The breadth and depth of your studies will prepare you well for a career in business or for graduate study. Managing Human Resources for Competitive Advantage , covering topics such as strategic human resource management, labor relations, recruiting, selection, training, performance evaluation, and compensation. Action Learning Module , which combines a structured and supervised job experience with simultaneous coursework. Each student develops specific and individualized goals in cooperation with a work supervisor and the faculty member teaching the class. These are integrated with learning objectives and in-class work.
Students make presentations throughout the semester using their work experiences as living cases.
Course readings offer relevant theories that students can appraise and modify using the concrete situations they encounter in business. The faculty involved in the program have the academic and practical experience necessary to deal with the theoretical and real-world aspects of management. The Dolan School of Business regularly invites businesspeople to evaluate the effectiveness of its preparation of students, and surveys alumni and students for other ideas that lead to continuous improvements. Your program will be grounded in job experience with an emphasis on case studies, and research projects from which you will gain a broad understanding of managerial effectiveness and the role of business in society. Through this combination of theory and hands-on experience you will learn practical lessons and develop an appreciation for the dilemmas and paradoxes of organizational life.