Human Resources Management (HRM) aims to recruit, train, develop, motivate, evaluate, remunerate enough qualified employees to perform the necessary functions for businesses to achieve their long and short-term goals, and protect occupational safety and health. It is a management approach focused on people.
Near East University, Human Resources Management Department started its education in the 2006-2007 academic year. The aim of the department is to train human resources managers who know the basic principles and strategies of contemporary human resources management, have the ability to solve problems, think fast, make the right decisions and apply these decisions correctly, have leadership qualities and speak English well. The department is in constant interaction with the Business Management, Economics, Banking and Finance departments in the Faculty.
Students who graduate with a four-year undergraduate degree in Human Resources Management Department will have the opportunity to work as a human resources manager / specialist / responsible in various businesses. The graduates of the department will be able to perform human resources planning, employee relations management, training planning, career planning, performance and wage management, recruitment and interview techniques and other human resources practices at a professional level.
Course Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS | Course Hours | LAB | |
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1. YEAR / 1. SEMESTER | ENG101 | English I | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
COM101 | Intro.to Computers | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MTH171 | Maths for Bus & Econ.I | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS101 | Principles of Econ.I | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS103 | Introduction to Business | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
YIT101/TUR101 | Turk. for Inter.Students I/Türk Dili I | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
1. YEAR / 2. SEMESTER | ENG102 | English II | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
COM102 | Computer Applications | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MTH172 | Maths for Bus & Econ.II | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS102 | Principles of Econ.II | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS104 | Principles of Management | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
YIT102/TUR102 | Turk. for Inter. Students II/Türk Dili II | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
2. YEAR / 1. SEMESTER | MAN201 | Communication for Business I | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
EAS203 | Financial Accouting I | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MTH261 | Statistics I | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MRK308 | Marketing Communication | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS206 | Introduction to Law | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
AİT101/103 | Atatürk İlkeleri I/Princ.of Atatürk’sI | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
2. YEAR / 2. SEMESTER | MAN202 | Communication for Business II | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
EAS204 | Financial Accouting II | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MTH262 | Statistics II | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
SOC100 | Sociology | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS207 | Business Law | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
AİT102/104 | Atatürk İlkeleri II /Princ.of Atatürk’s II | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
3. YEAR / 1. SEMESTER | EAS310 | Organizational Behaviour | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
EAS305 | Principles of Marketing | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS303 | Managerial Accounting | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS301 | Business Finance | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MRK324 | Approaches to Psychology in Marketing | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
3. YEAR / 2. SEMESTER | EAS308 | Operations Res. and Management | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
MRK307 | Consumer Behaviour | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS402 | Human Resource Management | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS302 | Finanacial Management | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
EAS405 | Production Management | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
4. YEAR / 1. SEMESTER | EAS304 | Marketing Management | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
EAS307 | Research Methods | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MRK304 | Marketing and Society | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
Elective | 3 | 6 | 3 | |||
Elective | 3 | 6 | 3 | |||
4. YEAR / 2. SEMESTER | EAS403 | Marketing Reseach | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
MRK412 | Digital Marketing | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MRK423 | Marketing Strategy | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
MRK402 | International Marketing | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
Elective | 3 | 6 | 3 |
YEAR 1
English I (course type: required; course code: ENG 101)
Course content: Focuses on grammar and developing of all language skills. This
course aims at enabling students to understand their lessons and to express
themselves in English.
Maths for Business and Economics I (course type: required; course code:
MAT 171)
Course content: This course is aimed at providing a comprehensive treatment of
selected topics in both finite mathematics and calculus. It will make students as
comfortable as possible in an environment of quantitative analysis of computers.
Introduction to Computers (course type: required; course code: CIS 151)
Course content: Introduction to the World of the Computer, Defining the Computer,
The History of Computer, Computer Generations, Elements of Computer Systems,
Hardware of Computer, Classification of Computers, Principles of Computer
Working, Using the Computer and MS-DOS Operation System, DOS Editor
Introduction to Business (course type: required; course code: MAN 101)
Course content: Broad integrative course covering all functional areas of business;
finance, human resources, management sciences and information systems and
marketing. Relationships among business, government and society considered.
Principles of Economics I (course type: required; course code: ECON 101
Course content: Basic concepts of economics and mainly elementary
microeconomics. Topics covered are: The economic problem, Supply and Demand,
Elasticity, Marginal analysis of consumers and firms behaviour, The theory of profit
maximization, Analysis of markets, Pricing in competitive and non-competitive
markets.
English II (course type: required; course code: ENG 102)
Course content: course aims to take students to advanced level of English.
