ORGL 524: Leadership & Human Resources

STATED OBJECTIVE:

The purpose of this course is to, through participation, gain a basic background in human resources as a profession. This knowledge can serve as the foundation for further leadership study or can assist anyone in a supervisory position which makes employment-related decisions.

The course challenges students to explore the changing role of the human resource leader in organizations. The growing emergence of the human resource leader as an organizational change agent examined as well as the skills necessary for success. Topics include policy and practice within organizations; selecting, training, motivating, evaluating, and compensating employees; labor relations; and applicable legislation.

IMPACT QUOTE:

“Human resource management is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and of attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns. Remember that truly global organizations find it easier to install global systems.
For example, truly global companies require their managers to work on global teams, and to identify, recruit, and place the employees they hire globally. As one Royal Dutch Shell manager put it, If you are truly global, then you are hiring here [the United States] people who are going to immediately go and work in the Hague, and vice versa. This global mind-set makes it easier for managers everywhere to accept the wisdom of having a standardized human resource management system” -- Gary Dessler, from Human Resources Management.

Competencies Gained:

This course is intended to introduce students to the concepts of human resources, as well as provide students with additional insight if they are currently working in organizations. There are many facets to human resources, and many of these are discussion topics in this course. Topics include policy and practice within organizations; selecting, training, motivating, evaluating, and compensating employees; labor relations; and applicable legislation. Special focus is given to organizational leadership.

Course Instructor:

Deborah Hedderly, Ph.D.

Reference Materials:

Human Resources Management, 13/E Gary Dessler, Florida International University; ISBN- 10: 013266821-1 ISBN-13: 978013266821-7; Publisher: Prentice Hall Copyright: 2013