This capstone course, which must be taken as the final course in the human resource management concentration of the business studies major, examines contemporary issues in human resource management resulting from new and changing legislation, demands of the work place, and emerging quality of work and life trends.
Emphasis is placed on software applications.
The international aspects of human resource management are also studied. To examine the Human Resource Function past, present, and future through readings and discussion. To determine effective methods of managing an organizations human capital given current legal, cultural, and economic constraints. To develop a real world understanding of the HR function through discussion, exercises, assignments and writing. To ask why certain methodologies should be used or discarded and not blindly accept current practices simply because they have been used in the past.