Human Resources

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Choosing qualified, motivated, and loyal employees are one of the most important requirements for building a strong, successful company. This course will teach you everything about recruitment, management and development of human resources. You will learn how to find and select the most qualified and skilled employees for your business, as well as how to keep them motivated and committed.

Acquired skills

  • Human Resources Management
  • Recruitment in all types of companies
  • Employee Life Cycle and approved practices from its phases
  • Future of HR and recruitment with Artificial Intelligence

General information

Course term: 227.07. - 07.08.

Free seats: 9

Price: 800 €

Category: Bussiness & Marketing

Status: Available

Deadline: 30.04.2020

Description

Attracting, selecting, motivating, developing and retaining engaged employees is crucial for the success of organisations in today’s competitive environment. IT and Artificial intelligence grow its impact on HR too. Well established key HR metrics and the way we measure key processes and KPIs has become crucial for companies long term success.

This course will provide you with an overview of the key Human Resource Management (HRM) practices which contribute to the Organizational success and help you to both develop your technical expertise and knowledge and apply this in practical exercises to gain hands-on skill development.

Schedule

  • Day 1Introduction to HRM – understanding the importance of HRM in supporting modern organisations, role of HR
  • Day 2Effective Recruitment and Selection – employer branding, job analysis, targeted recruitment and selection techniques
  • Day 3Motivation and Reward – the role of employee motivation in organisational success and designing a total reward offer
  • Day 4Performance Management – planning, monitoring and reviewing an employee's work
  • Day 5Learning & Development – the ways in which individuals learn
  • Day 6Talent management, Exit management
  • Day 7Leadership and Management – the critical role of organisational leadership and the role the line manager plays in HRM
  • Day 8HRIS, HR Matrics
  • Day 9Necessary skills of HRM professional/manager: Project management, Facilitation, Problem solving, New situation solving. Not included in previous days: Audits, Employee Opinion Surveys, Labour Unions.
  • Day 10Future Challenges in HRM – investigation of the challenges facing HRM in the future including Artifical Intelligence and changing social demographics

Course is running: Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 14:00

Lecturer

Milan Mahovsky & Jan Lazar

CV

guest lecturer at the University of Economics in Prague

mBlue Owner & Creator of new staffing concepts

Bio

This course is conducted by two Lecturers, Milan Mahovsky and Jan Lazar.

Milan studied at the University of Amsterdam and Charles University in Prague. He has 20 years of commercial experience in an international recruitment company, corporate experience as a recruitment manager and Personnel manager in mobile operator O2 (Telefonica). For the past 12 years was running his own HR consulting company and has lectured in Prague school of economics and Anglo-American University.

Milan is very practically oriented with a strong focus on HR to connection business goals. He has unique knowledge of Recruitment, IT in HR and controlling.


Jan Lazar is Interim/HR Project manager, consultant and mediator.

Jan Lazar LinkedIn profile

He is in the HR business already for more than 20 years. He acted in managerial positions in global companies as SAB Miller, DHL or Magna within the Czech Republic and abroad. As an Interim manager, he acted in both local and regional (EMEA) positions within various industries (Production incl. Automotive, IT, Medical, Logistics & Services).

He graduated at the University of Economics Prague. He is a Certified Coach (Koučing centrum, Marilyn Atkinson), Certified Mediator (Czech Association of Mediatorship) and Certified Interim Manager (Czech Association of Interim Management - CAIM). Since 2019 he is also CAIM Board member.

He is focused mainly on optimization and set up of personal processes, interim/crisis management and facilitation of workshops.

Course outline

Teaching Methods

Lectures, presentations, in-class group discussions, role-plays and exercises, feedback, case studies, homework readings and assignments. You can also look forward to having the chance to consult your ideas or questions with HRM professionals as guest speakers.

Literature

  • Brewster, C., Houldsworth, E., Sparrow, P., and Vernon, G. (2016a) International Human Resource Management. 4th Edition. London: CIPD.
  • Crawshaw, J.R., Budhwar, P., and Davis, A. (2017) Human Resource Management: Strategic and International Perspectives. 2nd Edition. London: Sage.
  • Torrington, D., Hall, L., Taylor, S., and Atkinson, C. (2017) Human Resource Management. 10th Edition. Harlow: Pearson.
  • Selected journal articles, personality tests, practitioner sources (list will be specified during the classes)

Credits

You will receive an official Certificate of Attendance upon completion of your course. Please inform the organizing staff if you require any extra supplements, such as Transcript of Records. The student is eligible to receive up to 5 ECTS credits, however please follow the instructions here and consult the acknowledgment process with your university in advance.

Assessments

  • attendance in class 15%
  • team assignment 40%
  • individual assignment 35%
  • exam 10%

Course time total 125 hours

  1. Total time of in-class work = 50hours
  2. Preliminary assignment = 10hours
  3. Preparation = 65hours

Price

Course fee includes the course itself, application fee, study materials, Prague public transportation ticket for 2 weeks, afternoon/evening social activities and events, welcome drink and goodbye graduation party. Other expenses, such as meals, accommodation, insurance, personal expenses, extra activities (such as trips outside of town over the weekend and entrance fees), and required equipment (i.e. pencils, paper for illustrations) are not included in the price.

Please note, after the 30th of April 2020 there will be a late enrollment fee charged in the amount of 50EUR on top of the course fee. COVID-19 Cancellation fee - in case the courses will be cancelled without an alternative course or the Summer school program will not be happening due to the lasting Coronavirus restrictions in your country or in the Czech Republic, we will be refunding all amount except for only 40EUR.

Terms and Conditions - Cancellation fees

Costs of living in Prague

Accommodation

For accommodation options, please visit the dedicated page

*Program/Course Outline is subject to change.

Prerequisites

  • B1 CEF absolute minimum, B2 and above strongly recommended.
  • A laptop will be needed.