Maths for Business and Economics |I (course type: required; course code: MAT
172
Course content: Limits and Continuity. Average Rate of Change and Slope.
Derivatives, Instantaneous Rate of Change, Higher Order Derivatives. Optimisation,
Concavity of Inflection Points. Maxima and Minima. Revenue, Cost and Profit
Applications, Anti Derivatives, Rules of Integration, Differential Equations,
Mathematics of Finance, Simple and Compound Interest, Present Value, Effective
Interest, Future Value, Annuities.
Computer Applications (course type: required; course code: CIS 152)
Course content: Introduction to Windows, Windows Commands, How the windows
commands work, Introduction to Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power
Point, Project of Microsoft Power point.
Principles of Management (course type: required; course code: MAN 102)
Course content: The basis of management, theory and practice; the nature of
planning; decision making; the nature and purpose of organising; basic
departmentalisation; line and staff authority; decentralisation; human resource
management and selection; motivation and leadership; the system and process of
controlling.
Principles of Economics II (course type: required; course code: ECON 102)
Course content: Elementary Macroeconomics. Determination of National Income,
The Role of Government, The Banking System. Problems of Inflation, Unemployment
and Growth.
Principles of Atatürk I and II (course type: required; course code: ATA 101/102)
Course content: This course is designed exclusively for Turkish national and Turkish
Cypriot students. The aim is to provide the principles of Atatürk analytically and
historically in both semesters. This course covers the period of the process of Turkish
independence war and the period of the establishment of Turkish national state, and
modernization process.
YEAR 2
Communication for Business I (course type: required; course code: MAN 201)
Course content: This course aims to improve the student’s ability to understand and
use English Grammar and vocabulary in business context.
Statistics I (course type: required; course code: MAT 281)
Course content: Frequency distributions and Graphing Frequency Distributions,
Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Dispersion and Skewness, Basic
Concepts and Rules of Probability, Probability Distributions: Binomial, Poisson,
Normal, and Chir-Square Distributions, Sampling Concepts, Sampling Distributions
Financial Accounting I (course type: required; course code: ACC 202)
Course content: This course is comprised of the following topics: Accounting;
Information for Decision Making, Basic Financial Statements, The accounting Cycle:
Capturing Economic Events, The Accounting Cycle: Accruals and Deferrals, The
Accounting Cycle: Reporting Financial Results, Accounting For Merchandising
Activities, Financial Assets, Accounts Receivable and Notes Receivable, Inventories
and Cost of Goods Sold.
Introduction to Law (course type: required; course code: MAN 206)
Course content: A basic introduction to the study of law namely the Nature of Law,
Legal Systems, The Development of Law, The Structure and Work of the Courts, The
Concepts of Legal Personality and Capacity and an Outline of the European Union,
its Laws and Institutions, Company Law and Tort.
Microeconomics (course type: required; course code: ECON 201)
Course content: The main objective of this course is to familiarise the students with
the topics of microeconomics. The main topics covered in this course consist of the
Firm and Industry, Perfect competition, Monopoly, Oligopoly, Analysis of Factors of
Production, Human Capital, Trade Unions, Game Theory, etc.
Communication for Business II (course type: required; course code: MAN 202)
Course content: This course presents a business story within the context and
structure of two typical business communication situation. The target language items
are described in terms of the functions they perform within the communicative
structure of the meeting or negotiation.
Statistics II (course type: required; course code: MAT 282)
Course content: Summary of Discrete Distributions, Summary of Continuous
Distributions, Descriptive Statistics, Point Estimation, Interval Estimation and the
Control Limit Theory, Inferences in the Mean and Variance of a Distribution,
Inferences on Proportions, Comparing two Means and two variances, Simple Linear
Regression.
Financial Accounting II (course type: required; course code: ACC 203)
Course content: This course is comprised of the following topics: Accounting for
Marketable Securities, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Plant and
Intangible Assets, Liabilities, Stockholders’ Equity: Paid-in Capital, Income and
Changes in Retained Earnings, Statement of Cash Flows and Financial Statement
Analysis
Business Law (course type: required; course code: MAN 207)
Course content: A basic introduction to the law relating to business transactions
namely an Introduction to the Law of contract and various kinds of Business
Contracts. This is followed by an examination of Employment Law, including some
provision requirements, European Union Law and an outline of Insurance Law and
some aspects of Banking Law.
Macroeconomics (course type: required; course code: ECON 202)
Course content: Introduction of the economy as a whole including such topics as
economic organization, national income accounting, economic growth and
fluctuations, inflation, labor market, money and monetary policy, government and
public economy, international trade. Course covers the use of theoretical tools to
explain the determinants and measurements of the level and change in aggregate
macroeconomic variables. One of the goals of this course is to provide a basic
knowledge of most important macro economic theories (Keynesian and classical
approaches examined).
