Università Roma Tre

People are fundamental resources in the contemporary competitive context, for their ability to generate and share knowledge, forge relationships, collaborate to innovate. It is necessary for business organizations to be able to adopt appropriate personnel management policies. Accordingly, this course is able to outline the challenges of personnel management under a twofold perspective, both theoretical and empirical. In particular, the course aims to: a) frame the discipline from a theoretical point of view, highlighting its historical and conceptual roots and recent developments; b) illustrate the contents of the main activities in which the personnel policies are articulated and the essential characteristics of the operating tools used in company practice for their realization; c) deepen the concrete problems in which personnel management needs are articulated in order to illustrate the variety of possible situations and the criteria on which to make choices.
Personnel management has emerged with the aim of intervening on people to orient their behavior trying to align them with organizational requirements and strategic objectives. The course includes the development of a monographic module aimed at illustrating the typical aspects of organizational behavior. The module is developed, therefore, by examining the main conceptual categories drawn from the psychological and sociological sciences for the study of human behavior in organizations. The module will deal with, among others, the concepts of group, culture, leadership, communication, gender and organizational well-being and some related issues that are increasingly central to the management of dynamics within the current organizational contexts.