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Personnel Management (5 cr)

Code: SOSAJO20-3026

General information


Enrollment
17.04.2023 - 20.04.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
08.01.2024 - 01.03.2024
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 cr
Local portion
5 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact learning
Unit
SeAMK Social Services and Elderly Care
Campus
SeAMK Seinäjoki, Kampustalo
Teaching languages
Finnish
Degree programmes
Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
Arja Haapaharju
Course
SOSAJO20

Evaluation scale

1-5

Objective

Students learn basic principles of personnel management and the related legislation in social welfare field. Students become aware of the connections between management and wellbeing at work and they learn to plan and implement practices to promote cooperation and sustainable development. Students become familiar with areas of management, gain competence in working as supervisors. Students know how to use the personnel's expertise and competence in running and developing the organization. Students gain competence in personnel planning. Students have assimilated the idea of self-management and are motivated to develop their work.

Content

- personnel management principles and legislation
- working as a immediate supervisor and organization of daily routines
- making use of the personnel's competence and expertise
- wellbeing at work, supervision of work, development discussions between managers and employees, mentoring
- personnel planning, recruitment and orientation of personnel
-developing one's work, self-management

Materials

Student chooses the literatures taking into account the themes of the course. The literature must be both in finish and in foreigner language.

Teaching methods

Lectures, assignments, group work, guided exercises, visitors

Exam schedules

At the end of the course, the student writes a summary of their learning

Completion alternatives

Online course

Student workload

133 hours, which consists of contact teaching, assignments and exercises

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students
- are able to gesture the wholeness of personnel management
- are aware of importance of the personnel plan from the perspective of organizations functions
- are able to recognize connections between personnel management and wellbeing at work.
- indicate interrest towards personnel management issues.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The students
- are able to explain and implement different processes of personnel management
- reflect their individual values and work orientations as an employee and as a supervisor.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The students
- are able to describe and assess the influences of personnel management processes
- indicate commitment and readiness in different items of personnel management.

Qualifications

most part of the basic studies of the degree programme, the course Interaction in Psychosocial Work, practical training (minimum 10 cr)

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