Dec 11, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Academic Catalog-June Update 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Academic Catalog-June Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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BUS 6602 - Human Resource Management-Education Leadership

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course prepares students to identify, recruit, select, hire, orient, evaluate and develop the talent needed to drive organizational success in education environments. Current and emerging trends in strategic human resources and the work environment are identified and analyzed. Students identify and evaluate a variety of workforce culture issues and assess the impact of different employee recruitment, performance, engagement, and retention strategies. Legal and regulatory requirements affecting the workforce are also reviewed. In addition, students will identify and evaluate a variety of employee compensation and benefit models.  Examples, scenarios, and applications in this course will focus on K-12 school settings. (prereq: none)
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 an 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
Dan Pavletich



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