Master of Human Resource Management

Strategic Management of Organizational Behavior is designed to form managers that will understand both group and individual performance activity within an organization, domestic or global, and enhance organizational cultures to create positive job structure, performance, communication, motivation, and leadership. The manager, through work done by others, allocates resources, directs activities of others, and makes decisions to attain organizational goals. This course provides an advanced examination of organizational behavior with an emphasis placed on employee training and retention issues. A case study approach is used as part of this study of advanced management techniques (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

This course focuses on the applicability of communication as an art, theory, science, and
technology in the business field. Emphasis is placed on the nonverbal aspects of business
communication. Significant components of verbal communication in the business discipline are addressed. Attentiveness is given to the ethical objectives of communicating in the managerial environment. Essential techniques and skills needed to be an effective supervisor are identified. Comprehensive discussions on business communication topics are covered in this course that will assist students with transitioning into their managerial roles: interpersonal communication, public speaking, ethics, written correspondence, interviews, research,
leadership, and small group communication (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

Business Statistics is the science of good decision making in the face of uncertainty through the collection, classification, summary, organization, analysis and interpretation of two categories of data: descriptive and inferential. It is used in financial analysis, production and operations in domestic and international business. Through the use of probability, sampling, binomial and normal distributions, interpretation of estimate, confidence intervals, correlations techniques, analysis of variance, etc., business statistics is used to make good and sound decisions for a business. This course discusses descriptive and inferential statistics used to solve complex problems in business and management (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

A course which presents economic analysis tools that can be used by managers to make
increasingly difficult and complex business decisions and managerial decisions. Concepts
discussed include forecasting, regression modeling, forecasting, cost analysis, and elasticity.
Case studies are used to reinforce principles discussed in class. Also presented are game
theory, international topics and e-commerce issues (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

This course examines the concepts, issues, and practices that compromise the core of organizational leadership from a global perspective. It will focus on managerial functions to maximize efficiency to achieve expected organizational goals in domestic and international markets (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

Portfolio Management is the decision making process implemented in investment strategy and day to day management of trading portfolios. The portfolio manager is responsible for domestic and/or international investment mix and policy, matching investments to objectives, asset allocation for individuals and institutions, and examining risk against performance, requiring the balancing of debt vs. equity, growth vs. safety, domestic vs. international, and other tradeoffs while optimizing return on investment. This course provides a study of securities and markets; analysis of several categories of corporate securities, public securities, and other investments; types of risks and taxes that effect investment policy, timing, selection, and
investment values from an organizational and planning perspective (Offered in Spanish for
online programs).

Business Statistics is the science of good decision making in the face of uncertainty through the collection, classification, summary, organization, analysis and interpretation of two
categories of data: descriptive and inferential. It is used in financial analysis, production and
operations in domestic and international business. Through the use of probability, sampling, binomial and normal distributions, interpretation of estimate, confidence intervals, correlations techniques, analysis of variance, etc., business statistics is used to make good and sound decisions for a business. This course discusses descriptive and inferential statistics used to solve complex problems in business and management (Offered in Spanish for online
programs).

Strategic Management of Organizational Behavior is designed to form managers that will
understand both group and individual performance activity within an organization, domestic or global, and enhance organizational cultures to create positive job structure, performance, communication, motivation, and leadership. The manager, through work done by others, allocates resources, directs activities of others, and makes decisions to attain organizational goals. This course provides an advanced examination of organizational behavior with an emphasis placed on employee training and retention issues. A case study approach is used as part of this study of advanced management techniques (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

This course examines the concepts, issues, and practices that compromise the core of organizational leadership from a global perspective. It will focus on managerial functions to maximize efficiency to achieve expected organizational goals in domestic and international markets (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

A study of the field of operations in the service industry and in manufacturing, this course
introduces concepts, techniques and administration in a domestic and global environment needed to increase efficiencies in the conversion of materials and labor into goods and services for maximizing profit. The operations manager plans, organizes, coordinates and controls the resources used to produce goods and services, and directs the associated supply chains and logistics. Topics discussed also include product design and manufacturing, service design, capacity and location decision making (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

A study of organizational policies and procedures, nondiscrimination/affirmative action, recruitment, hiring, termination, compensation, supervision, employment conditions, and other policy concerns at the managerial level. This course is designed to provide students with hands-on experience in creating the tools and policies necessary for effective human resource management functions in a business setting. Students develop policies, manuals, and forms for a hypothetical start-up business, and present their human resource management strategic plan to management (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

This Diversity in the Workplace course will prepare students to manage in a diverse workplace with an emphasis on practical, experiential classroom activities designed to help students understand the range of cultural behaviors and expectations found in the workplace. Students will learn the changing composition of a multicultural workforce, recognize, and address organizational problems that can obstruct the full participation of many diverse employees and learn about workplace environments that value the creativity and new opportunities inherent of a diverse workplace. Leadership skills and effective communications necessary to manage a diverse workforce will be developed. Students will learn to value organizational differences and gain an increased understanding of similarities, as well as differences among people, and 100 learn the link between the issues being discussed in the workplace, as well as the theories behind the arguments (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

A management-oriented study of the creation of staff development strategies; Topics discussed include fragmented efforts, comprehensive staff development plans, the identification of training needs and training strategies (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

A study of employment law focusing on legal principles with an emphasis on discrimination and employment regulation. Individual cases and case law will be discussed and analyzed. The course provides students with an understanding of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) legislation, and other federal laws relating to employment and the impact of these laws on an organization. Students will also study the emerging legal issues facing today’s human resource departments. The course will also define the needs for human resource policies, and the development of a variety of policies (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

A study of compensation practices, the context of compensation practice, and the criteria used to compensate employees, compensation system design issues, and employee benefits as incentives and as retention tools (Offered in Spanish for online programs).

A study of compensation practices, the context of compensation practice, and the criteria used to compensate employees, compensation system design issues, and employee benefits as incentives and as retention tools (Offered in Spanish for online programs).