Master of Arts in Human Resources - Leadership Development Concentration Courses
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BUS 7003 | Developing Leaders and Leadership Capability (3 Credits)
Course focuses on strategic and tactical approaches to developing comprehensive leadership, talent management, and succession planning processes for an organization. It involes defining leadership capabilities needed by a company at the individual, team, and organizational level.
BUS 7004 | Leading Business to Create Value (3 Credits)
Course focuses on how leaders create value for the organization and key stakeholders. Students will compare various whole system approaches to assessing organizations. Topics include strategy, values, norms of behavior, reward systems, decision-makinf and accountability, processes and systems, and the role the leader plays in managing and aligning those components to add value to the business. Dynamics within organizations, including those at a personal, interpersonal and organizational level will be assessed. Various approaches a leader can use to align and focus an organization, such as strategic performance management or the Balanced Scorecard, will be considered for appropriate application and expected benefits to the business.
BUS 7006 | Servant Leadership (3 Credits)
Course explores the philosophy of life and leadership dedicated to the growth of others as well as values-driven institutions that contribute to just, caring, and sustainable societies. Topics include enhancement of student awareness of their values and how those values are reflected in their decisions and actions, the gap and tension between stated individual and organizational values that drive behavior, identification of points of leverage to affect change in operational systems, leadership philosophies, styles, and strategies, and contemporary concepts of values and system-level thinking integration.
HRC 7341 | Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace (3 Credits)
Research shows emotional intelligence (EI) is more important than IQ in determining outstanding job performance. Examines variety of instruments and writings used to build EI in workplace. Cross-listed with HRC 5734 and BUS 5734.
Elective course (choose 1)
HRC 7661 | Organization Consultation Skills (3 Credits)
Emphasis on the consulting process in organizations including the role and skills of a consultant, internal versus external consulting, contracting for services, resistance to change, diagnosis, data collection and interventions to improve organizational performance. Apply consulting skills to case simulation.
HRC 7811 | Career Development (3 Credits)
Studies issues and methods involved in career development, as well as the personal and organizational issues and practices relevant to individual careers. Examines career development methods and their application to specific work situations.
HRC 7841 | Effective Management Techniques (3 Credits)
Study of how personal characteristics and background influence organizational behavior and outcomes. Includes theory and techniques for working with and leading a workforce made up of a variety of people in order to increase organizational effectiveness and to enable all members to reach their full potential.
HRC 8552 |Advanced Special Topics: SHRM Certificate Prep (3 Credits)
Course covers a detailed review of Human Resource Management and preparation for the Human Resources Certification Institute certification examination. Students will study particular facets of HR management in detail and prepare students for teh HRCI examination using the Society of Human Resource Management Learning System Materials.
Students interested in preparing for the SHRM SCP (Society for Human Resource Management Senior Certified Professional) should take HRC 8552 as the elective in this program.
Master of Arts in Human Resources
Required Courses List (36 Credit Hours)
HRC 7361 | Managing Human Resources Costs (3 Credits)
Monitor and assess financial achievements of human resources goals, as well as other financial planning and control mechanisms within the work organization.
HRC 7411 | Human Resources Planning and Administration (3 Credits)
Integration of human resources with strategic business functions and planning. Examines issues of structure, staffing, effectiveness, performance and assessment and diversity within organizations. Cross-listed with BUS 7100 and BUS 5741.
HRC 7461 | Wage, Salary, and Benefit Administration (3 Credits)
Provides comprehensive overview of the elements of compensation, legal ramifications and compensation design and design of benefits programs and their impact on compensation and recruitment.
HRC 7561 | Recruitment Selection and Placement (3 Credits)
Examine issues and methods for effective recruitment, employment selection and job placement. Compare various methods and procedures used as related to job requirements.
HRC 7601 | Training and Development (3 Credits)
Cover fundamentals, purpose and role of the training and development function in human resources. Includes needs assessment, program development, methods and technologies, management development, evaluation of interventions. Cross-listed with BUS 5764.
HRC 7611 | Organizational Behavior and Theory (3 Credits)
Examines human behavior as it impacts the work organization. Includes theoretical foundations of motivation, group dynamics, leadership, decision-making, satisfaction and performance.
HRC 7741 | Employment Law (3 Credits)
Examination of Equal Employment Opportunity, Americans with Disabilities Act, Family Leave Act and other recent and forthcoming legislation. Discuss impact for employee relations and management training for compliance.
HRF 7001 | Value Systems and Professional Ethics (3 Credits)
Study of personal and corporate value systems and decision making. Investigation of personal beliefs, purposes and attitudes, and their effects on self and others. Examines the ethical dimensions of organizational structures and practices.
HRF 7111 | Trends, Issues, and Perspectives in Human Resources (3 Credits)
Extended overview of the role of human resources in organizations. Existing theory and practice as well as new and emerging topics in the field.
HRF 7161 | Research: Assessment and Evaluation (3 Credits)
Develop conceptual and analytical skills and knowledge to assess organizational needs and program effectiveness through the use of research methodologies.
HRF 8481 | Applied Case Studies in Human Resources (3 Credits)
Seminar for graduating students in which participants develop a major case study of human resource issues, programs and policies in a current organization, most often their own. Draws from previous courses as issues are identified, analyzed and discussed. Prerequisite: Completion of 30 semester credit hours of program.
Elective course
Three Credit Hours from the follwing:
HRC 7661 | Organization Consultation Skills (3 Credits)
Emphasis on the consulting process in organizations including the role and skills of a consultant, internal versus external consulting, contracting for services, resistance to change, diagnosis, data collection and interventions to improve organizational performance. Apply consulting skills to case simulation.
HRC 7811 | Career Development (3 Credits)
Studies issues and methods involved in career development, as well as the personal and organizational issues and practices relevant to individual careers. Examines career development methods and their application to specific work situations.
HRC 7841 | Managing a Culturally Diverse Workplace (3 Credits)
Study of how gender, ethnicity and other cultural diversity dimensions influence organizational behavior and outcomes. Includes theory and techniques for working with and leading diverse workforce in order to increase organizational effectiveness and to enable all members to reach their full potential.
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