The course is an advanced course on two main aspects of Organization: people working in the enterprises and information and communication technologies. Scope of the course is to prepare students to imagine and design organizational and technological solutions for innovation in international enterprises. We have chosen to present the items with a socio-technical approach that: manage the impact of new technologies on human resources; use people competencies in an effective way through technological tools. One part of the course aims at presenting how today effective human resource management is necessary to gain true competitive advantage in the marketplace, particularly underlying three challenges companies face nowadays, that are sustainability, technology, and globalization. In particular, the course focuses on issues that are changing the current role and the activities of HR function. The other part of the course describe the ICT application framework, its impact on enterprise information systems and propose methodologies to design ICT architecture in a human resource oriented perspective. Some sessions are designed by joining these two aspects under the project management perspective, as a method for organizing and realizing new technology-based HR systems.

Human Resource Management: introduction. What are the HRM functions and how are they changing.
Strategic Human Resource Management: ways HR provides competitive advantage
The HRM function: role, organizational structure, managing elements.
Improving HRM effectiveness through new technologies: information system framework for HR.
Case studies (in industrial and finance and banking sector)
People management in international environment: leadership and trade union relationship
Does IT matter? How and why IT may influence the organization success
How to organize a project for developing HRM and IT complex systems
Technologies for innovating in the learning organization: collaboration as a need and virtual team.