School of Labor and Human Resources PhD program

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1 School of Labor and Human Resources 2012 PhD program I Discipline Human Resource Management (Discipline category: Management,first-class discipline: Business Administration) II Training objective 1.Master the basic theory and expertise of Marxism; possess nice moral quality, rigorous scientific attitude and professionalism. 2.Master the comprehensive and solid theory and in-depth expertise in Human Resource Management and Organization Management fields; possess the ability to engage into the innovative scientific research work in human resource management field independently. III Research directions 1. Theories and Technologies of Human Resource Management and Development. 2. Organizational Behavior. 3. Cross-cultural Management. IV Study period The basic study period is 3-years. V Requirements of the training methods and learning progress 1. Training methods Combine Mentor responsibility system with guidance from tutor groups. [The group is made up by mentors, Ph.D. supervisors in the discipline and associate professors or above (doctorate) that being invited.] 2. Requirements of the learning progress i Comprehensive Examination: The course study period is a year and a half, if the selected courses passed the appraisal, the Ph.D. candidates will take the disciplinary comprehensive examination and then do the paper opening report after appraisal. ii Topic-choosing Report: To ensure the cutting-edge and novelty of the topics while avoid the repetition of the same professional direction, firstly the doctoral

2 student will be asked to choose topic and do literature reading report in the mentor group conference to get topic-choosing guidance in the discipline field. iii Interim Report: Students independently complete the study course after the opening report. In to enhance and supervise doctoral research capacity and ensure the quality of dissertation research, students should do the interim report within the mentor group before the pre-defense (at least 4 months) to make the research findings scientific and rigorous. iv Doctoral students who have completed the interim report and academic lecturer once can enter the pre-preparation of the pre-defense. 3. Strengthen the learning style construction and discipline yourself strictly and abide by academic ethics and academic standards. Abide by academic ethics and academic standards and discipline oneself strictly should be carried out in all study links of the PhD phase: be practical, serious and hard-working in study and comply with classroom discipline; be honest and serious in the examination and comply with the examination rules; be rigorous and meticulous in academic research, don t adore reputation, comply with academic norms; don t plagiarize in essay writing and publishing, don t impersonate others research, abide by academic ethics, discipline oneself strictly. Ⅵ Knowledge structure and the basic requirements of the course study. 1. The basic requirements of the knowledge structure Students must master the fundamental theoretical knowledge and professional knowledge in this discipline, pay attention to learn and grasp the dynamic development of cutting-edge knowledge, and are encouraged to take interdisciplinary elective courses according to the needs of the papers. 2. Curriculum and credits composition (see attached table) The total credits are not less than 23. Public Course at least five credits, Methods Course at least six credits, Specialized Courses not less than nine credits, Optional Course at least two credits, Academic Lectures at least one credit, at least two Advanced Placement. Ⅶ Qualifying Examination The disciplinary comprehensive examination is a comprehensive examination after the doctoral students completing the course study and before entering the dissertation research stage. The exam is composed of written part and oral part. Ⅷ Academic seminar and social practice

3 1. Academic Seminars (1 credits). Students should participate in academic lectures at least 10 times before the comprehensive examination, and in principle they must attend the academic lectures organized by the school. After the opening report, the doctoral student must attend academic conferences and lectures relevant to the principle (at least 10 times, being speaker at least once) again and provide comment reports for mentors to audit and assess. 2. Social Practice (excluding credits). The required social practice must be enterprises and social attachments recommended by the university party and government organs. After the practice, students must provide a written summary report or survey report for the mentor to supervise. Ⅸ Presentation on the Research Proposal of Dissertation The presentation is to elaborate, review and determine the Ph.D. dissertation topics and content in order to monitor and guarantee the paper quality. Ⅹ Research and academic papers publication Doctoral students should publish two (including two) or above papers before applying for paper defense. Specific requirements: at least one academic paper published in core journals that identified by the Department of Scientific Research and one high level academic paper approved by School Academic Council. Ⅺ Dissertation writing and requirements 1. Dissertation writing The dissertation writing is the core link of the doctorate education and the concentrated reflection of the doctoral training quality and academic levels. The doctoral student must finish paper writing within the stipulated time. Dissertation is academic paper, specific requirements can be found in The writing specification of doctoral dissertation and The writing and printing requirements of the dissertation and abstract of the Graduate School, Renmin University of China". Dissertation must be independently completed on schedule by doctoral student under the guidance of mentor. The dissertation should meet the requirements of the training objects and ensure quality. 2. The defense and degree-granting The doctoral students who finish all the projects regulated by the training plan, pass the assessment and write a dissertation and its abstract can enter the dissertation review and defense stage recommended by the mentor and approved by the Graduate School.

