6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4023331ENR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
For this course you have to meet certain enrolment requirements. For an overview of the enrolment requirements check https://www.vub.be/en/studying-vub/practical-info-for-students/study-guidance/study-path/individual-study-path#paragraph--id--71647 Students must have taken ‘Work and Organizational Psychology’ (not for students SCH 45 SP), before they can enroll in ‘HRM in de praktijk EN 'Evidence-based Human Resources Management’.​ + Enrolling in 'HRM in Practice AND Evidence-based Human Resources Management' means that you simultaneously take or have successfully passed ‘Principles of Human Resource Management'.
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Department
Experimental and Applied Psychology
Educational team
Sara De Gieter (course titular)
Joeri Hofmans
Tim Vantilborgh
Activities and contact hours
36 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
55 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

In this course students learn how to approach topics related to Human Resources Management (HRM) and Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychology in an evidence-based way. They learn how to analyze a topic (e.g., Invest in open-offices? Use MBTI for selection purposes? Unlimited number of days off?) in a systematic way and formulate an evidence-based advice.

During the lectures, the students first learn how evidence-based management works. After this, they conduct an interview with an HR-manager (group assignment) in order to analyze the way the organization deals with HRM problems (e.g., How do they select a personality test for selection purposes?) and present their findings in a short report. During the next lectures, the students (divided in teams) analyze a particular problem in an evidence-based way, under supervision and guidance of the teaching team. They present their evidence-based findings and advice in a written report.

As part of this course, students are obliged to participate in an annual two-day teambuilding seminar (together with the 3rd bachelor and 2nd master students Industrial/Organizational psychology) in order to become familiar with the exercises and with the role of instructor, which they have to fulfill in their final master year.

Course material
Practical course material (Required) : Lesnota's van de student
Digital course material (Required) : Slides van de docenten (Canvas), Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : Studiemateriaal aangeleverd door de docenten
Additional info

Na

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

After following this course, the student:

  • knows what evidence-based management is
  • can analyze a problem from the HRM or I/O psychology domains using an evidence-based approach
  • can formulate an evidence-based advice with regard to a problem from the HRM or I/O psychology
  • can formulate evidence-based suggestions to improve existing HRM practices within organizations
  • has gained knowledge on and experience in how to function in a team
  • has experienced how teambuilding exercises work and how a team is developed

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
SELF Paper determines 60% of the final mark.
SELF Report determines 40% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Rapport EVB analyse case with a relative weight of 60 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Report category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Reflectieverslag Interview HR with a relative weight of 40 which comprises 40% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation
  • Participation in all assignments is required, if not 'absent' for the entire course.
  • Participation in the 2-day teambuilding seminar is mandatory. If the student doesn’t participate, he/she is ‘absent’ on this assignment, resulting in ‘absent’ for the entire course.
  • To individually grade students on the group assignment, we will use peer evaluation (mandatory). This means that students will evaluate themselves and their team members on a number of criteria, resulting in an adjustment factor. This adjustment factor will be used to individualize the grade received by the team on the group assignment, by multiplying the team grade by each team member's adjustment factor. The group assignment (reflection report interview HR-manager + paper EVB case) counts for 100% of the total grade of the course. When a student does not complete the peer evaluation by the given deadline, the course instructor can decide to deduct the maximum amount of points possible with the peer evaluation for that student. The course instructor has the final say in the application of the peer evaluation, and can decide to increase, decrease, or ignore the adjustment factor, if the peer evaluation scores appear unreliable. Such decisions will only be taken in exceptional cases, and will always be based on clear arguments, analyses, and/or a discussion with the involved students.
  • 2nd exam period: If the student fails the course in the 1st exam period, he/she will need to redo those elements of the course on which he/she failed. All elements of the course will need to be done individually in the 2nd exam period, which implies that there will be no peer-evaluation. In the second exam period, students cannot participate in a new teambuilding seminar, so they need to make an alternative assignment with regard to teambuilding. Written reports need to be handed in by the first Monday of the 2nd exam period before 12:00 (noon).
  • In previous years the price varied between 50-80 euros. The VUB offers possibilities for financial support: https://student.vub.be/studiefinanciering 
  • Students can request an exemption for assignments in which they succeeded in the previous year, not only during the first class or within the 2 weeks following this first class.
  • In exceptional cases, the group assignments can be made on an individual basis, but only after a thorough motivation and with an agreement of the teacher received during the first class or within the 2 weeks following this first class.
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)