Apr 24, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Academic Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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BUS 6600 - Human Resources Management

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course prepares students to conduct job analyses, write job descriptions and identify job specifications as the foundation for talent management. Students will develop plans to recruit, interview, and screen candidates and also define strategies to onboard, socialize, develop and evaluate people to drive organizational success. In addition, students will identify and evaluate a variety of employee compensation and benefit models and assess the impact on employee performance, motivation, commitment, and retention. Finally, the course focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion from both legal and ethical frameworks. (prereq: graduate standing)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Describe applicable employment law related to decisions on recruitment, selection, discipline, promotion, and separation from the organization
  • Develop a compensation model that encourages and rewards performance and results and also ensures employee satisfaction and retention; the model also reflects understanding of labor supply and demand and organizational finances
  • Identify specific, unambiguous, job-related criteria on which to base hiring decisions and develop a comprehensive recruitment and selection plan
  • Demonstrate understanding of performance management by articulating clear expectations, monitoring performance, and coaching for improvement; engage in productive crucial conversations with employees

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None

Course Topics
  • Strategic human resources management
  • Current and emerging human resource challenges
  • Equal opportunity and the legal environment
  • Managing diversity, equity, and inclusion; developing strategies to ensure representation and participation
  • Human resources planning, job analysis, job descriptions, job specifications
  • Recruiting
  • Interviewing and pre-employment testing and screening
  • Performance management: setting expectations, coaching, crucial conversations, performance reviews
  • Training and career development
  • Discipline and due process
  • Employee and management rights
  • Managing employee separations, downsizing and outplacement
  • Managing compensation
  • Rewarding performance
  • Designing and administering benefits
  • Employee relations
  • Workplace safety and health, stress

Coordinator
Mindy Davies



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