BUS 2010 - Introduction to Human Resources
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course addresses the key concepts, common practices, major roles and functions associated with the discipline of Human Resource Management. Students will analyze the role of human resource management as it contributes to an organization’s strategic objectives. Major topics include job analysis and evaluation, recruitment, staffing and selection, compensation, training and development, labor relations, occupational health and safety, onboarding, and other associated activities.
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Demonstrate effective communication, in written and spoken form, and critical-thinking skills.
- Use established techniques to perform the critical analysis of information and propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis.
- Demonstrate teamwork skills in conjunction with problem-solving, decision-making, critical-thinking, and other transferable skills necessary for employment.
- Examine organizational behavior theories as they relate to performance enhancement, goal setting, motivation, learning and change.
- Differentiate between the three major roles of human resources: operational, administrative, and strategic.
- Characterize the contrasted approaches for recruitment, selection, orientation, and appraisal of staff.
- Assess training requirements for selected job classes and recommend appropriate training programs.
- Outline and compare key labor relations issues, practices, and processes within selected U.S. industries.
- Identify individual sources of conflict and develop a process for their management: grievance, discipline, and dismissal.
- Analyze costs and benefits of human resource management practices.
- Discuss workplace health and safety programs and the roles of the employer and the employee in enforcing health and safety policies and procedures.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Current need and role for human resource management
- Responsibilities of major players in unionized or non-unionized organizations: executive management, HRM specialists, management, employees
- Human resource planning: labor markets, job design, job analysis, training, conflict
- Development of personnel: organizational climate, orientation, training, development
- Performance management: motivation, managerial controls, assessment, feedback
- Compensation and recognition: benefits, services, incentives, rewards
- Recruitment and selection: strategies, process, legalities
- Workplace safety and diversity: OSHA, human rights
- Labor-Management relations: history, issues and trends, strategies
Credit for Prior Learning Options
Course-Specific Exam
Credit for Prior Learning Option Procedure(s)
Upon request, an instructor of the course, working in consultation with a business division teaching peer, will develop and administer an appropriate examination.
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