Academic year/semester: 2026/27/1

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 1
Seminarium:0
Practice: 2
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: -

Prerequisites: Basics of management

Course Leader: Dr. habil. Ágnes Szeghegyi

Faculty: Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management, 1084 Budapest, Tavaszmező utca 17.

Course Description:
The role of human resources in companies and in the economy has increased as a result of IT, technological and social developments. The economic structure has undergone a major transformation. Today\\\'s society is a post-industrial society, its economy is a knowledge-based economy, the transforming resource is information, computers and data transmission equipment, the strategic resource is knowledge, and the characteristic technology is intellectual technology. The success of an organisation depends on the effective use and development of its intellectual capital. The subject analyses the functional elements and issues of human resource management in the context of the macro- and microeconomic environment, explores their interrelationships and examines their relationship and interaction with other corporate functional units.

Competences:
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Topics:
1. Introduction
2. The concept of management, its tasks, management functions
3. Post-industrial society, knowledge economy
4. Human resource management model, characteristics of human resources
5. Human resource planning, human resource strategies
6. Job description, job analysis, job design, job evaluation
7. Subjectivity of knowledge, decisions, judgements
8. Labour supply: recruitment and selection
9. Incentive management, incentive schemes
10. Performance appraisal, performance management
11. Career management: training and development, career planning, career paths
12. Conflicts, conflict management
13. Workplace conflicts
14. The role of human resources management in managing workplace conflict

Assessment: Practice tasks

Exam Types:

practice mark

Compulsory bibliography: -

Recommended bibliography: 1. G. T. Milkovich, F. W. Glueck: Personnel/Human Resource Management. A Diagnostic Approach. Business Publications Inc., Texas, 1995 2. Szeghegyi, Á., Szoboszlai, V., Velencei, J.:Informal Post-Experiential Learning ACTA POLYTECHNICA HUNGARICA 11:(4) pp. 241-252. (2014) 3. Szeghegyi, Á., Velencei, J.:Knowledge Platforms in Knowledge Ecology - Web of β-Learners In: Filipovic D, Urnaut A G (szerk.) Economic and Social Development: Book of Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference: Challenges of the Modern World - Contemporary Economy and Globalization. Konferencia helye, ideje: Paris, Franciaország, 2013.04.05 Paris: Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency, 2013. p.&.(ISBN:978-961-6825-73-3

Additional bibliography: -

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