Rīgas pedagoģijas un izglīTĪbas vadības augstskola

8. Plan of the development of the study programme

STRENGTHS

1. 
   The study programme complies with the standards of Latvian legislation and the practice of European educational establishments.
   
2. 
   The profession is in demand on the labour market.
   
3. 
   Professional academic staff work in the programme.
   
4. 
   Regular enhancement of the study courses.
   
5. 
   Wide application of methods in the acquisition of study courses.
   
6. 
   Cooperation of the Academy’s structural units in the implementation of the programme.
   
7. 
   Students and employers participate in the Board of the Division of Management and Economics, Study Council and Qualification Commission.
   
8. 
   The study programme is implemented at times and places convenient for students in Riga and study branches
   

WEAKNESSES

1. 
   The small proportion of academic degrees in the Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship.
   
2. 
   The small amount of participation in foreign seminars and business trips.
   
3. 
   Insufficient provision of material and technical resources at RTTEMA study branches– the library stocks and computer equipment should be more abundant.
   

When the study programme Personnel Management is accredited, it will attract students not only in Riga but also other Academy’s study branches. Professional personnel specialists will work not only in Riga but all over Latvia. The work of the personality as an individual in raising the organisational efficiency will rank higher.
With the increase in the number of students the lecturers’ load increases, too. Hence, the possibility to attract professional and academically educated staff to full-time job in the programme arises.
MOST CURRENT TASKS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROGRAMME

1. 
   To inform the public about the advantages of the programme offered by RTTEMA with the help of mass media.
   
2. 
   To organise common scientific research activity of the academic staff of the programme just in the field of personnel management by attracting a lecturers’ working group to one project, since up to now scientific research work has been conducted mainly by individual researchers.
   
3. 
   To organise lecturers’ mutual lecture observation and analysing the results at departmental meetings.
   
4. 
   To establish cooperation with higher educational establishments in Europe and the U.S.A.
   
5. 
   To find the possibility for the academic staff of the programme to receive education and gain experience in other higher educational establishments.
   
6. 
   To involve students in the scientific work more widely, motivate students to participate in projects, conferences and seminars.
   
7. 
   To motivate the graduates of the study programme to pursue post-graduate studies so that at least 50% of the graduates of the programme obtain a Master’s degree.
   
8. 
   In cooperation with LPMA to provide students with the qualification practice in organisations which are LPMA members and devise cooperation principles.
   
9. 
   To organise field visits to enterprises with a developed personnel department for students within the study course Personnel management.
   
10. 
    To enhance the employers’ interest in the study programme.
    
11. 
    To use more opportunities of information technologies in the organisation of the study programme.
    
12. 
    To continue the enhancement of the material and technical resources.
    

The above-mentioned measures were discussed at the Board of the Division of Management and Economics.

Appendices
No. 1. Division of the study courses over study years and semesters

No.2. Descriptions of study courses.

No.3. Entry requirements and terms of matriculation.

No.4. RTTEMA Regulations on Examinations on January 31, 2005.

No.5.Promotional booklet of the programme.

No.6.The personnel manager’s Professional Standard.

No.7. Questionnaires of employers’ poll.

No.8. Practice Regulations.

No.9. Agreement on the provision of practice
No.10. Practice programmes.
No.11. Themes of students’ scientific papers.

No.12. Questionnaires of students’ poll

No.13. CVs and scientific biographies of the academic staff of the programme

Appendices¹

Appendix No.1

Division of the study courses over study years and semesters

	Study year 1, Semester 1
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Personnel management	A	1	T
2	Second foreign language	B	1	T
3	Logics	A	2	E
4	Issues of the culture of the Latvian language	A	2	E
5	English for Special Purposes	A	2	T
6	Fundamentals of economics	A	2	T
7	Information technologies in personnel manager’s work	A	2	T
8	Record keeping in personnel manager’s work	B	3	E
9	Practice in personnel record keeping		2
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		17
	Study year 1, Semester 2
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Personnel management	A	1	T
2	Fundamentals of accounting	B	1	T
3	Second foreign language	B	1	T
4	Business etiquette	A	2	T
5	Interaction training	A	2	T
6	English for Special Purposes	A	2	T
7	Fundamentals of economics	A	2	E
8	Personality psychology	A	2	E
9	Information technologies in personnel manager’s work	A	2	T
10	Optional subject	C	2	T or E
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		17
	Study year 2, Semester 3
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Personnel management	A	1	T
2	Fundamentals of entrepreneurial law	A	1	T
3	Fundamentals of accounting	B	1	E
4	Second foreign language	B	1	T
5	Scientific project	B	1	T
6	Fundamentals of philosophy	A	2	E
7	English for Special Purposes	A	2	T
8	Information technologies in personnel manager’s work	A	2	T
9	Methods of research work	A	2	T
10	Optional subject	C	2	T or E
11	Practice in personnel record keeping		2
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		17
	Study year 2, Semester 4
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Personnel management	A	1	T
2	Fundamentals of entrepreneurial law		1	E
3	Second foreign language	B	1	T
4	Sociology	A	2	E
5	Fundamentals of management	A	2	T
6	Information technologies in personnel manager’s work	A	2	E
7	Work psychology	B	2	T
8	Job legislation and job protection	B	2	T
9	Term paper I	B	3
10	Practice of observing and comparing personnel departments of different organizations		4
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		20
	Study year 3, Semester 5
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Second foreign language	B	1	T
2	Business communication	A	2	E
3	Personnel management	A	2	T
4	Fundamentals of management	A	2	E
5	Work psychology	B	2	E
6	Quality management	B	2	E
7	Business ethics	B	2	T
8	Work legislation and labor protection	B	2	E
9	Communication psychology	B	2	E
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		17
	Study year 3, Semester 6
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Second foreign language	B	1	E
2	Personnel management	A	2	T
3	Organizational and management psychology	A	2	T
4	Statistics	B	2	T
5	Personnel manager’s professional ethics	B	2	T
6	Methods of business games	B	2	T
7	Term paper II	B	4
8	Practice of observing and comparing personnel departments of different organizations		4
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		19
	Study year 4, Semester 7
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Personnel management	A	2	E
2	Organizational and management psychology	A	2	E
3	Project management	B	2	E
4	Ergonomics	B	2	T
5	Employment problems in the European Union	B	2	T
6	Personnel information systems	B	4	E
7	Practice of observing and comparing personnel departments of different organizations		4
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		18
	Study year 4, Semester 8
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Business English	B	2	T
2	Fundamentals of financial and management accounting	B	2	T
3	Qualification examination		4
4	Qualification practice		10
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		18
	Study year 5, Semester 9
			Credits	Form of assessment
1	Adult study methods	B	2	T
2	Public relations	B	2	T
3	Optional subject	C	2	T or E
4	Business English	B	3	E
5	Development and defense of diploma paper		8
	Total amount of credit points in the semester		17
	Altogether in all study semesters		160