The human resource major provides 21st-century skills, knowledge, and understanding of human resource functions in private-or public-sector organizational settings. These functions include human resource planning; recruiting, selecting, and placing employees; orienting new employees; training employees in the context of their career development plans; developing and supporting performance appraisal systems; managing labor relations; managing compensation and benefit programs; and implementing personnel policies and procedures. The human resource management major prepares students for work in business administration and human resources. Through the proper selection of courses, the student can prepare for the examinations for Human Resource Professional, Senior Human Resource Professional, and International Human Resource Professional certification, which are offered by the Society of Human Resource Management. In addition to the focus on human resource functions, the major includes courses in management and organization theory, organizational behavior and development approaches, labor relations theory and practice, interpersonal skill development, and women's perspectives in management.
Objectives
The student who graduates with a major in human resource management will be able to:
Demonstrate effective human resource planning for technological innovation in a global environment.
Describe the importance of internal and external organizational environments and their interrelationships for human resource functions.
Explain the processes of job analysis, staffing, appraising and compensating, career training, and development.
Critically evaluate the use of performance appraisal systems and identify different performance appraisal systems.
Work as a team member to demonstrate cohesive team-management skills in decision making, communication, motivation, and interpersonal behavior by focusing on group dynamics that occur within an increasingly diverse workforce.
Discuss the history of union/management relations and associated major federal, state, and local legislation; executive orders; and court decisions.
Describe the interaction among management, labor, and the federal agencies.
Examine the processes and tools for bargaining, negotiating, and resolving disputes.
Demonstrate information literacy through the use of commonly accepted quantitative and qualitative analytical research methods to evaluate human resource initiatives and solve problems.
Develop effective written and oral communications consistent with the business and professional environment.
Apply knowledge, concepts, and principles to changes in human resource management practices and information technology areas (including the use of databases, spreadsheets, accounting software applications, e-commerce, virtual and knowledge management approaches, and strategic and decision-making tools to analyze problems and issues, develop business research, report key data, and recommend management strategy and action plans).
Interpret and apply human resource principles in a global setting.
Describe the history and development of theory and concepts in human resource management, management, employment law, strategic management, and related fields and how these theories and concepts can be applied in various situations.
Evaluate ethical, social, civic, cultural, and political issues as they relate to the environment of human resource management, organizations, diversity and human factors, operations, information systems, governmental regulations, and domestic and international ventures.
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