YEAR 3
Principles of Marketing (course type: required; course code: MARK 303)
Course content: To provide fundamental concepts and to introduce related business
activities within a systems perspective, supported with managerial and functional
approaches for planning, pricing, promoting and distributing, satisfying products to
target markets in order to achieve organisational objectives.
Managerial Accounting (course type: required; course code: ACC 301)
Course content: The purpose of this course is to guide the students to gain
knowledge and information about managerial accounting. It aims to use the
information in managerial decision making; The Nature of Costs, Cost-Volume-Profit
Analysis, Standard Costs, Budgeting; Operational Budgeting, Financial budgeting and
Capital budgeting.
Business Finance (course type: required; course code: FIN 301)
Course content: This is an introductory course in the principles of corporate finance.
The primary objectives are to familiarize students with the major financial decisions
made by firms, the process for making those decisions, and to provide a conceptual
framework for understanding and analyzing those decisions. Major topics include
financial statement analysis, the time value of money, bond and stock valuation and
investment techniques.
Organizational Behaviour (course type: required; course code: MAN 310)
Course content: The theoretical and research contribution of the behavioral sciences
to management and administration are examined and applied to selected
organizational situations. Areas to be considered from the standpoint of both
individual and organizational performance are communication, motivation, conflict,
decision-making, goal setting, leadership, organizational design, climate,
development and control. Utilizing a systems perspective, the course attempts to
develop in each student an ability to analyze and solve organizational problems.
Human Resource Management (course type: required; course code: HRM 302)
Course content: The course aims at showing the importance of human resource
management (The management of people) and its link with productivity, quality of
worklife, and profits in today’s highly competitive world. Human resource
management activities examined include job analysis, human resource planning,
recruitment, selection, orientation, training and development, performance appraisal,
career development, compensation management, labor relations, and employee
health and safety.
Marketing Management (course type: required; course code: MARK 306)
Course content: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating of Total System of
Marketing Activities in Business Organisations with Special Emphasis put upon
preparing Marketing Plans, Marketing Budgets and Auditing Marketing Performance.
Managerial approach within System Perspective Supported with Functional Approach
is used.
Sociology (course type: required; course code: SOC 100)
Course content: A general overview of sociology including history and
methodology, explanation of the main schools in sociology, mainly Durkheim, Weber
and Marx. Overview of group, stratification, instiutitons and structure in general.
Financial Management (course type: required; course code: FIN 302)
Course content: This course is the continuation of FIN 301. The principal methods of
instruction will consist of interactive lecturing and problem-solving. The objective of
this course is to give the students detailed information about capital budgeting, risk
and return, cost of capıtal and long-term financial policy and short-term financial
planning.
Operations Management and Research (course type: required; course code:
MAN 308)
Course content: The fundamentals of operations research and modeling. The
development, application and compatation of the basic operations research
techniques. The topics convered are: Application of Scientific Methodology to
Business Problems and Mathematical Modelin, Linear Programming, Scientific
Approach to Decision Making.
Research Methods (course type: required; course code: MAN 307)
Course content: This course is designed to teach professional communication skills.
Emphasis is placed on research, listening, critical reading and thinking, analysis,
interpretation, and design used in oral and written presentations. Upon completion,
students should be able to work individually and collaboratively to produce welldesigned business and professional written and oral presentations.
YEAR 4
Marketing Research (course type: required; course code: MARK 401)
Course content: This course concerns the use of marketing research as on aid to
marketing decisions. Specifically, this course addresses how the information used to
make marketing decisions is gathered and analysed. Accordingly, this course is
appropriate for both prospective users of researches.
Production Management (course type: required; course code: MAN 453)
Course content: Basic Principles and Methods of Production. Manufacturing
Facilities, Plant and Equipment. Operating Characteristics. Deterministic and
Probabilistic Applications, Recent Developments in Production. Also, provides an
understanding of the fundamental concepts, approaches and techniques for the
production of goods and services of the firms.
International Business (course type: required; course code: MAN 401)
Course content: This course surveys the international relationships of world
business operations. Students will be introduced to current conceptual perspective.
Emphasis will be in areas of environmental dynamics, multinational business
organizations, cultural, political, and economic constraints within international
financial and trade frameworks. Also included are the problems and challenges facing
the multi-national corporation, its strategy and policy.
Strategic Management (course type: required; course code: MAN 407)
Course content: This course provides a synthesis of previous courses of the
program. Major task in this course will be to make strategic decisions and to justify
those decisions. Strategic decisions determine the future direction and competitive
position of an enterprise for a long time. Students will have the opportunity in this
course to make actual strategic decisions.
