GREAT BASIN COLLEGE
COURSE SYLLABUS
MGT 283 Intro Human Resource Management
Fall 2015, 3 Credits
Instructor:
Hours:
Classroom:
Textbook:
La Fleur, MBA
Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. 6:30am-5pm Unit 6
Education Building Multi Purpose Room
Human Resource Management Fourteenth Ed. (Mathis, Jackson and Valentine)
Course Description:
This course will outline human resource management Duties and responsibilities of personnel management.
Areas covered include employee needs, human relationships, orienting and training employees, benefit
programs, and economics of supervision.
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to give the students an introduction to the basic principles of human resource
management. Students will learn the fundamentals of human resource planning and retention, risk management
and worker protection along with employee rights and responsibilities as it relates to management. Students will
learn through practical application based principles and real-world examples to further their understanding of
human resource management.
Learner Outcomes and Measurements
Listed in the table below are the expected learner outcomes of the course, and the methods that will be used to
measure students’ success in achieving these outcomes.
Expected Learner Outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student will be
able to:
1. Understand the basic principles of Human Resource
Management.
2. Demonstrate the ability to recruit and develop a
quality workforce.
Outcome Measurements
The expected outcomes will be
measured by:
Chapter readings, Discussion, Critical
Thinking Challenges and Case
Questions, Home Work and
Assignments, Exam One
Chapter readings, Critical Thinking
Challenges and Case Questions, Home
Work and Assignments, Exam Two
3. Demonstrate the ability to motivate and create
incentives for employees.
Chapter readings, Critical Thinking
Challenges and Case Questions, Home
Work and Assignments, Exam Three
4. Demonstrate and understand the factors of employee
benefits, employee rights, risk management and worker
protection.
Chapter readings, Critical Thinking
Challenges and Case Questions, Home
Work and Assignments, Final Exam
Method of Instruction:
Emphasis is placed on in class discussion questions, responses, class assignments, group work, and
presentations.
Course Schedule:
Date
Week
1
Subject
Chapter 1 Changing Nature of Human
Resource Management
Sept 3
Chapter 1 Reading and Exercise
Sept 10
2
Chapter 2 Strategic HR Management
Planning
Chapter 2 Reading and Exercise
Sept 17
3
Chapter 3 Equal Employment
Opportunity
Chapter 3 Reading and Exercise Exam One
Sept 24
5
Chapter 4 Workers, Jobs, and Job
Analysis
Chapter 4 Reading and Exercise
Oct 1
Oct 8
6
7
Oct 15
Oct 22
8
9
Chapter 5 Human Resource Planning
and Retention
Chapter 6 Recruiting and Labor Markets
Chapter 7 Selecting Human Resources
and Chapter 8 Training Human
Resources
Mid Term Exam
Oct 29
10
Chapter 9 Talent Management
Nov 5
11
Nov12
12
Nov 19
13
Nov 26
14
Dec 3
15
Dec10
Dec 17
16
17
Chapter 10 Performance Management
and Appraisal
Chapter 11 Total Rewards Compensation
and Chapter 12 Incentive Plans and
Executive Compensation
Chapter 13 Managing Employee
Benefits
Chapter 14 Risk Management and
Worker Protection
Chapter 15 Employee Rights and
Responsibilities
Chapter 16 Union Management
Relations
Final Exam
Readings / Assignments
Chapter 5 Reading and Exercise
Chapter 6 Reading and Exercise
Chapter 7 and 8 Reading and Exercise
Exam Two
Chapter 9 Reading and Exercise
Chapter 10 Reading and Exercise
Chapter 11 and 12 Reading and Exercise
Chapter 13 Reading and Exercise Exam
Three
Chapter 14 Reading and Exercise
Chapter 15 Reading and Exercise
Chapter 16 Reading and Exercise
Final Exam
Student Learning Assessment:
A standard grading scale will be used. The following items will be graded accordingly and will carry the
assigned grading values.
Class participation
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400 points
Attendance
Discussion questions
Class Assignments
Group activities
Presentations
Student Learning Assessment Continued:
Three exams
Final exam
400 points
200 Points
Total = 1000 Points
Grade Values:
A = 90 – 100% B = 80 – 89% C = 70 – 79%
D = 60 – 69%
F = 59% or less
Course Expectations and Policy of Academic Integrity:
GBC subscribes to the traditional policy of academic integrity. Students are expected be honest. That means
that students are expected to do their own work. In work that utilizes sources written by others, those sources
must be given credit for exact words and ideas. Students who plagiarize (copy the work of others and pass it off
as their own.) are violating the standards of intellectual honesty and are subject to punishments ranging from
failing the assignment to dismissal from the institution. Students who assist other students to cheat or plagiarize
are subject to the same disciplinary measures.