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Human Resources Management

Human resources management (HRM) focuses on the effective utilization of people at work. Traditionally, the major areas of HRM include employee relations, recruitment, selection, compensation, and training. Although expertise in these areas is necessary, major changes in the field have led to a more strategic role for the human resources professional. Today, human resource managers must be skilled in job and organizational design, innovative career planning, and leading effective internal change.

The successful management of human resources calls for a partnership among human resources professionals, labor relations negotiators, wage and salary analysts, and operating line managers in a company's functional areas (marketing, finance, and production). With the challenges brought about by an increasingly diverse workforce and rapid international expansion, however, the importance of HRM has increased dramatically in recent years. HRM professionals now oversee organizational compliance with equal-opportunity laws, institute affirmative action procedures, and design or manage participative work systems.

Course work focuses on a wide range of issues that affect human resources management: labor issues, negotiating strategies, psychological principles underlying organizational and human behavior, job enrichment, and organizational development activities. See course descriptions for more information.

Five-Year Bachelor of Science Curriculum

Quarters 1­3	See introduction.
Quarter 4	ACC 1111, Financial Accounting; MSC 1200, Business Statistics 1; and two nonbusiness electives.
Quarter 5	ACC 1112, Managerial Accounting; MSC 1201, Business Statistics 2; MKT 1435, Introduction to Marketing; and one open elective.
Quarter 6	FIN 1438, Principles of Finance 1; HRM 1433, Organizational Behavior and Design; and MSC 1301, Management Information Systems.
Quarter 7	FIN 1439, Principles of Finance 2; HRM 1332, Introduction to Human Resource Management; one open elective; and one nonbusiness elective.
Quarter 8	HRM 1345, Managing Employee Relations; HRM 1349, Assessment of Prospective Employees; MSC 1441, Operations Management; and one open elective.
Quarter 9	MGT 1446, Managing Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues; ENG 1381, Writing for Professions; and two open electives.
Quarter 10	HRM 1348, Reward Systems; MGT 1450, Business Policy; one human resources management elective; and one open elective.
Quarter 11	One nonbusiness elective; one human resources management elective; and two open electives.
Four-Year Bachelor of Science Curriculum
Quarters 1­5	See introduction.
Quarter 6	FIN 1438, Principles of Finance 1; MSC 1441, Operations Management; HRM 1433, Organizational Behavior and Design.
Quarter 7	HRM 1345, Managing Employee Relations; FIN 1439, Principles of Finance 2; ENG 1381, Writing for Professions; and two open electives.
Quarter 8	HRM 1332, Introduction to Human Resources Management; MGT 1446, Managing Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues; one human resources management elective; and one open elective.
Quarter 9	HRM 1348, Reward Systems; HRM 1349, Selection and Assessment; MGT 1450, Business Policy; and two open electives.
Quarter 10	One human resources management elective and three open electives.

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