This course examines the problems of managing a business enterprise which spans international boundaries. Students will develop an understanding of the political, social, economic, and technological factors driving globalization and will consider the impact of these forces on competition, markets, industry structure, and organization.
A critical examination of behavior and performance within organizations and between organizations. Special attention is paid to the problem of performance at the individual, group, and formal organizational level.
An action learning course devoted to developing the project management and business process analysis skills necessary to diagnose and solve real-world business problems.
This course walks a student through the process of acquiring [planning, recruiting,
assessing/selecting, hiring, and onboarding] talent for an organization.
This course walks a student through the process of managing talent within an organization. Topics discussed in detail include the performance appraisal and management process, employee development, managing employee turnover, and compensation systems and programs.
This course is designed to provide a survey of the current employment laws in the United States. The course will cover legal perspectives in staffing, compensation, benefits, safety and health, and employment discrimination.
With the increasing amount of information available in organizations today, talent and business decisions and recommendations need to be data-driven and evidence-based.
This course will introduce topics and analytical techniques to leverage people-related data into organizational and human resources (HR) insights.
HR is a significant contributor to an organization's success by maintaining and organizing the workforce or human capital, deliver HR services, and ultimately help carry out essential business strategies. This course will go beyond technical aspects of HR and provide an introduction to how HR can strategically manage people as business resources to align with organizational goals and strategies to provide a competitive advantage for businesses.
Leading, managing, and participating in change is a business reality that requires self-awareness and accurate organization assessment skills to be effective. This course begins with understanding core organizational change considerations and how you process and set up change conditions.
Understanding how behaviors, policies, and systems in organizations, specifically HR, can impact employees, teams, organizational effectiveness, and industry competitiveness requires methodologically rigorous research. This course will be an overview of a wide variety of methodological and analytical topics in organizational and HR research.
This course is about social network analysis in organizational settings; it is designed to help students assess, diagnose, analyze, and manage organizational networks. Topics include mapping organizational networks (such as the pattern of friendships), detecting communities or cliques, assessing individuals’ centrality, collecting network data, and optimizing team structures.
Described as "the company behind the chart", social networks in organizations provide unique insight into how work gets done in organizations, who gets ahead, and why some policies thrive while others are doomed to fail. This course is designed to provide an in-depth look at how workplace relationships are embedded in virtually all elements of human resource management.
The Capstone Consulting course is the culminating experience of the Gatton graduate HR programs. It provides students with a framework to apply the HR knowledge, skills and competencies gained from their coursework to complex real-world organizational challenges.
In this experiential course, students will learn about current concepts and research in leadership, as well as encounter opportunities to gain deeper personal insight and identify their current strengths and developmental opportunities toward becoming the leader they wish to be in their future.
Strategic management examines the challenges and opportunities of the competitive marketplace from the perspective of an organization’s top management team who, after thorough analysis, must decide on and execute a course of action involving a set of strategic and tactical competitive moves.
This course requires student project teams to bring together all of their experiences and learned functional/analytical skills to analyze, seize, and respond to organizational challenges and opportunities using hands-on exercises and simulations and consulting-like projects.
Special Topics in Management: Coaching for Intentional Change. In this experiential course, students will work on assessing and developing into the types of coaches they want to be in the future.
