THESIS TOPICS: HRM and Labor Management Englishline

3rd year

THESIS TOPICS

 Human resource management practices in company X (or) in small companies (or) multinational
companies
 Employees’ opinion and satisfaction with the effectiveness of HR practices
 Employee job recruitment and selection: case study on company X
 Recruitment criteria in job advertisements (online recruitment/printed)
 Measures of the efficiency of recruitment strategies
 Employee job selection process: success vs failure in hiring decisions
 Job selection interview and CV screening
 Induction of new employees: organizational responsibilities in facilitating new employee integration
 Effectiveness of employee motivation strategies
 Career development strategy: case study/Organizational support for career development
 Assessing employees’ performance in manufacturing/service companies
 Employee performance appraisal: case study on company X
 Job performance and personality characteristics
 Payment system/rewards: case study on company X
 Job satisfaction and employee work attitude
 Job analysis: defining effective performance
 Assessing employees’ training needs: case study on company X
 Cost effective training: investments vs. benefits
 Evaluation of employee training and development
 Factors influencing employee productivity at work
 Time and methods studies used in production companies
 Measuring HR contributions within companies
 Stress management and work performance
 Managing stress and emotional welfare
 Job performance results and employee job satisfaction
 Work-life balance: organizational benefits and barriers

Recommended topics: the prediction power of the job selection, the job performance evaluation
and personality traits, the efficiency of the recruitment techniques, HRM in multinational
companies.

Students can also choose other topics. It is important for the final thesis to have a practical part
(empiric research). Before choosing the topic students are encouraged to read at least two reading
materials on that topic (book chapters, journal articles) to have a general idea about what they
want to research on.

monica.zaharie@yahoo.com, monica.zaharie@econ.ubbcluj.ro, room 251 (2nd floor)