ISMAT 22540

Career and Rewards Management

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  The course unit Career and Reward Management is part of the field of Human Resource Management, focusing on strategies for professional development and organizational compensation policies. Its scope includes career planning and management, performance appraisal, and the design of reward systems—both financial and non-financial—aligned with organizational goals. This unit enables students to understand the mechanisms that influence employee motivation, retention, and value creation. Its relevance to the study cycle lies in preparing future professionals to integrate management practices with sustainable career development, fostering both individual well-being and organizational effectiveness.
• ProgramaProgramme

  S1. Introduction to career and reward management topics 1.1. Evolution of the work forms and current contexts 1.2. Career management and reward systems as subsystems of Integrated HR Management S2. Careers: individual and organizational perspectives 2.1. Self-diagnosis methods for competencies and personal characteristics 2.2. Career counseling 2.3. Theories about career design and development 2.4. Careers and personal life 2.5. HR planning, retention and redundancy practices 2.6. Careers and legal settings 2.7. Individual paths and the organization needs S3. Reward systems and motivation 3.1. Concepts and organizational strategy 3.2. Reward system components and respective consistency 3.3. Motivation theories and reward systems. Pay for performance shemes, personal and organizational well-being 3.4. Rewards and legal settings 3.5. Job evaluation and impacts on rewards and career policies
• ObjectivosObjectives

  LG1- Contextualize career and reward management in human resources strategic management and in the legal perspective; LG2- Know and deepen the traditional and current theoretical models related to career management and reward systems; LG3– Perform a self-diagnosis of skills applied to the individual career, learn about career design forms and recognize perspectives of career development in organizations; LG4–Be able to design reward systems in accordance with motivational theories and job evaluation processes.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Ca¿mara, P. (2016) Os sistemas de recompensas e a gesta¿o estrate¿gica de recursos humanos (4ª ed.). Lisboa: Publicac¿o¿es D. Quixote Duarte, H. (2015). Gestão de remunerações. In A.I. Ferreira, L.F. Martinez, F.G. Nunes, H. Duarte (coords), GRH para gestores. Lisboa: RH Editores. Rego, A., Cunha, M. P., Gomes, J. F. S., Cunha, R. C., Cabral-Cardoso, C., & Marques, C. A. (2018). Manual de gestão de pessoas e do capital humano (3ª ed.). Lisboa: Sílabo. Silva, V. P. G., & Reis, F. L. (2018). Capital humano: Temas para uma boa gestão nas organizações (2ª ed.). Lisboa: Sílabo.  
• MetodologiaMethodology

  Theoretical exposition (TM1) of the main contents of the Syllabus (S); Case studies and group work with tutorial of students to support practical work in class (TM2); Analysis and discussion of scientific articles (TM3).
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  5
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não