6 ECTS credits
155 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 4003751FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.
The aim of this course is to teach students to reflect on topics related to Human Resources Management (HRM) and Organizational Behavior (OB) from an evidence-based perspective. In particular, the goals of this course are as follows:
- Students understand what evidence-based management is
- Students can analyze a problem from the HRM or OB domains using an evidence-based approach, taking into account multiple sources of evidence
- Students can formulate an evidence-based solution to a problem from the HRM or OB domains, taking into account the audience to which they are communicating
To gain a better understanding of these topics, students will learn what evidence-based management is, and they will see examples of how evidence-based management is used in practice. We will discuss how a problem can be analyzed, using an evidence-based approach. Students will form teams and will choose a problem to work on for their assignment. During the lectures, they will be able to work on their assignment and they will be able to ask the teaching team for feedback. However, students are expected to independently analyze the problem and search for information, meaning that the teaching team does not hand them this information but rather offers advice on information that students gathered themselves. Students will present their evidence-based solution to the problem in a paper and in a presentation. Moreover, they will adapt their communication strategy to the target audience of the presentation.
Next to their team assignment, students will be asked to choose a problem that they observed in the functioning/approach of their internship organization. In case that students have not yet started their internship, they are allowed to select a problem from the current HR domain. For the exam, students are required to individually write an executive summary of this problem and suggest an evidence-based solution. This evidence-based solution will be presented during an oral examination.
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- Students understand what evidence-based management is
- Students can independently analyze a problem from the HRM or OB domains using an evidence-based approach
- Students can independently search for and integrate information from various sources
- Students can independently formulate an evidence-based solution to a problem from the HRM or OB domain
- Students can adapt their communication to their target audience
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
SELF Practical Assignment determines 70% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- All elements of the course need to be completed, or the student receives an “absent” for the entire course.
- 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 adjustent factor. The group assignment (written report + oral presentation) counts for 70% of the total grade of the course. 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.
- 2nd exam period: if the student fails the course in the 1st exam period, they will need to redo those elements of the course on which they failed. The written report needs to be handed in by the first Monday of the 2nd exam period before 12:00 (noon). All elements of the course will need to be done individually in the 2nd exam period, which implies that there will be no peer-evaluation.
- Students can ask to do the assignment individually, rather than in a team. However, this will only be allowed in exceptional situations. Students need to submit a request, including a thorough motivation for their request, during the first lecture or within 2 weeks following the first lecture. The teaching team will evaluate the request and decide if this exception can be granted or not.
- An exemption for those elements of the course that the student passed in the previous year can be requested within two weeks of the first lecture of the teaching team.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Psychology: Afstudeerrichting arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie (only offered in Dutch)