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BUA 221
Human Resource Management
Credit Hours:  3
8 week format
Sample Course Schedule

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Is This Course for You?

 

Any company can become a great place to work. It doesn't happen by accident but is a clear choice of management to create a caring and cooperative, trusting and talented, workplace.

 

Is your company on the 100 Best Companies to Work for in America? Did you know that despite the tough economy, 59 of these companies actually added to their payroll in the last year? 

 

Wouldn't you want to work for a company who:

  • Make employees feel welcomed, valued, involved, and challenged?

  • Has a culture designed to increase employee productivity, satisfaction, and retention?

  • Attracts and hires the best candidates and doesn't resort to hiring the wrong ones?

  • Handles tough issues like performance problems, email usage, and sexual harassment legally, directly, and sensitively?

Some of the qualities to evaluate a good company are social responsibility, quality of management, quality of product/services/technology, employee talent, and use of company assets.

 

Human resources is entrusted with the well-being of the company's most valuable resource: people. So this is the right course if you ever intend to work somewhere, someday!

 

Prerequisite: None

For all distance learning courses you will need the following skills:

  • If you do not have Word for Windows, you must know how to save documents in .rtf format (Rich Text Format).  Click here for a Tutorial
  • You must know how to navigate the Internet and have basic computer skills.  These are not courses to teach anyone how to use a computer.
  • You must have proficiency in email, including sending documents and attachments.
  • You must have the ability to allocate time efficiently.  Please allow at least 3 hours for every credit hour taken.

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Course Specific Information
 

This is a completely 'virtual' course. You do not have to make any trips to campus or have exams proctored.  The entire course is posted on the first day of class including assignments and due dates. 
 

Students will be expected to:

  • Be a self-motivated learner

  • Read and write at the college-level

  • Not procrastinate!

What Students Tell Their Friends About This Course:

  1. The announcements and course materials are very entertaining and interesting. I appreciate the expertise and helpfulness of the instructor.  She won't do the work for you, and she won't let you use her to make it easier for you, but she will help you as much as you want to help yourself.
     
  2. You can work at your own pace. I like being able to log on at any time of day or night. You can study when you have the time and then take the quiz any time during the week it is due.
     
  3. I appreciate all aspects of this course; read everything that is posted as the tips to be successful are posted. I really like the discussion boards most of all, but to do well you need to read the Discussion Board Guidelines and follow them.
     
  4. I like how the grades are all posted and current. It isn't hard to talk to this professor. It seems as though I always get a return email in just hours. Announcements that she posts are funny at times and on a personal level just like in a classroom setting.
     
  5. I like the flexibility. I do most of my studying on the weekends or after my kids go to bed.
     
  6. You have to be focused to take this course, since you can not turn in late work. If you want to, you can finish this course faster then it's supposed to be done, which is nice.  For future students: ask if you do not understand something.
     
  7. STUDY. This course is not a piece of cake just because you are doing it at your pace and in your own location. You have to have good time management skills. Don't get behind; this class moves quickly and you can't afford to lose track of time when you take this class.
     
  8. This course takes time and just because it's online doesn't mean you don't have to study, that just means you have to study a different way than if you were taking the course in a face-to-face class. I would also suggest if you are not good at self taught classes then you should take the class in a regular classroom setting.
     
  9. You have to think. You can't hide out in here. The instructor has had lots of experience in the business world and she makes the course interesting; you need to learn to think from a human resource perspective which means you have to learn the details. Just eliminating one word from a document can turn a good situation into a potential lawsuit!
     
  10. You don't have to come to campus for anything; the only thing with deadlines are the assignments and you know those assignments and dates on the first day of class.