•GUIDA ECONOMIA 07-08 - Università degli studi di Udine

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and international contexts and the related
financial, political and social consequences.
Contents
The origin of insurance contracts and
their evolution in the modern age; marine
insurance; the first life insurance policies;
the birth of English insurance companies;
the development of insurance
during industrialization; friendly societies;
insurance in pre-unification States;
general insurance and the Riunione Adriatica
di Sicurtà; the Italian insurance market
in the second half of the XIX century;
the spread of social insurance during the
Age of Giolitti; INA; the transformation
of Italian national insurance during the
20s; creation of INAIL and INPS; pension
reforms in the 50s and the 60s; institution
of the national health service.
Bibliography
Class notes and recommended readings.
HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT 2
Prof.ssa Francesca Visintin
Contents
The course is made up of two main parts.
The first, which is mostly theoretical,
examines the fundamentals of human
resource management, with a particular
focus on the new strategic positioning of
the function within the organization.
The goal of the second part is to endow
the students with the knowledge and
mastering of the most important techniques
of human resource management
and with the understanding of the centrality
of human capital within the company
of the 21 st century.
Introduction
Personnel management or human
resource management?
Human resource management: theoretical
developments of the past 20 years.
The origins and the distinct characteristics
of the function. HR today and the current
debate.
(Ch 1, BEARDWELL, GOLDEN, 1997).
The strategic role of human resource management
The changing operational context for
human resource management and the
HR Scorecard. Examples. (Ch. 1 and 3,
DESSLER, 2005).
People
Human resource management planning,
recruiting and selection. The labour market.
(Ch. 4 and 6, COSTA, GIANECCHINI,
2005; other material available on the webpage).
Relations
Collective and individual contracts. The
meaning of commitment. (Ch. 7, COSTA,
GIANECCHINI, 2005; Ch. 15, DESSLER,
2005; other materials available on the
webpage).
Career management (Ch. 10, DESSLER,
2005).
Performance
Politics of re-engineering, training and
the management of performance (Ch 9,
10 and 11, COSTA, GIANECCHINI, 2005).
Assessment and participation
Assessing jobs, people and performance.
Compensation. Participation and empowerment.
Diversity management (Ch 12,
13, 14 e 15, COSTA, GIANECCHINI, 2005).
Bibliography
- I. BEARDWELL, L. GOLDEN, Human
Resource Management, a Contemporary
Perspective, Pitman, 1997.
- G. COSTA, M. GIANECCHINI, Risorse
umane. Persone, relazioni e valore,
McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2005.
- G. DESSLER, Human Resource Management,
International edition, Pearson,
2005.
Exam
The exam is written.