A Study on Essential Aspects of Human Resource Management Curriculum in Universities: Stakeholders' Expectations

Abstract

Selecting a specialization area is the most important and the most difficult decision that undergraduates ever made in their life. It is not only affect to their academic life but also for future personal life. There are number of specializations related to the Business Administration undergraduate degree program and Human Resource Management [1] also one of the significant area which undergraduate can select as their specialization. This paper refers to identify essential aspects of HRM to be included in the curriculum. Data collection was based on primary data which was collected through telephone interview method. The convenience sampling method was used to select eight industrial professionals and lecturers in respective area. The NVivo software have been used to analyze the data gathered from interviews. The findings of the present study suggest that modules in existing HRM undergraduate curriculum should be developed and there is a necessity of adding some new modules/ subjects/ core subjects in practical way. It was significantly identified that modern and digitalized HR practices, some practical sessions should be added to the existing HRM educational curriculum. As an implication of the study, the results will be offered as a guidance for the people who are engaging in HRM education system in order to understand the course content of the degree program and this concept recognized key aspects towards the high quality instruction for the development of HRM curriculum. This study recommends future researchers to increase the sample size and gather data even from HRM undergraduates rather than industrial professionals and lecturers.