Economia del personale - ENG

PERSONNEL ECONOMICS

Dott.ssa Carmen Aina
Course Code: EC0016
Subject code: Secs –P/02
8 ECTS – 64 hours
Location: Novara

Educational aims

The objective of the course is to analyse the economic principles that govern employment relations and company choices in the area of human capital, provision of incentives, careers, bonuses and personnel recruitment that companies implement in the new socio-economic context represented by a knowledge-based society. The course is designed to provide students with the knowledge for working with and managing personnel and human resources in all the various company phases.
The course is divided into four sections. The first section aims to provide an economic approach about the fundamental information useful in understanding the logic behind managing and developing personnel within the companies, while section II an analysis of the wage structure and incentive pay. The third section is based on team work. Finally, the last section is based on company case studies and lectures by experts from the business world as well as on computer laboratory in which students will apply concepts learned during the lectures (sections I and II).
The course itself is dynamic and requires the active participation of the students.

Content of the course

Section I:
-    theories of coordination and motivation (MR chap. 5 and 6);
-    coordination, motivation, and management (MR chap. 10, 11, 12 and13).

Section II:
-    Compensating wage differentials (Borjas: chap. 5);
-    wage structure (Borjas: chap. 7);
-    Incentive pay (Borjas: chap. 11).
Section III:
-    Team work on papers related to section II

Section IV:
-    lectures by experts;
-    training lab classes, where computers and dedicated software will be applied to conduct simple, but practical examples on the topics discussed during the section I and II.


Prerequisites

None


Course Texts

Section I:
- P. Milgron and J. Roberts, Economics, Organization and Management, Prentice Hall, ed. 1992. This book is available in the library: I II
Section II:
- G. Borjas, Labor Economics, McGraw Hill, 2012.

Section III:
- Papers provided by the professor.

Section IV:
- lectures and case studies provided by the professor and posted on the moodle course website;
- data sets provided by the professor.

Further information can be found in the web page of the course at the URL:
">https://eco.dir.unipmn.it/

Teaching methods

Section I and II:
- lectures

Section III:
- presentations by students.

Section IV:
- invited speakers;
- training lab classes.


Examination

For students who attend classes the final course grade is composed by:
-    attendance of case studies (5%), training lab classes (15%) and team work (30%) counts 50%;
-    written examination on section I and II (60 minutes) counts 50%;

For students who do NOT attend classes:
-    contact the professor by e-mail: carmen.aina@eco.unipmn.it