6 ECTS credits
154 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4015416FNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Studenten die dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen, moeten kennis hebben van matrixrekening.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Business Technology and Operations
- Educational team
- Marie Guerry
(course titular)
Eline Pauline A De Block
- Activities and contact hours
-
16 contact hours Lecture
16 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
122 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The aim of this course is introducing quantitative techniques that are useful in manpower planning. Among other subjects, there is studied career patterns, wastage analyses, recruitment- and promotion policies, modelisation of manpower systems, push (Markov) models, pull (Renewal) models, attainability and maintainability of personnel distributions.
- Course material
- Course text (Required) : Manpower planning, Kwantitatieve methoden voor personeelsbeleid, Marie-Anne Guerry, VUB, 2220170006628, 2019
Handbook (Recommended) : Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning, Bartholomew D.J, Forbes A.F, McClean, S.I, BIB, 9780471928799, 1991
- Additional info
Not applicable.
- Learning Outcomes
-
Gain insight
- Formulate concepts in own words
Reflecting
- Use mathematical techniques in manpower planning
Social skills
- Collaborate constructively for group tasks
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral Exam
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Intermediate Eval. group work
with a relative weight of 50
which comprises 25% of the final mark.
- Presentation+Result group work
with a relative weight of 50
which comprises 25% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
- The exam consists of two mandatory components:
- Theory: oral exam (with written preparation);
- Practice: Presentation of the results of a case study (group work).
- During the oral exam (with written preparation) no electronic material may be used.
- All participating students must be present during the presentation of the group work.
- In the second exam session, the student has the possibility to keep the obtained mark for the group work in the first exam session.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Psychology: Afstudeerrichting arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Business Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)