Bachelor Degree in Business Administration Online, Human Resources - Courses

Bachelor’s or Upper-Level Concentration in Human Resources Coursework

Organizational Behavior

This course introduces students to many of the basic principles of human behavior that effective managers use when managing individuals and groups in organizations. Special attention is focused on theories relating to individual differences in abilities and attitudes, attribution, motivation, group dynamics, power and politics, leadership, conflict resolution, organizational culture, and organizational structure and design.

Human Resource Management

This course provides a comprehensive overview of personnel policy development focusing on the interdependence of personnel and operating functions. Students will analyze personnel recruitment, training and development, compensation, maintenance and retention with particular attention to how these functions contribute to organizational, societal, and individual goals.

Human Resource Recruitment and Selection

 This course introduces students to the basic principles and techniques of human resources recruitment and selection in the workplace. Students will be introduced to basic theories and strategies utilized in staffing, planning, recruitment, and selection. Topics covered will include job analysis, recruitment, selection, and assessment of job performance.

Compensation Administration

This course addresses the use of both tangible and intangible compensation in motivating and rewarding employee performance. Topics will include job analysis, job description, and job evaluation on the basis of compensable factors, as well as best practices for designing an equitable pay structure. Students will also analyze the influence of unions and government in determining the compensation of the labor force, including compensation of both hourly workers and managerial employees.

Training and Development

This course focuses on the increasingly important role of training and development within the human resources function. The impact of rapidly changing technology on job design will be addressed along with the increasing relevance and importance of learning- and knowledge-based organizations.

Labor Relations Management

This course addresses and examines legislation concerning labor-management relations. Special attention is focused on contract negotiations, contract administration, and the creative resolution of employee-management differences in the context of a formal contract. The general course context is based on employee relations outside of a negotiated agreement.