Summer 2021

Explores the strategic role that human resources management plays in providing organizations with sustained competitive advantages by unlocking the productive potential of employees human and social capital.

Prepares students to create, foster, and manage organizations in which people thrive and perform at their best in order to retain talent and reduce costs in a sustainable way.

Focuses on developing the critical social intelligence skills needed to lead people and change through increased self-awareness, understanding of interpersonal differences, and greater influence.

Equips students with a deeper understanding of how to design and develop organizations to increase performance and effectiveness and includes sections on strategy, work, and management processes.

Examines talent management processes that impact employee experience and engagement and explores ways to improve data driven decision making processes including workforce and succession planning.

Provides a comprehensive look at the employee rewards strategies that human resource practitioners promote and manage including compensation, performance management, benefits, and non-monetary rewards.

Prepares students to identify, design, and implement effective learning and development interventions and strategies that drive results and enhance organizational competitiveness.

Applies practical approaches to building positive employee and labor relations and solving related problems through increased employee motivation, effectiveness, and retention.

Examines and emphasizes strategies and techniques to enable improved organizational and human capital decisions by directing the organizational analytics for more actionable insights.

Analyzes global diversity in todays environment, fostering a broad understanding of diversity and inclusion and the impact of diversity, inclusion, and inclusive behaviors on organizations.

Identifies the common challenges in organizational change management and explores the limitations and opportunities of different models of organizational change.

Explores the forces and emerging trends that are reshaping work, the workforce and workplace and how to address these transformational changes and be effective as a Human Resources leader.