Master of Science in Human resource management and organisational behaviour (Doctoral Programme)

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-1

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Question what is distinctive about “science”
2. Identify the different types of management research
3. Distinguish the different philosophical assumptions in management research
4. Discover the different steps of any research process
5. Clarify the sources of low replicability
6. Implement exact and conceptual replications
7. Implement reproducibility by adopting open science methods

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-2

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Characterize the strength and limitations of different models
2. Describe some of the challenges of studying management theories
3. Understand the basic toolkit of non-cooperative game theory and the scope for applications.
4. Identify the main results of agency theory and its applications to organizational design, governance and related issues
5. Survey the scope and stakes of Behavioral Decision Theory for management research
6. Familiarize with major aspects of Social Psychology such as social influence and motivated reasoning

Prerequisite

Library databases; Science definition and the scientific method; Required pre-readings.

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-3

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Review and synthetize fundamental themes in a field of research
2. Characterize what makes a good literature review
3. Describe and point out some of the problems with academic literature
4. Critically reflect on your own approach to reading papers and to searching academic literatures
5. Be aware of the different types of reviews and their respective strengths and weaknesses
6. Are able to make informed decisions (regarding approach, scope, structure, etc.) when planning a literature review
7. Translate academic insights into everyday language

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-4

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Recognize main qualitative methods and comprehend major challenges of data collection and analysis
2. Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative research 
3. Review qualitative research papers
4. Explain what topics are pertinent to study with a qualitative research approach
5. Distinguish how to interpret findings from a qualitative research and how to assess their validity
6. Collect and use qualitative data for exploratory studies

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-5

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Select the appropriate explanatory method in accordance with the research problem and the available data
2. Determine the quality of used multi-item measurement instruments in quantitative research
3. Test a multiple linear regression, to assess whether the results can be trusted, and to analyze them
4. Test a binary logistic regression and analyze the results
5. Develop a mediation and moderation analyses thanks to a regression approach
6. Implement the Johnson-Neyman technique and the floodlight analysis

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-6

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Explain the interest of experimental methods for research in management and business 
2. Survey experimental research papers 
3. Design an experiment

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-HRMOB1

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language French

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Develop the ability to formulate interesting and relevant research questions.
2. Understand the concepts of mediation and moderation in research.
3. Learn how to develop and use scales effectively.
4. Make an informed choice of a research design in relation to a research question
5. Understand the choices involved in and be able to critique different types of designs, notably:
   1. experimental research designs
   2. longitudinal quantitative and qualitative research designs.
   3. multi-level designs.
6. Develop the skills to present a research paper design.

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-HRMOB2

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language French

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Understand the types of questions that the statistical method answers
2. Apply the method to other examples and situations
3. Implement the method using software (eg, Spss/Mplus/Jamovi)
4. Interpret the results in a way that answers the question posed
5. Communicate the objectives of the analyses, the conclusions of the analysis and the implications of these results

Prerequisite

Having followed the core course “introduction to quantitative research” in the first semester.

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-HRMOB3

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Evaluate and critique the choice of qualitative or experimental research methods for a given research question
2. Being aware of the strength and limitations of specific experimental and qualitative design choices in OB and HR research
3. Explain and apply different criteria of research rigor that can be employed in qualitative versus experimental designs
4. Evaluate the promises and difficulties of combining different designs
5. Develop appropriate qualitative and experimental research designs in the field of organizational behavior and human resource management
6. Gain experience in putting such designs into practice.
7. Estimate and explain the potential use of these methods for your PhD

Prerequisite

Having attended the introductory MSc core course on “learning and practice of research” and the first semester MSc course “research questions and design”.

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-HRMOB1

ECTS 9.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 51.00

Personal work hours 153.00

Teaching Language English

Prerequisite

None.

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-HRMOB2

ECTS 6.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 45.00

Teaching Language English