Leadership Development Concentration Courses
- Developing Leaders and Leadership Capability
- Developing Leaders to Create Value
- Servant Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Master of Arts in Human Resources Required Courses
Managing Human Resources Costs
Monitor and assess financial achievements of human resources goals, as well as other financial planning and control mechanisms within the work organization.
Human Resources Planning and Administration
Integration of human resources with strategic business functions and planning. Examines issues of structure, staffing, effectiveness, performance and assessment and diversity within organizations.
Wage, Salary, and Benefit Administration
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.
Recruitment Selection and Placement
Examine issues and methods for effective recruitment, employment selection and job placement. Compare various methods and procedures used as related to job requirements.
Training and Development
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.
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Examines human behavior as it impacts the work organization. Includes theoretical foundations of motivation, group dynamics, leadership, decision-making, satisfaction and performance.
Employment Law
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.
Value Systems and Professional Ethics
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.
Trends, Issues, and Perspectives in Human Resources
Extended overview of the role of human resources in organizations. Existing theory and practice as well as new and emerging topics in the field.
Research: Assessment and Evaluation
Develop conceptual and analytical skills and knowledge to assess organizational needs and program effectiveness through the use of research methodologies.
Applied Case Studies in Human Resources
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.
Elective course (choose 1)
- Organization and Consultation Skills
- Career Development
- Managing a Culturally Diverse Workplace
- SHRM Certification Course
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