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HRM 765: Developing World Class
Human Resources
3 credits
Examines the management of human resources in a multinational context. Emphasizes the strategic role of human resource management and focuses on changing traditional human resources practices to meet the needs of a global organization. The course explores how 'best in class' human resources practices can improve an organization's bottom line.
Learning Goals
Course Goals: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:  Identify the advantages of using a strategic approach to human resource management. Understand and explain the relationships among corporate, business, and human strategies and distinguish between congruent and incongruent strategies. Describe alternative approaches to staffing a multinational organization and list the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Identify the problems related to performance management and explain how to minimize these problems. Explain how performance should be evaluated in a global setting. Describe the roles of human resources and management in training and development efforts. Identify various approaches to training and when they may or may not be relevant.  Develop a basic understanding of compensation in domestic and global contexts. Develop a basic understanding of labor relations in domestic and global contexts. For each area of human resource activity,  Distinguish between practices and processes that add value to the organization and those that don’t. Diagnosis factors contributing to deficiencies (especially whether design or implementation).  Prescribe alternatives that could increase the value added. Gain an in depth understanding of one aspect of the human resource function (including familiarity with the nature of the evidence or fact-based research related to it).
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course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of
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specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start
of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown
here.
Sections Offered: Fall 2024 |
| Developing World Class Human Resources |
| 0208-765-001 |
M. Fogel |
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Tue |
8:00 pm - 9:50 pm |
GC - NEX 155 |
3 |
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Sections Offered: Spring 2024 |
| Developing World Class Human Resources |
| 0208-765-001 |
R. Abdallah Yassine |
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Tue |
6:00 pm - 7:50 pm |
GC - HHE 217 |
3 |
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