Human Resource Management

​Course Coordination

Susana Cristina Alves da Silva Pereira

​coord.grh@umaia.pt

​Description

Graduates in Human Resource Management are qualified to perform the roles of human resources assistant, officer, manager, director or consultant in public or private, not-forprofit or for-profit, local or global organisations in industry or the service sector. The course syllabus is designed to give students logical, close contact with all the technical, financial and behavioural skills, features and demands required of human resource management in a business environment that is marked by instability, discontinuity, flexibility and creativity.

Using different teaching methods focused on combining theoretical precision with finding practical solutions and applications – which is fundamental to developing different work skills – the course prepares students to perform functions that apply different human resource techniques and policies, including: 

• Analysing and describing functions; 
• Vocational training and professional development; recruitment, selection and integration of new employees;
• Professional careers; 
• Salary management; 
• Performance evaluation; 
• Administrative personnel management; and labour legislation. 

At the end of the course, students will have a broad, inclusive and modern vision of the various facets, processes and techniques that organisations demand from professionals with specific training in the area.​

Admission exams 2026/2027

Holders of a Portuguese secondary education diploma may apply through one of the following options:

OR

Calculation of the Application Score

The calculation of the application score depends on the number of admission exams used in the application:

OR

The course be​nefits from diversified, cross-cutting training supported by the different courses offered by the department, which is particularly enriching. Academic staff are members of a research unit (Research Centre in Business Sciences - NECE) classified as “Good” in the Foundation for Science and Technology’s international evaluation.

All the functions/areas related to administrating and managing human resources and are performed by HR officers/managers: 

• Recruitment and selection; 
• Performance evaluation; Career management; 
• Remuneration management; 
• Incentive plans; 
• Skill management; 
• Audits and consultancy; 
  
• Organisational culture; 
• Occupational health and safety; 
• Changing management; 
• Empowering work teams; 
• Project management; 
• and others.

Registry​

Publication in the Official Gazette

Notice  n.º 12502/2022 - 2nd series,  N.º 119 of 22 de june 2022.

​Accreditation of the Study Program