Emerging HRM issues
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — Second Year
Subject: Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management (MGT 223)
Part II - Unit 12: Employee Maintenance and Emerging Issues in HRM
Academic Year: 2083/84
Topic Objectives
After studying this topic, students should be able to:
- Explain the scope and key elements of emerging hrm issues.
- Explain the behavioral or human-resource concepts and assess their application in organizational situations.
Curriculum Scope
- Employee empowerment
- Downsizing
- Work-life balance
- Technology in HRM
- e-HRM
- Green HRM
- HRM outsourcing
- Ethics: surveillance versus privacy
Detailed Microsyllabus
Workforce and work design
- Empowerment, downsizing and work-life balance.
- Employee and organizational consequences.
- Responsible implementation.
Technology and emerging practices
- Technology, e-HRM and HRM outsourcing.
- Green HRM and environmental objectives.
- Ethical balance between workplace surveillance and privacy.
Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, revised four-year BBS curriculum, PDF pages 44-46.
Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit or component allocations apply at their stated level; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here.