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    Aug 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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MNGT 295 Human Resource Management (5 credits)



Course Description
Principles, methods, and procedures in human resource management including job analysis, description and classification, employee morale and motivation, labor turnover, selection and placement, rating and promotion, and compensation in conjunction with current government regulations.

Course Content
A. Affirmative action implementation
B. Human resource terminology
C. Individual & organizational performance
D. Equal employment
E. Workplace safety/health
F. Recruiting & selection of employees
G. Responsibilities in HR
H. Union relations
I. Training & development of employees
J. Performance Appraisals
L. Employee Rights

Student Outcomes
Describe the functional duties and responsibilities of human resources. Explain fundamental human resource concepts and legal aspects that apply to business activities, employment functions, and labor relations. Summarize how to implement successful training and development programs. Evaluate gaps in employee performance and address strategies for motivating employees. Reflect on how one’s own positionality and biases impact the implementation of human resource management policies and practices.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes: Communicate and resolve conflict respectfully and effectively while demonstrating the skill to offer and receive feedback. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
A. Objective exam
B. Essay exam
C. Project - individual or group
D. Paper
E. Portfolio
F. Case study
G Simulation - role play or learning lab
H.Self-evaluation
I. Peer-evaluation
J. Instructor observation
K.Oral presentation



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