Course Descriptions for the Management Department

Human Resource Management  
List of all courses and their descriptions
List of all courses, their descriptions and offerings in the schedule book

HRMG6020 - Inclusion & Equity In Wrkplc

Spring 2024

This course covers several topics essential to today's ever-changing workforce. Employers, employees and human resouce departments are facing challenges hidden in the more diverse workplace based on gender, race, sexual orientation and national origin. Students will identify and apply strategies to manage various cnoflicts in the workplace. This course will prepare our HR leaders to evaluate current policies and change as needed, provide training while creating an inclusive organizational culture. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6050 - Labor Relations

Spring 2024

This course will be interactive with students actively engaging in resolving issues both in an online and on ground format. Students will be given cases that reflect the readings in the text. In threaded discussions and guidance from the instructor they will evolve in the online portion of the course positions that reflect the need of the two sides of an issue - labor and management. The following week the students will meet and be assigned a position, labor or management, to resolve in negotiation. Students will be exposed to established practices of management-labor relations. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6100 - Challenges In Human Resource M

Spring 2024

This course introduces the student to the critical issues facing HR managers in today's changing global environment. This is a fully online course which relies on active participation in threaded discussions and interactive work with classmates in the course. Within the context of the 21st century workplace, the course will review trends affecting the HR function today; the impact of globalization on the workplace; the diverse and complex nature of organizations' workforces; the need for a framework for effective employee engagement; managing change in a competitive environment; and, the role of corporate social responsibility. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6125 - Enhance Employee Retention

Spring 2024

This course focuses on improving employee retention with an emphasis on effective recruiting, selection, and training for both new and established employees. With the goal of reducing turnover and the related costs to an organization, the course will look at developing a recruitment and selection process that will recognize the right candidate for the appropriate position prior to making a job offer. The course will then focus on performance management with the goal of giving the established employee new challenges through enhanced training to reinforce employee motivation, thereby reducing turnover and the related expenses. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6150 - Recruit, Selection and Retent

Spring 2024

The course in Recruitment, Retention, and Selection offers an in-depth study of recruiting and retention issues facing the human resource professional in the increasingly global work environment. It begins by linking strategic human resource management to the steps involved in developing job analyses for organizations, which then drive the recruitment and selection process of employees. From this examination of recruitment and selection, the students will focus on the retention process including realistic job preview, benefits of person-organization and person-job fit, orientation and employee-employer psychological contracts. Within the context of each of these human resource areas will be an assessment of legal requirements. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6200 - Training/Devl Through Perf Mgt

Spring 2024

This course provides an in-depth study of training and development utilizing performance management as a basis. The course distinguishes between performance management and performance appraisals as a process of developing the individual employee. Its focus is on career development for the employee and long term succession planning for the organization. The course also covers the basic philosophies and methods of training and development. It will utilize real-life organizational issues in a project-oriented case analysis. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6250 - Benefits Administration

Spring 2024

This course emphasizes the role of employee benefits in the management of the human resource function in an organization. The course covers the definition of employee benefits, and components of legally required benefits, as well as components of healthcare, retirement and disability benefits. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6320 - Behavioral Dynamics & Impact

Spring 2024

This course uses builds on the relatively large commonalities between the subject areas of Organizational Behavior (OB) and Human Resource Management (HRM), to bridge the relationships and applications between OB and HRM. The course will use OB concepts to specifically demonstrate their application and translation to organizational effectiveness through successfully aligning HR practices and policies. With an emphasis on aligning organizational behavior dynamics to creating effective organizational outcomes, this course will focus on topics such as inclusion and equity, unconscious bias and its impact on organizational effectiveness, the complexity of effective performance management, leadership with a focus on succession planning and change management - all within the framework of current and evolving organizational standards and best practices. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6325 - Total Rewards/Compensation

Spring 2024

This course assists in developing decision-making skills in the areas of compensation and employee benefits. The course will focus on the process of enhancing the development and implementation of human resource strategies in these two areas that play an important part in the hiring and retention of employees. The course will stress the role of the human resource function as a key player in assisting the organization in meeting its mission and goals. Students will learn how to design and execute a compensation and benefits package. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6350 - Compensation Management

Spring 2024

This course emphasizes employee compensation, strategies and practices extant in organizations. The course will examine both the strategic and tactical approaches to compensation as well as the intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions that motivate individuals to undertake their jobs and the requirements associated with each position. The course focuses on the use of employee compensation as a resource to attract and retain the best possible talent for an organization conducting business in the current competitive work environment. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the labor market and the major factors for establishing effective compensation packages: the internal consistency of wage evaluation, external competitiveness within the industry and the marketplace, recognition of employee contributions to organizations for compensation received, and the costs associated with administering pay packages. A review of legal compliance issues and of comparable worth in the workplace is included. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6500 - Employment Law

Spring 2024

Employment law is a broad area that is composed of federal, state, and local statutes and regulations, administrative rulings, and case law. This course will examine the laws and regulations that affect the employer-employee relationship in the private sector and their impact on the human resource function. Students will be asked to apply the law presented in the tet and to develop solutions to related HR problems through case analyses and threaded discussions. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6520 - Grievance & Arbitration

Spring 2024

This course will cover the process of employee grievances in a workplace where the employees are represented by a labor union. Course will focus on the process of progressive discipline and the union grievance procedure that is often the response. Course will also cover the arbitration procedures set by the courts as they relate to the grievance procedure. Students will be challenged to achieve solutions to cases presented by the instructor. Students will engage in online discussions in seeking equitable resolutions acceptable to both management and organized labor.
Prerequisite: HRMG6050 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6550 - Finance/Acct For Non Finan Mgr

Spring 2024

This course provides a foundation in financial management to allow people to understand and use financial information. The intent of the course is not to make the student an accountant. Rather, its goal is to provide a basic understanding of the language and tools of financial management to make the student conversant in the field. The primary goal is to provide the skills necessary to use financial information rather than the more technical skills needed to generate that information.
Prerequisites: MBAP5012 and MBAP5022 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6700 - Hr Measurements & Applications

Spring 2024

This course assists in developing quantitative decision making skills to better assess human resource measures. The course will focus on the process of enhancing the development and implementation of human resource strategies based on the analysis and interpretation of the data that exists in organizations. The course will stress the role of the human resource function as a key player in assisting the organization in meeting its mission and goals. Students will learn how to interpret the basic standards in the recruitment and selection process; conduct and assess employee surveys and exit interviews; and will be given the skills to interpret data as well as techniques to present such quantitative data in a convincing format to enhance the role of human resources in the success for the organization. 3 Credits
3 Credits

HRMG6900 - Strategic Human Resource Mgt

Spring 2024

As the capstone for the MSHR program, this course focuses on the application of the concepts and processes of strategic human resource management. Course readings and assignments emphasize the fit between organizational strategy and human resource management as well as the role of the HR function in the overall organizational planning process.
Prerequisites: HRMG6125, HRMG6350 and HRMG6500 3 Credits
3 Credits