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

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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.
INSURANCE OPERATIONS
TECHNIQUES
Lecturer to be appointed
Aims
The course aims to provide students with
a basic knowledge of the technical features
related to the main insurance (life
and indemnity) and retirement (three pillars)
products.
Contents
Social security program in Italy. Voluntary
and mandatory regimes;
Pension funds: types and features;
Life insurance policies:
- Traditional policies;
- Indexed policies;
- unit linked and index linked policies.
Indemnity insurance policies:
- material indemnity policies;
- personal indemnity policies;
- wealth indemnity policies;
- liability insurance policies.
Pre-requisites
The courses of ‘Financial instruments’
and ‘Corporate finance’ are preparatory.
The contents of ‘Bank and Insurance
Contracts’ and ‘Actuarial Mathematics’
are pre-requisites for course attendance
and final exam.