ØAADM4000 Strategic Human Resource Management Course description

Svenn Jensen

ØASØK4100 Microeconomics

• Basics: Externalities, public goods, Pareto efficiency, market failure, optimal pollution.
• Static pollution (local air pollution)
• Environmental regulation with economic instruments (taxes, subsidies, cap-and-trade)
• Dynamic pollution (climate change)
• International environmental agreements
• Trade in goods and pollution
• Green innovation
• Green taxes and the double dividend
• Behavioral environmental economics

• The strategic and financial role of HRM
• Value creation, resources and competitiveness
• Strategic planning and implementation
• Contracts and forms of affiliation
• Organisation design and jobs
• Reward systems and motivation
• Internal and external labour markets
• Institutional framework conditions and corporate social responsibility
• International and comparative HRM
• Competence analysis and competence development

Varied forms of teaching will be used, with a combination of lectures, guest lectures, class discussions and student presentations.

Students must submit two written group assignments of up to twelve pages in total that must be approved and presented to the class before the student can take the exam. The presentation will take up to 25 minutes. If the assignment is not approved, the student will be given one opportunity to submit an improved version. The lecturer will inform students of deadlines for submission.

A supervised written five-hour exam is held at the end of the semester. Students who become ill or fail an exam are entitled to register for a resit/rescheduled exam in the course in accordance with the Regulations relating to Studies and Examinations at OsloMet.

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A grade scale with grades from A to E for pass and F for fail is used.

An external examiner will approve the exam questions and grade the exam papers together with an internal examiner.

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