Human Resource Management | 3 Credits

Students will learn about the role of the human resource management within organizations. Upon completing this project, students will understand how human resource management broadly contributes to organizational strategy, the difference between strategic and transactional human resource management, and how the human resource management function provides support to other business areas. Students will also learn basic skills in the human resource management functional areas of job analysis, recruitment, selection, training, development, compensation, employee relations, employment/labor law, ethics, and performance management.

Required text: Noe, R., Hollenbeck, J., Gerhart., and Wright, P. (2022). The Fundamental of Human Resource Management – 9thEdition (Links to an external site.). McGraw Hill.
ISBN: 9781264185160 (ebook)
ISBN: 9781264131143 (hardcover)

Note: This text can be rented as an eBook for 180 days for $50 through McGraw Hill. (Links to an external site.)

• Describe the role of human resource management within organizations.
• Evaluate practices and procedures in human resource functional areas to meet organizational goals.
• Apply different types of performance management techniques based on situational context.
• Analyze and interpret human resource metrics across functional areas.
• Describe the implications of employment and labor law.
• Apply ethical practices related to human resource management.