Class Compensation and Career Management

Content Description:

1. Design and implementation of reward systems

• Rewards as a Strategic Human Resource Management system
• Reward System: Basic Concepts, Objectives, and Principles
• Structure and pillars of reward systems
• Intrinsic and extrinsic rewards
• Building a remuneration system: Perspectives, Architectures, and Salary Structures
• The company's positioning in the salary market
• Incentives' System: Make compensation more flexible
• Communicate the rewards system
• Measure the effectiveness of the Rewards System for Business and People
• Total Reward: An Integrating Concept

2. Career development and management systems

• HR Planning and Career Management
• Career management and development system: concepts, theories, general aspects, career typologies
• Meaning of career progression and career choices
• Salary Structures and Career Profiles
• Capitalize on High-Performance Employees
• Career Management on an individual perspective: take ownership for your own path

This unit is based on a diversified set of pedagogical methods and techniques, namely expository, reflective, interrogative, and active, using Flipped Learning and Experiential Learning methodologies.

It is proposed to carry out project work and the discussion and sharing of students' experiences, supported by the exposition of the subject and theoretical contents.

The unit's evaluation is carried out following the University's regulations.

The Distributed Continuous Evaluation is composed of:

• Active participation in the activities proposed in the classroom (20%)
• Project design with a Rewards and Career Management System (80%)

Final Assessment: Consists of a Written Exam Test covering all the contents taught during this unit and which has a weighting of 100% in the final average of the module.

The student is approved with a classification of not less than 10 values, ¿¿and if in none of the evaluations they have a result lower than 8.

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