PSY7201 Human Resource Management and Psychology

Management of people is a fundamental issue and it is becoming increasingly challenging. There is a widespread sense across the world that there is not enough well-trained human resource, at least not in the numbers required. Yet employees are very important assets of an organization. They are the human capital to be invested in (Alhas, 2005). The growth and productivity of any organization are realizable when such human capital is well managed. The challenge is that organizations are becoming more and more dynamic, and the human beings therein are equally becoming more and more complex due to socio-economic and political demands. Arguably, when the proper quantity and quality of human resources is well managed, it can manipulate other resources towards realization of organizational goals and objectives. Therefore, human resource management has become a crucial subject of study to harmonize dynamic organizations and complex human beings, to achieve optimum productivity.

Objectives

• To equip students with basic theories and practices of human resource management.
• To develop a human resource management insight in the students, thereby improving their human resource management skills.
• To produce human resource managers who can competently perform human resource management tasks at any level of an organization in the Uganda’s organizational system and beyond.
• To equip the students with knowledge and skills of managing complex human beings in dynamic organizations.

Learning outcomes
Successful completion of this course should result in a candidate who is competent in:

• Applying theories of human resource management in managing personnel in institutions
• sourcing the right personnel for the right duties and responsibilities
• conflict management in institutions 
• integrating classroom knowledge and practice in organizations.