PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

with Professor Ivica Vrančić

Module Objectives

Any CEO or Senior Manager would claim: “People are the most valuable asset!”, if you ask them about the most important essence of today business success. But, how do they actually manage, control, maintain and develop the people and organization in line with the statement? What is the role of today’s managers in people agenda within their organizations? What are the main characteristics of today HRM function, how it should contribute to the business and people management routines? The students will be participating the course in order to understand relations between people agenda, Human Capital, and business success, and management roles and accountabilities within that frame. To clarify differences and interconnections between Human Resources function and People Management routines. They will also learn the importance and role of managers from any organizational level as people managers and support they should ask/get from HRM function. Hopefully, the participants will develop some of crucial skills that they need to be good people managers.

Learning outcomes

Key learning outcomes are:

• Understand concept of Human Capital and people agenda and its reflections to business
• Learn about human nature to understand potential consequences within organization and business agenda
• Acquire, clarify and understand People Management skills, roles and accountabilities and its importance in organizational dynamics and business success
• Understand structure, roles and responsibilities of today’s Human Resources function and its position in business dynamics
• Clarify interconnections and differences between Human Resources Management and People Management
• Build up and develop some crucial People Management skills