Master's Degree final project

Schedule of deposit and defense of the final master project

The Master’s Degree Final Project will be developed according to the topics proposed by tutors and approved by the Academic Coordinating Committee. The topics are the following:

Department of Business Organisation:

Public Administrations and HR (basic statute of public service, quality management, HR, city councils).
Evaluation systems and rewards.
Competences management system and value-based management, linked to the career development.
Knowledge management, organisational learning and its influence on HR strategy.
Communication plans to companies.
Design of HR strategies based on commitment.

Department of Labour Law:

Productive decentralisation; self-employment.
Internal flexibility and external flexibility in the reform of 2010.
Information, participation and consultation and collective bargaining.
Crisis and reform of the social security.

Department of Social Psychology:

Work stress
Emotional intelligence
Psychosocial risks at work
Organisational processes

The assignment of a specific topic and a tutor to each student will be carried out by the decision of the student according to the criteria of academic record and depending on the availability of tutors (always that professors have enough credits for attending one student).

TYPE OF PROJECT

In the event that the Master’s Degree Final Project consists in the development of a basic research this should contain the following sections: title, summary, key words, introduction (objectives/contribution, definition of concepts, qualitative methodology, cases, review of sentences or cases...) quantitative (sample, variables, data analysis) results, discussion (interpretation of results, theoretical and practical implications, study limitations) and bibliography. It is possible that the student develop in the Master’s Degree Final Project a intervention proposal without this being introduced. In this case, a diagnosis in the company will be made, and depending on the results obtained the proposal will be made or not.

In all cases, the report should be original and its length should be at least 14.000 words (50 pages approximately; 70 pages maximum)

Course Planning/Calendar
An informative session addressed to all students enrolled at the Master’s Degree Final Project will be done. In the session students will be informed about the characteristics of the Master’s Degree Final Project, the development process, the thematic lines, the tutors and the assignment criteria.
Once all students have been assigned the thematic lines, these should contact with their tutors. For submitting the Master’s Degree Final Project for its assessment, the student must have the approval of the tutor.
After the formal submission of the Master’s Degree Final Project the student will defence the project before an Assessment Committee in an open session.

In the assessment of the project the following aspects will be taking into account:

Original work
The goal of the project is clearly defined and explained.
The literature related directly with the objective of the project is described rigorously.
The techniques elements of the project (measuring tools, sample, data analysis, description of results/intervention proposals) are adequately described).
There is coherence between the different parts of the project (objective, theoretical introduction, methodology, results, conclusions)
The writing is correct
There is clarity and neatness in the presentation of the text, tables, figures and other elements of the project.
The bibliography is appropriate and the quotation system relevant.