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CM SU1C - International Human Resource Management

Faculty
Aysar Philip Sussan, Bethune Cookman University

Course Coordinator
ISUP Secretariat

Prerequisite/progression of the course

None.

Course content, structure and teaching

This course focuses on the international aspects of human resource management and provides students with practical and theoretical information on employee performance appraisal, training and development, compensation, structures, policies, and strategies for managing their employees at every level of the multinational enterprises (MNEs).

Main topics:

  • International Human Resource Management
  • Cross-Border Alliances
  • Staffing International Operations
  • Recruiting And Selecting Staff for International Assignments
  • International Training and Development
  • International Compensation
  • IHRM in Host-Country Context
  • Performance Management
  • IHRM Challenges and the Future
Learning Objectives

This course will enable the student to develop an awareness of the impact of international forces on the firm’s future and establishing and examine the application of human resource management practices and techniques in recruiting, and managing expatriate employees placed on assignment in a foreign host country. Also, to understand the impact of globalization on human resource management as companies continue to expand into industrialized, emerging, and third world economies.

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises, class discussions.

Examination

Voluntary feedback assignment: one short oral presentation given during the course.

Final exam: Project/home assignment (written individually), 15 A4 pages.

Re-take exam: Project/home assignment (written individually), 15 A4 pages.

Recommended literature

Dowlding, Festing, and Engle (2009) International Human Resource Management. Fifth Edition. Thomson South-Western Publishers. ISBN: 9-780324-58034-1.


Last updated by ISUP Secretariat 28/01/2010