Human Resource Management (HRM)

This course is designed to help students proactively manage their careers by focusing on key areas that impact objective and subjective measures of career success.

This course will help students to understand the basic framework of employment law in the United States and analyze the major issues in employment law, including laws protecting employees from discrimination, as well as wage and hour laws and laws covering employee privacy, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, immigration, and safety and health.

This course is a professional opportunity in Human Resource Management where students in collaboration with the instructor gain experience in the business world with private, not-for-profit, or governmental organizations.

This course focuses on interpreting results to inform people-centered decisions. This builds upon the introduction of human resource management. It looks in-depth at topics such as people analytics, staffing, performance management, managing compensation and reward systems, and training and development.

This course is about both the design and execution of human resource management. This course has two central themes: how to think systematically and strategically about aspects of managing the organization's human resources, and what really needs to be done to implement these policies to achieve competitive advantage. It addresses human resource topics including high-performance human resource systems, change management, HR strategic performance metrics, organizational development and effectiveness, trends in HR, managing workforce changes, and sustainability and corporate social responsibility.