HRM in Practice

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023332BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

For this course you have to meet certain enrolment requirements. For an overview of the enrolment requirements check https://www.vub.be/en/studying-vub/practical-info-for-students/study-guidance/study-path/individual-study-path#paragraph--id--71647 Students must have taken ‘Work and Organizational Psychology’ (not for students SCH 45 SP), before they can enroll in ‘HRM in de praktijk EN 'Evidence-based Human Resources Management’. + Enrolling in 'HRM in Practice AND Evidence-based Human Resources Management' means that you simultaneously take or have successfully passed ‘Principles of Human Resource Management'.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department

Experimental and Applied Psychology

Educational team

Johan De Bruyne
Sara De Gieter (course titular)
Joeri Hofmans
Tim Vantilborgh

Activities and contact hours

30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
60 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

During this course, students get familiar with the assessment center methodology. They (in group) develop their own assessment center exercise (e.g. analyze the context, define competences and indicators, defining the content of the exercise, evaluation forms). Finally, they test their exercise on classmates, observe and interview the participants and provide feedback. A real case from an organization is used for this assignment when possible.

During this course, students are obliged to participate in an annual two-day teambuilding seminar (together with the master students Industrial/Organizational psychology, with particpant fee) in order to become familiar with the exercises and with the role of instructor, which they have to fulfill in their master years.

Course material

Practical course material (Required) : Lecture notes from the student
Digital course material (Required) : Slides from the teacher/assistant, Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : Study material provided by the teacher

Additional info

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

After following this course, the student:

has insights in the use of competences (definition, identification) and can observe and report competences
understands the assessment center methodology and can independently develop and perform an in-basket exercise
can perform an in-take conversation
can perform a behavior-based selection interview
has gained knowledge on and experience in how to function in a team
has experienced how teambuilding exercises work and how a team is developed

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 30% of the final mark.
SELF Report determines 70% of the final mark.

Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Afname postbakoefening with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Note: Individueel cijfer

Within the SELF Report category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Handleiding postbakoefening with a relative weight of 70 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

Note: Groepscijfer

Additional info regarding evaluation

Participation in all assignments is required, if not 'absent' for the entire course.
Participation in the 2-day teambuilding seminar is mandatory. If the student doesn’t participate, he/she is ‘absent’ on this assignment, resulting in ‘absent’ for the entire course.
In previous years the price of the 2-day teambuilding seminar varied between 80-100 euros. The VUB offers possibilities for financial support: https://student.vub.be/studiefinanciering
To individually grade students on the group assignment, we will use peer evaluation (mandatory). This means that students will evaluate themselves and their team members on a number of criteria, resulting in an adjustment factor. This adjustment factor will be used to individualize the grade received by the team on the group assignment, by multiplying the team grade by each team member's adjustment factor. When a student does not complete the peer evaluation by the given deadline, the course instructor can decide to deduct the maximum amount of points possible with the peer evaluation for that student. The course instructor has the final say in the application of the peer evaluation, and can decide to increase, decrease, or ignore the adjustment factor, if the peer evaluation scores appear unreliable. Such decisions will only be taken in exceptional cases, and will always be based on clear arguments, analyses, and/or a discussion with the involved students.
When the student fails or was ‘absent’ for this course, he/she needs to make those assignments on which he/she failed or was absent in the first exam period. The assignments need to be made individually (instead of in group). In the second exam period, students cannot participate in a new teambuilding seminar, so they need to make an alternative assignment with regard to teambuilding. The deadline for the written assignments is the first monday of the second exam session before 12 AM.
Students can request an exemption for assignments in which they succeeded in the previous year, nut only during the first class or within the 2 weeks following this first class.
In exceptional cases, the group assignments can be made on an individual basis, but only after a thorough motivation and with an agreement of the teacher received during the first class or within the 2 weeks following this first class.
The use of generative AI is allowed for the assignment: Generative AI can be used in any way to complete the assignment. Any use of generative AI should be properly referenced (see APA7 guidelines).

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work & Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Psychology: Traject van 90 studiepunten met Profiel Arbeids- en Organisatiepsychologie (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)