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2013-2014 Official General Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Official General Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BUS 248 - Human Resource Management


Acquisition, development, maintenance, and utilization of a workforce within an organization.  Job analysis, recruitment and selection, training and development, equal opportunity law, wage/benefit administration, and union-management relations are focus areas of this course.  Other timely topics such as sexual harrassment and the current regulatory environment are examined as circumstances dictate.  Lecture, cases, discussion.

Credits: 3
Hours
3 Class Hours
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

1.  Explain the role of human resource activities within a business.
2.  Explain how jobs are created and evolve.
3.  Analyze and employ the proper policies concerning morale, employee relations as they relate to personnel.
4.  Analyze and employ beneficial union-management relations.
5.  Employ within a personnel program meaningful:
     a.  recruitment procedures
     b.  selection processes
     c.  training and development programs
     d.  compensation systems
     e.  benefit programs
6.  Analyze group dynamics and organizational communication policies as they relate to HR activities.