NUS Business School

Department of Management and Organisation

HR2002: Human Capital in Organisations Semester 2, 2016/17
Lecturer: Lowe Joo Yong (jooyong@nus.edu.sg)

Week Date Lecture Topics Main Readings

1 10 Jan Course overview Nil
Parker, B. (2005). An introduction to Globalisation.
The effects of
2 17 Jan Introduction to Globalisation and business (ch. 1, pp. 126).
globalisation
London: Sage Publications.
Jones, G, (2012). Organisational transformations: Birth,
Organisational growth, decline, and death. Organisational theory, design,
3 24Jan
transformations and change (7th ed., ch. 11, pp. 327355). Pearson
International Edition.
Kates, A & Galbraith, J. (2007), Fundamentals of
Organisational
4 31 Jan Organisation Design. Designing Your Organisation, (ch.1,
structure and culture
pp.1-26) John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Lim, G.S., Mathis, R.L. & Jackson, J.H. (2010).
Union/Management Relations. Human Resource
5 7 Feb Industrial relations
Management, An Asia Edition (ch. 17, pp. 552-583). Cengage
Learning.
6* 14 Feb Project research week Nil
Recess Week
Riggio, R. E. & Reichard, R. J. (2008). The emotional and
social intelligences of effective leadership: An emotional and
Leadership social skill approach. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23
7 28 Feb
intelligences (2), 169-185.
Walesh, S (2012). The Leader within you: Let it come out!
Leadership and Management in Engineering, 12(1), 37-38.
Turner, Jonathan H. (2013) Symbolic Interactionist Theory of
Role identities and
8 6 Mar Identity. Contemporary Sociological Theory Ch 16. Pp 331-
workplace interactions
355. Sage publications.
Kendall, D (2011) Socialization. Sociology in Our Times: The
9 13 Mar The self essentials (8th ed., ch. 3, pp. 74-103). Wadsworth, Cengage
Learning.
Fernandes, C. R., & Polzer, J. T. (2013). Diversity in groups. In
Diversity at the R. Scott & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging trends in the social and
10 20 Mar
workplace behavioral sciences: An interdisciplinary, searchable, and
linkable resource (pp. 1-14). Wiley.
Wen, Hengfu (2014). The nature, characteristics and ten
11 27 Mar Learning strategies of learning organisations. International Journal of
Educational Management. Vol. 28 No. 3 pp 289-298.
Kopelman, S., Feldman, E., McDaniel, D. & Hall, D. (2012)
Mindfully negotiating a career with a heart. Organisational
Dynamics, 41, 163-171.
12 4 Apr Understanding careers
Yehuda Baruch (2004), Transforming careers: from linear to
multidirectional career paths, Career Development
International (Vol 9 No.1), Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
13 11 Apr Revision Nil

*No lecture/tutorial
Lectures: LT16, Tuesdays, 09:00-10:00 or 13:00-14:00
Tutorials start in Week 3