The Nature of Human Relations. The study of individual behavior. Behavior of Groups and Productivity Practices. Managing Technological Change. Managing in Knowledge-based Futures. Fundamentals of Leadership. HRM Skills of a Leader: Developing, Appraising and Rewarding Staff. Managing Performance: Corporate, Group and Individual. Productivity Innovation, Creativity and Inventive Culture. Internationalization and HRM. Managing Industrial Relations. Personal Career Development. Topical HRM Issues.
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Taken in: AY 19/20 Sem 1
Grade: SCase Study: Workplace & Organisation (40%)
Finals (60%)I would recommend taking this mod to clear your GER-BM requirement as well as if you plan to use your S/U on this. As someone who does not really like presentations, this course only requires a part of the group to do the presentation, not all members are needed. In our batch, the whole cohort was split into 4 groups of 29 people. We get to choose our group, so you can take this module together with your friends. The grading includes 2 case studies, 1 on workplace and another on organisation. We are required to submit a report and do a presentation for the workplace case study, but only a report is required for the organisation case study. It is totally up to your team to split the work and there is no specific format for the report. He does not grade us on our presentation skills, instead, he focuses on the content and the logical presenting of the content only. My team split ourselves into 2, the workplace group met up twice (once for doing the report, once for doing the presentation slides) and the organisation group met up once to do the report. I was in the organisation group. The bulk of the report was done within 2 hours of meeting up because most of us did our preparation before the meeting. After the meeting, we just had to cut the words to meet the 1500 word limit, as well as do some minor editing. Only a few people took the initiative to do this. It also too time-consuming if we had to seek everyone’s approval before moving ahead with the editing. All lectures are recorded and there is honestly no need to attend them hahah, except for maybe the last lecture, where he may give hints during the review lecture. The hints given are very very straightforward as to what kind of essay questions will come out for the finals. You can also look up PYPs to see the type of questions he likes to set, he sometimes will repeat questions from past years, just with different phrasing.
Overall, this module is very manageable, the only possible stressful part is if no one in your team takes the initiative or if you are unlucky to get freeloaders (if this does happen, raise it up to the lecturer, he will investigate). Apart from that, even though the content is heavy, I just did selective studying based on the hints in his review lecture and could do every single essay question. I S/U-ed it in the end because the final exam was so easy and I felt that the bell curve would be very steep.
This review was reposted with the kind permission of Awesome NTU CBC Student. Originally published at https://awesomentucbcstudent.blogspot.com/2019/12/ay1920-y2s1-review.html
July 18, 2021
