MGT 512 Human Resources (1 credit)

The Human Resource Management course is designed to introduce graduate students to the key concepts and practices in human resource management (HRM). As part of the six seminars that make up this course, students will be exposed to the support and functional activities involved in the management of human resources. This exposure will also involve an overview of the relationships that these activities have to various outcomes that organizations seek to achieve through HRM, and the strategic role HRM can (and should) play in organizational development. Aimed at the graduate student who sees him/herself as either a future (or current) general manager or a specialist who deals with general managers, the course forces the student to struggle in a realistic and practical way with human resource policy and administration issues that top managers face today. The course also consists of students performing a HRM Audit and Evaluation study of an actual company’s human resource strategies and activities.