Personnel Economics (6 cr)

Code:
31C00800
Field:
Microeconomics
Target:
Bachelor's students
Organiser:
Aalto University
Instructor:
Antti Kauhanen
Period:
Period 5
Format:
Lecture
Method:
Contact teaching
Venue:
Otaniemi campus
Enrollment:

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The course introduces economic approach to human resource management. Topics of the course include: recruitment, personnel development, job design, career development, performance measurement, and performance-related pay. The topics are studied with simple models. Analysis of real-world applications and decision problems are emphasized.

The objective of the course is to familiarize student with economic analysis of central topics in human resource management. The student will learn to use tools and concepts of economics to analyze human resource management decision problems.