the ethical relevance of such
values like honesty, justice, fairness and equity in relation to the dynamics of corporate society will be highlighted. Distinction will be made between
personality ethics and character ethics to draw the contours of corporate behavior. Special attention will be paid to the legislative nature of
intentionality as the foundation of the principles of ethics. Fundamentals of lessons of Islamic society and those of all other religions are also included.
Prerequisites: MGT201, ACC301, MKT201

MGT311 Production and Operations Management

This course includes design, planning, and control of firms’ capabilities and resources. The coursework is intended to strengthen students’ conceptual
understanding and skills in the areas of operations, strategy and technology, forecasting, capacity and materials management, and design of productive
systems. Prerequisites: MGT201, MKT201, FIN201

MGT400 Management Theory and Practice

The course presents an overview of the basic theoretical concepts in the field of management. It also highlights the linkage between management theory
and management practice. Various implications of the theoretical concepts will be discussed. The course will provide an opportunity to evaluate various
selected theoretical concepts and their application to business organizations.

MGT401 Small Business Management

This interdisciplinary course emphasizes the importance of small businesses in the economy. The course deals with the adoption of managerial concepts
to small business, essentials of business startup, determinants of choice of business capital, location, structure, size, etc. It aims at motivating
enterprising students to choose small business at entry stages of their careers, contribute to economic growth and setup their own enterprise later on.
Prerequisites: MGT201, MKT201, FIN201

MGT411 Comparative Management

The purpose of teaching Comparative Management is to provide students with comprehensive knowledge of various management systems/models practiced by
managers in different countries, with the aim of preparing them to manage international organizations successfully. The course includes the study of
various systems/models and cross cultural issues such as the Japanese Managerial System, the western model, the (Ex-) socialist countries models, the
developing countries models, and the Islamic Countries Models as well as the Gulf Countries Models. Prerequisites: MGT201, MKT201, MGT221

MGT421 Entrepreneurship

The objectives of this course are: To appreciate the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth and thereby personal career growth of business managers.
To acquaint the students with the virtues of entrepreneurship for the society so as to enable them to consider it as one of the early or late career options.
The course imparts knowledge about entrepreneurial process, business lifecycle, principle concepts and general guidelines for establishing a new business
enterprise at a small or large scale in a dynamic business environment. Prerequisites: MGT201, FIN201,MKT201

MGT 430 Managerial Policy

This is an advanced management course in strategic planning, policy formulation and implementation that develops an integrated organizational viewpoint by
inter-relating the functional areas of finance, marketing, production, human resource and the general business environment. As a course in business
statesmanship and leadership, it intensively uses case studies to develop class discussions on real life situations.
Prerequisites: MGT201, MGT211, MGT221, FIN201, MKT201, HRM401, ECO103, ECO113.