The M.H.R.M. degree is designed so that students may learn how organizations:
1. design HRM systems to build a competent, committed workforce, and a flexible, integrated, cost-effective organization;
2. assess the effects of HRM policies and systems on organizational performance;
3. apply financial analysis, research methods, and software to the HRM decision process;
4.
combine work design, measurement, staffing, development, rewards, and
governance systems into an integrated HRM system strategically linked
to the business plan.
To accomplish these goals, students must complete:
12 credits of required courses in HR strategy,
9 credits of required courses in HR decision tools,
12 credits of required courses in HR applications,
9 credits of required courses in HR contexts, and
6 credits of elective course work.
Altogether, students acquire a total of 48 credits to earn the degree.
Required HR Strategy Courses (12 Credits)
38:533:580 HR Strategy I: Introduction (3)
38:533:590 HR Strategy II: Business Functional Areas (3)
38:533:680 HR Strategy III: Measurement Issues (3)
38:533:690 HR Strategy IV: Designing and Implementing Human Capital Strategies in an Era of Change (3)
Required HR Decision Tools Courses (9 Credits)
38:533:540 HR Decision Making: Financial Decisions (3)
38:533:541 HR Decision Making: Accessing Data for Decisions (3)
38:533:542 HR Decision Making: Data-Based Decisions (3)
Required HR Applications Courses (12 Credits)
38:533:533 Managing Workforce Flow (3)
38:533:634 Developing Human Capital (3)
38:533:635 Managing Rewards Systems (3)
38:533:636 Designing Work and Governance Systems (3)
Required HR Contexts Courses (9 Credits)
38:533:565 Economics and Demographics of Labor Markets (3)
38:533:566 Employment Law (3)
38:533:665 Managing the Global Workforce (3)
Recommended Elective Courses (6 Credits)
38:533:610 Selected Problems: Development and Management of Teams (3)
38:533:610 Selected Problems: Distance Learning (3)
38:533:610 Selected Problems: Internal Consulting Skills (3)
38:533:685 Creating and Managing Organizational Change (3)
38:578:___ M.L.E.R. courses (3)
38:578:560 Collective Bargaining (3)
22:620:___ M.B.A. courses (3)
Students
with prior course work may waive as many as 18 credits for selected
required courses if they have taken substantially the same courses
elsewhere. Students wishing to waive 38:533:542 HR Decision Making:
Data-Based Decisions are required to take an examination. Credits from
relevant graduate-level courses also may be transferred to a student's
program of study. In no case, however, will more than 18 credits be
transferred or waived.