Purpose of the Course

The purpose of this course is to introduce and equip students with knowledge on the principles and practices of human resource management

Expected Learning Outcomes of the Course

By the end of the course, learners should be able to:

i.               Discuss the principles and functions of human resource management

ii.             Explain the process of human resource forecasting and planning

iii.           Describe the processes of human resource recruitment, selection and placement

iv.           Explain the methods and procedures of human resource motivation, training and development, communication, discipline and termination

Course Content

Introduction to human resource management; Principles and functions of human resource management; History of human resources management, Human resource forecasting and planning; Staff recruitment, selection and placement; Motivation, communication, discipline and termination, retirement, redundancy and redeployment; Employee training and development; job satisfaction and performance management; Wage and salary administration; Employee welfare

Mode of Delivery

The course will be conducted through Lectures, Class discussions and Group discussions

Instructional Materials and/or Equipment

White board and white board markers, projection equipment

Course Assessment

C.A.T.s and Assignments                                           30 %

Final Examination                                                       70 %

                        Total                                                                100 %

Core Reading Materials for the Course 

Armstrong M. and Taylor S., (2014), Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 13^th ed., Kogan Page Ltd

Osibanjo O.A. and Adenike A.A., (2012), Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice, Pumark Nigeria Ltd

Rowley C. and Jackson K., (2011), Human Resource Management: The Key Concepts (eds.), Routledge

Recommended Reference Materials;

Mathis R.L. and Jackson J.H., (2010), Human Resource Management, 13^th Ed., South-Western Cengage Learning

Tyson S., (2006), Essentials of Human Resource Management, 5^th Ed., Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann

Senyucel Z., (2009), Managing the Human Resources in the 21^st Century, Ventus Publishing ApS

This paper surveys big data with highlighting the big data analytics in medicine and healthcare. Big data characteristics: value, volume, velocity, variety, veracity and variability are described. Big data analytics in medicine and healthcare covers integration and analysis of large amount of complex heterogeneous data such as various – omics data (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, interactomics, pharmacogenomics, diseasomics), biomedical data and electronic health records data. We underline the challenging issues about big data privacy and security. Regarding big data characteristics, some directions of using suitable and promising open-source distributed data processing software platform are given.

Credit Hours:

(3 Hours)                                                                

Lecture Hours: (45 Hours) 

Purpose of the course

The purpose of the course is to enable the students to acquire adequate knowledge on the planning and management of tourism projects. 

Expected Learning Outcomes of the Course

By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

a)      Determine project management as a concept in tourism.

b)      Establish the tourism project lifecycle.  

c)      Determine the estimation of project times and costs;

d)     Establish progress and performance measurement and evaluation in project management.

e)      Determine risk management in a tourism project.

Course content

Concept of project and project management; Evolution of project management; Contemporary project management; Project Lifecycle; Organization strategy and project selection; Organizational structure and culture in project management; Estimating tourism project times and costs; Estimating project times and costs; Managing risk in a tourism project; Scheduling resources and costs in a tourism project; Reducing project duration; Managing tourism project teams; Effective project management; Managing inter-organizational relations in project management; Progress and performance measurement and evaluation in project management; Project closure; Global trends in project management.

Mode of delivery                         

The course will be delivered through lectures, class presentations, face to face learning and tutorials.

Instructional Materials/ Equipment

The course will use LCD Projectors, white boards and resource persons for instruction.

Course evaluation and assessment

Term paper, field course report, sit-in continuous assessment test, seminar presentations and end of semester examination.

C.A.T.s and Assignments                                           40 %

Final Examination                                                       60 %

Total                                                                            100 %

Core Reading Materials for the Course 

Gray, C. & Larson, E. (2018). Project management: The managerial process. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

Heagney, J. (2016). Fundamentals of project management. New York: American Management Association.

Horine, G. (2017). Project management. Indianapolis, IN: Que.

Kerzner, H. (2017). Project management: A systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Recommended Reference materials

Kloppenborg, T. (2019). Contemporary project management: Organize, lead, plan, perform. Australia Boston, MA: Cengage.

Pinto, J. (2019). Project management: Achieving competitive advantage. New York, NY: Pearson.

Schwalbe, K. (2017). An introduction to project management: With a brief guide to Microsoft Project Professional 2016. Minneapolis, MN: Schwalbe Publishing.

Wysocki, R. (2019). Effective project management: Traditional, agile, hybrid, extreme. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.

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