Management Information Systems (course type: elective; course code: MAN
409)
Course content: The role of computing systems in the management, control, and
operation of organisations from the perspective of information systems professionals;
review and analysis of strategic and technological issues affecting management
information systems.
Employment Law (course type: elective; course code: HRM 304)
Course content: A conceptual and functional analysis of the legal framework and
principles of industrial and employment relations, with special emphasis on
discrimination in the workplace in the domestic and global environment. Topics
include discrimination based on race, sex, age, and disability; testing and
performance appraisal; wrongful discharge; labor/management issues; and employee
benefits.
Organizational Staffing (course type: elective; course code: HRM 401)
Course content: Study of the systems, strategies, and practices of effective provision
of the staff of organizations. Emphasis will be on the psychological principles that
shape the design of successful recruitment and selection of members of
organizations. This includes external searches as well as internal transfer of
promotion.
Human Resource Training and Development (course type: elective; course
code: HRM 402)
Course content: An examination of employee training and human resource
development in various organizations. Topics include the development,
administration, and evaluation of training programs; employee development; career
development; and organizational change. Issues in employee development including
assessment of employee competencies, opportunities for learning and growth, and
the roles of managers in employee development are explored.
Compensation Management (course type: elective; course code: HRM 403)
Course content: An examination of financial reward systems in organizations in the
context of relevant theoretical and legal perspectives. Topics include job evaluation,
pay surveys, incentives, pay equity, benefits, and compensation strategy.
Employer-Employee Relations (course type: elective; course code: HRM 404)
Course content: A study of the collective bargaining process, labor-management
agreement, contract administration, law of labor management relations, union
structure and goals, and influence of external labor markets on labor relations.
Strategic Human Resource Management (course type: elective; course code:
HRM 405)
Course content: An exploration of methods for aligning human resource
management functions and activities with corporate strategic goals. Topics include
human resource planning and diversity; strategies for recruitment, selection, and
development; equal opportunity, sexual harassment, and discrimination policies;
compensation planning; appraisal system planning; and strategic labor/management
issues.
International Human Resource Management (course type: elective; course
code: HRM 408)
Course content: Focuses on the role of the manager in international organizations
and creates awareness of differing legal environments and societal attitudes. Relates
national differences to functional areas of human resource administration, including
staffing, compensation, training, and labor relations.
Current Issues in Human Resource Management (course type: elective; course
code: HRM 409)
Course content: In depth examination of problems or issues of current concern in
human resource management from around the world.
Negotiation Strategies (course type: elective; course code: HRM 410)
Course content: An introduction to methods and processes of negotiation and
collective bargaining. Negotiating strategies related to selected products, services,
and management issues are explored. Case studies and exercises in negotiation are
used to examine various strategies.
Management of Change and Organizational Development (course type: elective;
course code: HRM 411)
Course content: Introduction to the dynamics of institutionalizing small- and largescale organizational change efforts. The objective is to provide insight into the
limitations of the concept of planned organizational change. The factors that inhibit
change from occurring gracefully and the role that individual behavior, group
behavior, organizational structure, and organizational culture have in the planned
change process are explored.
Hospitality and Human Resource Management (course type: elective; course
code: HRM 412)
Course content: This course explores the relationship between managing human
resources and providing quality services and products to guests and customers in
hospitality.
Managing Teams in Organizations (course type: elective; course code: HRM
413)
Course content: An examination of how and why team development can be effective
in organizations and when it is appropriate. Topics include group dynamics, stages of
group development, team-building techniques, team goals and leadership, and
interpersonal and individual skills to foster cohesion and effective performance.
Economics of The Employment Relationship (course type: elective; course
code: HRM 414)
Course content: Fundamentals of labour economics. The economic dimensions of
public policies and human resource management.
Organizational Psychology (course type: elective; course code: HRM 415)
Course content: This course is concerned with various aspects of people in the
workplace, including employee productivity and well-being. The course covers a
general survey of organizational psychology, including such topics as personnel
selection and evaluation, job satisfaction, environmental factors and current research
on individual behavior in complex organizations.
Occupational Health and Safety (course type: elective; course code: HRM 417)
Course content: This course is designed to develop basic skills and raise the
awareness of OH&S issues, hazards and risks, and outline occupational health and
safety systems and processes.
Human Resource Information Systems (course type: elective; course code:
HRM 430)
Course content: This course focuses on the interface of the Human Resource
Management functions of an organization with computer technology. It identifies
issues involved in creating, implementing, and maintaining human resources systems
and the benefits of human resources systems.