2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses

Human Resource Management

Academic unit or major: Humanities and social science courses
Instructor(s): Masayuki Masuda
Class Format: Lecture (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): Intensive
Class: -
Course Code: LAH.A422
Number of credits: 100
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 2Q
Syllabus updated: Apr 2, 2025
Language: Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

The theme of this course is “Human Resource Management.”

This course offers opportunities to:
(1)Understand the concept and system of human resource management theory.
(2)Understand the classics of human resource management, which is the basis of the current human resource management theory and the new aspects of human resource management theory .
(3)Understand organizational behavior and organizational theory, which are the basis of various systems in human resource management theory.

Companies seek to acquire human resources, develop their capabilities, and retain them to increase their competitiveness.
The aim of this course is to learn how the various theories of human resource management have developed historically and to acquire basic knowledge of human resource management.

Course description and aims

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

(1) State the characteristics of human resource management theory.
(2) Describe the development of human resource management from labor management.
(3) Explain how leadership is assumed and exercised in organizations.
(4) Understand the job consciousness in Japan, and to describe how organizations are designed based on it, and where the challenges and significance lie.
(5) Understand the characteristics and limitations of employment management in Japan and describe how individuals should develop their careers in the future society.

Student learning outcomes

実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)

The lecturer worked as a team leader and manager in both domestic and international organizations.
In this class, I will share with participants practical human resource and organizational management techniques that I have developed to increase labor productivity by considering the individuality, motivation, and skill development of workers.

Keywords

Business Administration, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, Organizational Development

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Each class will be primarily conducted in a lecture. Depending on class size, group work and group discussions may be incorporated.

After each class, each student submits a short summary of what the student has learned in the class.

This intensive course will be conducted in-person on the following dates and times:

-Monday, September 1: Session 1 (Periods 1-2), Session 2 (Periods 3-4)
-Tuesday, September 2: Session 3 (Periods 1-2), Session 4 (Periods 3-4)
-Wednesday, September 3: Session 5 (Periods 1-2), Session 6 (Periods 3-4), Session 7 (Periods 5-6)

This is an intensive course. If acquiring credits for this course is related to your own graduation, please keep the following two points in mind and fully understand the risks before taking this course.
- Intensive courses are held in a short period of time, and since there are many classes per day, as a general rule, it is not possible to take excused absences.
- Grades can not be reported in time for graduation decisions.If you plan to graduate in September 2025 and the credits for this course are related to your graduation, please take other courses.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Guidance; Self-Introduction; Description of Human Resource Management Theory.	Understand the development of human resource management theory. Describe the key features of the employment relationship contract. State the key functions of human resource management.
Class 2	Generation of Human Resource Management Theory / Business Management and Human Resource Management	Describe the development from labor management to human resource management. State the role of human resource management in business management.
Class 3	Motivation to Work / Leadership to Motivate Staff	Explain the significance of labor from the perspective of organizational behavior theory. Describe what kind of people exercise what kind of leadership in an organization.
Class 4	Job Design	Understand what a job is and explain the characteristics of job design that affect worker satisfaction and productivity.
Class 5	Organizational Design	Understand the basics of organizational design and describe the challenges and significance of organizational design.
Class 6	Employment Management and Career Development	State the characteristics and limitations of employment management in Japan. Explain how individuals should develop their careers in relation to companies.
Class 7	Personnel Rating System and Professional System	Explain what is a personnel performance evaluation system in a professional qualification system. Describe the effectiveness and challenges of the professional qualification system.

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to course materials.

Textbook(s)

None specified.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Course materials will be provided via Science Tokyo LMS and other means.

Reference book (in Japanese):
“Human Resource Management,” (Chuo-keizaisha, 2015, ISBN-13: 978-4502169618)

Evaluation methods and criteria

After each course, students will submit a brief memo summarizing what you learned in that day's course. Each memo will count for 10% of the final grade (7 courses / 70% total).

Additionally, students will submit a final report (approximately 2,000 characters) after completing all intensive courses.
This report will count for 30% of the final grade, for a total of 100%.

Related courses

LAH.S406 ： Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences6:Business System Design

Prerequisites

-The final class of this intensive course is on September 3rd.
-As the final class date is after the Quarter2 grade submission deadline (August 20th), grades cannot be submitted in time for 　　
completion procedures.
-If you plan to complete your degree in September 2025 and need this course credit for completion, please take another 　
course instead.
-An interest in Human Resources working in organizations is desirable.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

masayuki.masuda.66[at]gmail.com

When inquiring by emails, include the course title "Human Resource Management" in the subject, and your student ID and name in the body of the email.

Office hours

Cotacts by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.