2003-2005 - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

MGMT 650 Research for Strategic
Human Resource Management
Decisions (3) Merhods and rools used in
business research. Topics include: locaring
sources of srraregic human resource managemenr
informarion; developing a research
projecr; using rhe compurer ro process dara;
and organizing and presenring srraregic
human resource managemenr reporrs.
Prerequisite: OPRE 504 or equivalent.
MGMT 710 Human Resource
Management (3) Covers procedures and
problems associared wirh employee relarions
in borh privare and public secrors
from a policy perspecrive. Issues wirhin rhe
manager-employee-union relarionship
involving human resource planning,
recruiring, selecrion, and urilizarion are
examined. Discusses legal, inrernarional,
work force diversiry and safery aspens.
Prerequisite: MGMT 504 or equivalent.
MGMT 712 Employment Law and the
Human Resource Manager (3)
Employmenr law as ir applies ro managemenr
decisions in recruiunenr and promotion
as well as in rerms of managemenr's
responsibiliry ro comply wirh federal laws.
Topics include legal issues in employmenr
law and rhe legal consequences of non-compliance;
rhe regularory model ofgovernmenr
conrrol over rhe employmenr relarionship;
equal employmenr opporruniry; safery and
healrh regulations; Americans wirh
Disabiliries Acr; pay and benehrs law;
Employee Retiremenr Income Securiry Acr;
civil righrs ofemployees (privacy and wrongful
discharge); Family Leave Acr; inrernarional
comparisons; and emerging regularory
issues. Prerequisite: MGMT504.
MGMT 715 Compensation, Evaluation
and Motivation (3) Managemenr rechniques
applicable ro mainraining and developing
producriviry and job sarisfacrion
among employees. Examines wage and
salary adminisrrarion decisions and rheir
implicarions in-deprh. Prerequisite:
MGMT504.
MGMT 720 Labor Management
Relations (3) An inrroducrion ro labor
relarions sysrems: organizarional rechniques
and srraregies of unions and managemenr;
legal consrrainrs relarive ro organizarions;
rhe negoriarion process; rhe negoriarion
and scope of conrracrs; rhe major subsranrive
issues in collecrive bargaining; and conflicr
resolurion rhrough grievance and
arbirrarion. Employee-managemenr relarions
in union and nonunion environmenrs
are comrasred. Prerequisite: MGMT 504.
MGMT 725 Conflict Management and
Dispute Resolution in the Workplace (3)
The crirical issues in conflicr, including
workplace violence, culrural diversiry, and
changes in rhe organizarion ofwork.
Crearive approaches ro inrra- and inrerorganizarional
dispure resolurion are
explored. Provides opporruniries ro inrerface
wirh experrs, ro engage in challenging
experienrial exercises, and ro share problem-solving
approaches. Prerequisite:
MGMT504.
MGMT 740 Seminar in Service
Operations (3) The problems associared
wirh rhe managemenr ofservice organizarions.
Analyzes special characrerisrics of
such organizarions and rheir managerial
implicarions. Discusses operarions managemem
rools, rechniques, and conceprs available
ro service organizarions. Topics
include: capaciry managemenr, locarion
choice, service flow analysis, producriviry,
and operarions conrrol. Theorerical discussions
are supplemenred wirh rhe operarions
of banks, hospirals, educarional insrirurions,
and orher service organizarions.
Prerequisite: prior or current enrollment in
MGMT 506 or its equivalent.
MGMT 750 Manufacturing
Management (3) An inregraring and
srraregic srudy ofalrernare managemenr
principles and approaches. Topics include
Zero Invenrory Oapan), Group Technology
(Russia), Flexible Manufacruring (USA),
Synchronous Manufacruring (Israel),
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