4 Attachment: curriculum and credits requirements 1. Public Course (5 credits) (1) Political theory course Chinese Marxism and Contemporary (economy) 2 credits PUM701 semester 1 (2) Foreign Language Language Infrastructure 3 credits PUF700 semester 1 2. Methods course (6 credits) Seminar & Doctoral Guided Research 3 credits HRM701 semester 2 (This course is taught by the mentor group who has detailed study directions. Under the guidance of the doctoral supervisor, in ways of lectures and discussion, the purpose is to enable doctoral students to share the experience, learning strategies of tutors. Combining with the literature study, the students could grasp the empirical methods of management, including quantitative and qualitative analysis methodology related to management issues. Students would understand and learn the researchers 'way of thinking, research strategies through discussion. It would also improve students' interest in scientific research, enhance their confidence in innovation and set the foundation of develop a scientific and rigorous research style.) Methods of Science and Logic 3 credits PUE803 semester 1 (Introduce the basic theory and main results of modern logic, advocate analysis reason and scientific spirit among humanity and social science workers. Do philosophical analysis and generalization for the challenging results of the modern logic. Provide a new theoretical perspective and scientific nutrition for a variety of humanities and social sciences. Take intensive training of logical thinking ability.) Statistical Model and Their Applications 3 credits PUS702 semester 1 (This course involves the following contents: Statistical Review, Variance Analysis, Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Discriminatory Analysis, Canonical Correlation Analysis, Correspondence Analysis, Contingency Tables, Logistic Regression, Poisson log-linear Model, Time sequence Analysis and Survival Analysis. R, SAS procedures and SPSS program instructions will also be taught to achieve these statistical methods. Prerequisite: calculus) 3. Major course (no less than 9 credits) Intensive Literature Review in Human Resource Management 3 credits HRM801 semester 2 (Know the domestic and international cutting edge issues and the latest developments in human resource management academic research. Trough reading the

5 classic research in the field and the domestic and international top journals (about 20) in latest three years, master the main research conclusions, dynamics and trends of every direction of human resource management (performance, salary, training, recruitment, etc.), propose new research issues combined with human resource management practices, and strive to contribute to the theoretical construction of the human resource management. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Human Resources, Theories and Techniques of personnel quality evaluation, Cross-cultural Management, Labor Relations, Labor Economics, Research Design and Data Analysis)) Advances of Organization studies 2 credits HRM802 semester 2 (This course mainly teaches cutting-edge research issues related to organization theory and organizational management, focusing on the theoretical framework, research ideas and methods of the organization science. Understand the relations between organization science and related fields, development dynamics and hot topics of organization structure theory, organizational behavior theory and organizational strategy theory. The course aim is to broaden students' horizons, to capture the overall development trend of the organization and management science, especially the cultivation of independent research topic-choosing and academic appreciation ability. Prerequisite: Principles of Management of master's stage, Strategic Management, Organizational behavior, Theory and Technology of Human Resource Management, Organizational theory and design.) Advances in Organizational Behavior 2 credits HRM803 semester 2 (Know the domestic and international cutting edge issues and the latest developments in Organizational Behavior academic research. Trough reading the classic research in the field and the domestic and international top journals (about 20) in latest three years, master the main research conclusions, dynamics and trends of every direction of Organizational Behavior (individual, group, organization, leadership, etc.). Propose new research issues combined with the practice of organizational change and transformation of Chinese enterprises, and strive to contribute to the theoretical construction of the human resource management, and propose new research topics, and strive to contribute to the theoretical construction of the human resource management. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Human Resources, Theories and Techniques of personnel quality evaluation, Cross-cultural Management, Labor Relations, Labor Economics, Research Design and Data Analysis)) Seminar: The Case Methods & Academic paper writing 2 credits HRM804 semester 2 (On the base of studying the specialized courses, give targeted guidance for problems of doctoral dissertation writing. Through various ways of teaching, such as lectures and seminars, Enhance the novelty level of the doctoral students dissertation and method, but also the theoretical level of the doctoral dissertation.)

6 4. Electives (at least 2 credits) Management Research Design and Data Analysis 2 credits HRM811 semester 1 (This course introduces the management research design, choice of research methods and analysis of research data. Enable students to learn rigorous research design thinking and methods. To grasp the correlation analysis, regression analysis, factor analysis and other commonly used methods of data analysis, and draw management study conclusions based on data analysis results. Prerequisite: Statistics, Research Design and Measurement.) Organization Theory and Organization Design 2 credits HRM812 semester 1 (This course introduces the basic principles, methods of Organization Theory and Design; investigate the management, reform and development of organization Design. Prerequisite: Organizational Behavior.) Note: PhD student take as an elective course in the range of PhD curriculum of the whole school. 5. Academic seminars (1 credit) 6. Advanced Placement Theories and Techniques of Human Resource Management Organizational Behavior