Human Resource Management |
Credit |
Dept. |
MAN 3025 Organization and Management |
3 |
MA |
An analysis of organizations and the management processes of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling in the context of socio-technical systems. Individual, group, intergroup, and organizational responses to various environments and technologies are studied, as are pertinent techniques of manpower management.
Learning Objectives
- Define the management functions and business processes that create value for an organization
- Give examples of basic business concepts, principles and values that contribute to organizational performance
- Formulate a set of management policies, practices, and procedures that influence group and individual dynamics in organizations
- Describe situations where management decision-making should incorporate ethical reasoning, multiculturalism, and internal inter-group behavior
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MAN 4301 Human Resource Management |
3 |
MA |
Attention is focused on the theory and practice of modern personnel management as related to other management functions. Topics include: selection; training; job and performance evaluation; and incentive schemes. Special attention is given to human resource management and development at various organizational levels.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the interrelationship between the human resource management function and the management of the organization as strategic HR.
- Explain the basics of recruiting, interviewing, and selection/hiring.
- Explain the methods of training and development.
- Explain the purposes and types of performance appraisal, feedback, and performance management.
- Understand the basics of employee discipline and termination.
- Explain how to maintain human resources and human capital through selection, evaluation, compensation, skill training, and career development processes.
- Demonstrate understanding of legal issues in employment decisions and employer negligence.
- Understand labor-management practices that foster a productive work environment and that are legally sustainable.
- Identify the measures that create a safe work environment, the role of employee assistance programs and services for building a healthy workplace.
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MAN 4330 Compensation and Benefits |
3 |
MA |
Presents the theories and techniques used by management in the areas of work measurement, wage incentives, and job evaluation.
Learning Objectives
- Design and implement reward systems that facilitate the attraction, development, and retention of a flexible work force.
- Understand the laws affecting compensation and benefits practices.
- Design compensation structures that reflect job worth through job evaluation practices.
- Design and implement strategically aligned skill-based and merit systems that rely on effective and defensible performance evaluations.
- Design compensation and benefit systems for executives and global managers.
Prerequisite
- Prerequisite: MAN 3025.
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MAN 4720 Strategic Management |
3 |
MA |
Learning Objectives
- Describe the contents of a company’s strategic management audit report.
- Identify and assess the impact of opportunities and threats in a company’s environment, its industry, and its set of competitors.
- Identify and assess a company’s strengths and weaknesses, and match them with its opportunities and threats to suggest four alternative strategies.
- Identify, analyze, and synthesize data and information that supports company decision-making to improve customer satisfaction, and overall financial performance.
- Describe the generic and business-specific factors that reflect a company’s overall operational performance, and its performance in its business units and functional business areas including corporate and social responsibility.
Prerequisite
- Prerequisite: Completion of all core requirements. Must be taken in last academic semester of senior year.
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MAN 4320 Recruitment and Selection |
3 |
MA |
In-depth study of the personnel staffing function. Includes an analysis of objectives, techniques, and procedures for forecasting manpower needs, recruiting candidates, and selecting employees.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the personnel staffing function including both legal and practical issues in the employee selection and placement processes process
- Identify recruitment sources and techniques/strategies for design of effective recruitment ads using traditional and internet media
- Describe how to create a systematic manpower planning system using employment data and labor market data in spreadsheet /HRIS analyses
- Demonstrate understanding of the use of job descriptions to identify important job-related skills for particular occupations in a variety of public and private organizations
- Discuss how to screen applicants using application forms and resumes. Demonstrate interviewing skills using various in-person and distance/global techniques
- Provide an in-depth explanation of legal issues in personnel selection regarding discrimination, EEO compliance and creating fair and sustainable hiring protocols
- Discuss use of tests and other measurement methods to identify specific skills and abilities using legally sustainable methods
- Demonstrate understanding of the use of correlation/regression analysis to show reliability and validity of selection systems. Understand the different types of reliability and validity recognized in professional practice and in the legal arena.
- Identify specific legal and practical issues in employment contracts and job offer letters
- Demonstrate understanding of how to conduct a cost/benefit analysis to audit and determine the justification of recruitment, selection, and job orientation costs
Prerequisite
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- MAN 4301.
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MAN 4322 Human Resource Information Systems |
3 |
MA |
A survey of personnel reporting requirements; assessment of information needs; manpower planning; and development of integrated personnel systems.
Learning Objectives
- Describe considerations in evaluation, design, selection and use of human resource management systems.
- Explain the benefits and limitations of an Human Resource Information System (HRIS).
- Explain how HRIS are integrated with other HR systems.
- Identify relevant criteria based on organizational needs for evaluating packaged software systems.
- Identify current software packages that can replace manual practices in each of the major human resource management areas.
- Demonstrate the use of an HRIS software package.
- Identify steps required for implementing an HRIS.
- Explain how HRIS contributes to organizational success by furthering organizational objectives.
Prerequisite
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- MAN 4301.
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MAN 4350 Training and Development |
3 |
MA |
Overview of corporate training functions including needs analysis, training program/content development, training techniques and effective delivery systems. Management development and presentation skills are emphasized.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the contents of a company’s strategic management audit report.
- Identify and assess the impact of opportunities and threats in a company’s environment, its industry, and its set of competitors.
- Identify and assess a company’s strengths and weaknesses, and match them with its opportunities and threats to suggest four alternative strategies.
- Identify, analyze, and synthesize data and information that supports company decision-making to improve customer satisfaction, and overall financial performance.
- Describe the generic and business-specific factors that reflect a company’s overall operational performance, and its performance in its business units and functional business areas including corporate and social responsibility.
Prerequisite
- Prerequisite: MAN 4301.
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MAN 4102 Managing Diversity |
3 |
MA |
Examines how workforce diversity can lead to competitive advantage and ethical, fair-minded decision making. Includes topics of gender, race, ethnicity, and other areas of diversity. Covers perception and stereotyping, sexual harassment, the “glass ceiling,” and legal issues.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the contents of a company’s strategic management audit report.
- Identify and assess the impact of opportunities and threats in a company’s environment, its industry, and its set of competitors.
- Identify and assess a company’s strengths and weaknesses, and match them with its opportunities and threats to suggest four alternative strategies.
- Identify, analyze, and synthesize data and information that supports company decision-making to improve customer satisfaction, and overall financial performance.
- Describe the generic and business-specific factors that reflect a company’s overall operational performance, and its performance in its business units and functional business areas including corporate and social responsibility.
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