Human Resources Management

Ano Letivo: 2023/24

It integrates the new generation of managers: a way through people.

IPT's mission is: to expand access to knowledge for the benefit of people and society, through research, teaching and cooperation, in a global training project for the individual. This Master's Degree also assumes the mission of professionalizing students in the area of Human Resources Management, in order to ensure the acquisition of a highly qualified specialization. The MSc makes all sense as a formative continuation of the Degree in Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior. Thus, IPT is prepared so that the students can deepen their knowledge in new markets and enrich their network of national and international contacts that currently holds a high intangible value.

Objectives

Organizations are undergoing times of disruptive change and intense dynamics that place considerable challenges for its leaders in which human factors are crucial. Today, human resources management is not only about managing traditional activities, it involves a strong focus on organizational diagnostic and intervention and the search for continuous improvement in order to achieve a sustainable HR management that is in line with the organisation’s business strategy. Hands-on technical expertise is required from practitioners that can only be obtained from specialist studies based on lifelong learning. The Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management aims at providing students technical knowledge and strategic and developmental skills for a quality performance in human resources management related areas as well as scientific research skills.

Professional Goals

With this master’s degree students will be equipped to work as:

- HR managers or directors;

- HR technicians;

- Advisers to the Board;

- Technical business analysts;

- Technicians/experts in information systems;

-Project analysts;

- Consultants;

- Career development technicians;

- Vocational training managers;

-Technicians/experts in executive search/head hunting/outplacement;

- Teachers;

- Researchers,

This can take place in private or public businesses/organizations such as central, regional and local administration, HR departments and corporate businesses.

Condições de Acesso

Applying to the Master of Human Resource Management all first cycle holders in the area. National academic degree holders or equivalent foreign to the 1st cycle in the areas of management and social sciences in general applications will be considered. According to paragraph d) of article 17 of DecreeLaw 74/2006 of March 24, will also be evaluated other candidates deemed suitable by the selection panel on the basis of curriculum analysis. Operating system: Post Work. Friday: 6pm - 12pm; Saturday: 9am - 1pm and 2pm - 6pm.

Ano Letivo: 2023/24

Curricular plan

Publication in the Diário da República: Despacho n.º 6419/2017, de 24-07-2017

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Plano curricular
Cód.	UC	Area	ECTS		Lecturer
Cód.	UC	Area	Obg.	Opt.	Lecturer
1º Semestre
92995	International Human Resource Management	Recursos Humanos	6		Andrea Isabel Oliveira da Costa e Sousa (1)(2)
92991	Organizational Behaviour	Recursos Humanos	5		João Fontes da Costa (1)(2)
92993	Organizational Diagnosis and Intervention	Recursos Humanos	6		Sílvio Brito (1)(2)
92994	Strategic Organisational Management	Gestão	7		Rúben Loureiro (1)(2)
92992	Talent Attraction, Development and Retention in Organisations	Recursos Humanos	6		Andrea Isabel Oliveira da Costa e Sousa (1)(2)
2º Semestre
92999	Advanced Data Analysis Methods	Matemática	6		Ricardo Covas (1)(2)
92996	Career Management and Reward Systems	Recursos Humanos	6		João Fontes da Costa (1)(2)
92998	Healthy Workplace Management	Recursos Humanos	5		Graciete Honrado (1)(2)
929910	Information Systems for Human Resource Management	Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação	6		Vasco Silva (1)(2)
92997	Start-up Management Processes	Gestão	7		Jorge Simões (1)(2) Sílvio Silva (2)

Plano curricular
Cód.	UC	Area	ECTS		Lecturer
Cód.	UC	Area	Obr.	Opt.	Lecturer
Anual
929914	Dissertation	Recursos Humanos		48	Sílvio Brito (2) Graciete Honrado (2) Fernanda Aparício (2) João Fontes da Costa (1)(2) Andrea Isabel Oliveira da Costa e Sousa (2)
929916	Internship/Placement	Recursos Humanos		48	Sílvio Brito (2) Graciete Honrado (2) Fernanda Aparício (2) João Fontes da Costa (1)(2) Andrea Isabel Oliveira da Costa e Sousa (2)
929915	Project	Recursos Humanos		48	Sílvio Brito (2) Graciete Honrado (2) Fernanda Aparício (2) João Fontes da Costa (1)(2) Andrea Isabel Oliveira da Costa e Sousa (2)
1º Semestre
929911	Research Seminar	Recursos Humanos	8		Sílvio Brito (2) João Fontes da Costa (1)(2)
929912	Thematic Seminars on Human Resources Management	Recursos Humanos	4		João Fontes da Costa (1)(2) Andrea Isabel Oliveira da Costa e Sousa (2) Sílvio Brito (2) Fernanda Aparício (2) Graciete Honrado (2)

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Partnerships

IPT has partnerships with other Higher Education Institutions, which have already resulted in collaborative study cycles: ISPA; ISEG, which in partnership, has already taught a Master's degree at IPT; ISCSP which, in partnership and sharing teachers from both institutions, has already taught the Masters in Management and Public Policies at IPT; University of Salamanca, with a Master's Degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development.