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2022/2023

Human Resource Management in Public Administrations

Code: 101878 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2502501 Prevention and Integral Safety and Security OT 4 1

Contact

Name:
Mèrida Iglesias Lucia
Email:
merida.iglesias@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Teachers

Cristina Manresa Llop

External teachers

Sra. Cristina Manresa

Prerequisites

This subject does not have any pre-requierments

Objectives and Contextualisation

The main objects of the subject are:
 
- Know the different areas and possibilities of work offered by Public Administrations (AAPP)
 
- The typology of personnel at the service of Public Administrations.
 
- Know how staff templates can be dimensioned and organized.
 
- Systems of selection to the AAPP, the procedures and requirements.
 
- Approach to career opportunities in the AAPP
 
- Systems for evaluating the performance of public employees
 
- Identify the professional competences applied to the AAPP.
 
- Legal status of working conditions of public employees
 
- Professional public management.

Competences

  • Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
  • Be able to adapt to unexpected situations.
  • Communicate information , ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised publics.
  • Efficiently manage technology in security operations.
  • Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and in professional activity developing curiosity and creativity.
  • Identify, manage and resolve conflicts.
  • Make changes to methods and processes in the area of knowledge in order to provide innovative responses to society's needs and demands.
  • Plan and coordinate the resources of the three large subsystems that interact in questions of security: people, technology and infrastructures.
  • Respond to problems applying knowledge to practice.
  • Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  • Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Use the capacity for analysis and synthesis to solve problems.
  • Work in institutional and interprofessional networks.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse the sex- or gender-based inequalities and the gender biases present in one's own area of knowledge.
  2. Analyse the situation and identify the points that are best.
  3. Apply different management systems to public safety.
  4. Apply the different concepts involved in the internal and external communication of an organisation.
  5. Be able to adapt to unexpected situations.
  6. Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern professional practice.
  7. Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and in professional activity developing curiosity and creativity.
  8. Identify, manage and resolve conflicts.
  9. Propose new methods or well-founded alternative solutions.
  10. Propose projects and actions that incorporate the gender perspective.
  11. Respond to problems applying knowledge to practice.
  12. Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  13. Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  14. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  15. Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  16. Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  17. Take decision relating to the contingencies involved in managing risks in public systems.
  18. Use the capacity for analysis and synthesis to solve problems.
  19. Work in institutional and interprofessional networks.

Content

BLOCK 1

1.- Employment in Public Administrations and the field of security.

2.- Administration, management and HR policies in the public sector.

3.- The normative framework of public employment.

4.- Staff typology

BLOCK 2

5.- Public employment management instruments

6.- Selection and provision systems.

7.- Rights and duties of public employees.

8.- Disciplinary system and incompatibilities

9.- Promotion and career of the staff

BLOCK 3

10.- Performance evaluation

11.- Remuneration system: incentivation and productivity.

BLOCK 4

12.- Collective rights to public employment.

13.- Security recource management.

14.- Security work plans (planification)

15.- Transversality

16.- Conflict management

Methodology

The methodology to be followed throughout the implementation of the teaching will be mixed: explanation by the teacher to the time interaction with the students through the question / answer system in the theory sessions. To the practical contents, on the other hand, there will be a clear protagonism of the students, since the teacher will only offer the initial questions and will support throughout the individual or group work of the students. It is about making a simultaneous system of teaching-learning of the students, which becomes a type of training to face in the best conditions the tests of theory and practice at the end of the block.

Depending on the size of the group, you can also use the group dynamics technique with a spokesperson to assess teamwork.

In each of the thematic blocks, the same scheme will be made:

• Presentation with script.

• Approach of basic questions to learn.

• Content exhibition.

• Realization of practical assumption.

• Summary essential elements of the subject.

The tutorials with the teaching staff will be arranged by email

 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Evaluation 4 0.16
Theoretical classes with the participation of students 40 1.6
Type: Supervised      
Resolution of practical causes. Tutoring with students 12 0.48
Type: Autonomous      
Personal study 94 3.76

Assessment

Students will take continuous assessment tests (PEC) that will be delivered through the moodle classroom, related to the different blocks of the temary.

The students will make two evaluation through written test, one corresponding to blocks 1, 2 and 3. I one other prova corresponding to block 4. This test may be oral at the teacher's discretion.

Re-evaluation

In case of not passing the subject according to the aforementioned criteria (continuous evaluation), a recovery test may be done on the date scheduled in the schedule, and it will cover the entire contents of the program. To participate in the recovery the students must have been previously evaluated in a set of activities, the weight of which equals a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject. However, the qualification that will consist of the student's file is a maximum of 5-Approved.

Students who need to change an evaluation date must submit the request by filling in the document that you will find in the moodle space of Tutorial EPSI.

Plagiarism

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in the event that the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation act, it will be graded with a 0 This evaluation act, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed In case of various irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0 ". The tests / exams may be written and / or oral at the discretion of the teaching staff.

 Students that retake the course

Regarding those students who have to retake the course, it should be emphasized that the assessment methodology is the same as for other students

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Resolution of practical cases and realization of works 50 0 0 5, 6, 1, 2, 4, 3, 11, 7, 8, 17, 9, 10, 16, 15, 14, 12, 13, 19, 18
Written or oral tests to assess the knowledge acquired by the student Block 4 25 0 0 5, 6, 1, 2, 4, 3, 11, 7, 8, 17, 9, 10, 16, 15, 14, 12, 13, 19, 18
Written or oral tests to assess the knowledge acquired by the student Blocks 1 - 3 25 0 0 5, 2, 4, 11, 17, 16, 12, 13, 18

Bibliography

JAUREGUIZAR Y MORENO, ERNESTO de. Manual práctico de Recursos Humanos en la Administración Pública, Dykinson, Madrid, 2020.

JIMÉNEZ ASENSIO, Rafael: Directivos Públicos, Instituto Vasco de Administración Pública, 2006.

RODRÍGUEZ VILLANUEVA, J., La estructuración de la función pública española: diseño, gestión y posibilidades de optimización".  2021

SÁNCHEZ MORÓN, Miguel Y OTROS: La función pública directiva en Francia, Italia y España, INAP, Madrid, 2007.

URCELAY LECUE, M.C., Utilización abusiva de los contratos temporales en la función pública española. Revista Aranzadi Doctrinal, 2020

DEPARTAMENT DE JUSTÍCIA, La transversalitat a l'àmbit comunitari. 

PEP MARTÍ, Equipos campeones. Plataforma Editorial, 2019

STEPHEN R. COVEY, Los 7 hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva. Paidos editorial.

 

Software

This subject will use the basic software of the Office 365 package