MNGT 350 Applied Human Resource Development (5 credits)
Prerequisite At least a junior standing in a baccalaureate program.
Course Description
This course provides students with fundamentals of human resource development, especially in the context of industry trends and demographic shifts. It examines the strategic role of the human resource department and the development of organizational strategic planning as well as day-to-day operations. Topics are discussed in the context of legal, ethical, political, and cultural considerations.
Course Content
A. Labor Trends B. Human Behavior Principles C. Human Resource Management Strategies D. Motivational Principles & Practices E. Systems Theory F. Analytical & Evaluation Tools G. Training Programs H. Human Development Plan
Student Outcomes
1. Apply systems theory and economic principles to analyze strategic HR development practices in global and culturally complex organizational environments.
2. Evaluate training and development needs and design an evidence-based training program using HRD theory, motivational strategies, and inclusive leadership practices.
3. Assess the effectiveness of HR strategies related to employee behavior, organizational culture, and regulatory compliance, including benefits administration.
4. Analyze the impact of labor movements and workforce trends on modern HR operations at both the national and international levels
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes
Creativity and Innovation: Maintain an open, adaptive, and innovative mindset to analyze and evaluate ideas, learn from mistakes, and continuously create value.
Legal and Ethical Practice: Use ethical and legal practices in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational processes and products.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
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
The below instructional methods may be online or in-person: A. Class Discussions B. Exams and Quizzes C. Case Study D. Journal E. Peer Evaluation F. Inquiry/Project-Based Learning (Individual or Team-Based) G. Analytical Reports H. Presentations I. Simulations J. Business Research K. Concept Maps L. Games
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