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Human Resources Management
For courses numbered 098, 198, 298, see “Topic Courses” on page 292
HRS 101 Introduction to Human Resources Management
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Practical applications for success in personnel management. Includes human resources management in perspective,
meeting requirements, the challenge, function/environment, recruitment, compensation, incentive plans, training and
development, and labor relations.
Offered: Fall.
HRS 102 Human Resource Law
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Legal issues associated with human resources management. Includes hiring, personnel practices, wages and hours, taxes
employee benefits, family and medical leave, health and safety, illegal discrimination, workers with disabilities, and
termination. May also include issues associated with independent contractors, unions, and lawyers and legal research.
Offered: Fall.
HRS 103 Benefits and Compensation
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Study of benefits and compensation management. Includes strategic compensation planning, components of the wage
mix, job evaluation systems, the compensation structure, governmental regulation of compensation, significant
compensation issues, employee benefits programs, employee benefits required by law, discretionary major employee
benefits, employee services, reasons and requirements for incentive plans, setting performance measures, administering
incentive plans, incentive for non-management employees, incentive for management employees, incentives for executive
employees, and gain-sharing incentive plans.
Offered: Fall.
HRS 104 Job Requirements, Recruitment, and Personnel Selection
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Concepts, techniques, and regulation that apply to job requirements, recruitment, and personnel selection. Includes
relationships of job requirements and HRS functions, job analysis, job design, matching people and jobs, sources of
information about job candidates, employment tests, the employment interview, and reaching a selection decision.
Offered: Spring.
HRS 105 Training and Development
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to training, career development, and appraising and improving performance. Includes the scope of training,
conducting the needs assessment, designing the training program, implementing the training program, evaluating the
training program, special topics in training and development, elements of career development programs, career
development and management succession, career development for a diverse workforce, personal career development,
performance appraisal programs, developing an effective appraisal program, performance appraisal methods, and
appraisal interview.
Offered: Spring.
HRS 106 Labor Relations
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Exploration of issues in the area of labor relations. Includes employee rights, disciplinary policies and procedures,
appealing disciplinary actions, organizational ethics in employee relations, government regulation of labor relations, the
labor relations process, structures, functions, and leadership of labor unions, labor relations in the public sector,
contemporary challenges to labor organizations, the bargaining process, trends in collective bargaining, the labor
agreement, and administration of the labor agreement.
Offered: Spring.
Humanities
For courses numbered 098, 198, 298, see “Topic Courses” on page 292
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT — HUMANITIES
HUM 131 Mythology
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Myths, legends, and folktales of the Greeks and Romans. Includes basic concepts of myths, myths of the Greeks and
Romans, major Greek divinities and their Roman counterparts, stories about the major divinities, artistic representation of
myths, effects of ancient myths on western literary movement, similarities and differences between major mythic systems,
and anthropological and psychological approaches to mythic systems. Also includes a humanistic approach to the study of
Greek and Roman sacred narratives, stories derived from oral traditions, and cultural events, which invite symbolic analysis.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
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