MASTER COURSE SYLLABUS
Date:
March 2002
Course Number:
MGT 631
Course Title:
Strategic Human Resource Management in a Technological
Environment
Instructor(s):
Gramm, Rogers, Sherman, Weatherly
Typical Textbook:
Baron, Strategic Human Resources, John Wiley & Sons, most
recent edition
Catalog Description:
Examines the major functions of human resource management
-- planning, staffing, compliance with laws regulating
employment relations, training and development,
compensation, employee relations, and union-management
relations -- from a strategic perspective. Particular
attention given to the special challenges faced by high
technology firms and organizations experiencing or
contemplating technological change.
Prerequisites:
MGT 600 or equivalent
Course Objectives:
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To introduce students to the major activities
involved in managing an organization’s human
resources ─ strategic planning, staffing, training
and development, employee and union relations,
compliance with laws governing employer-employee
relations, and compensation.
Primarily take the perspective of the general manager
rather than that of the human resource management
specialist. This means we will focus on strategic
considerations — how the management of an
organization’s human resources can help an
organization meet its organizational objectives and
competitive challenges — rather than such minutiae as
the techniques for job evaluation, performance
evaluation, or the design of different types of
benefit packages.
Consider the special challenges to effective human
resource management faced by high technology
organizations, organizations experiencing or
contemplating technological change, and organizations
employing knowledge workers, including workers in
high technology occupations.
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Ethics:
This course will cover the Society for Human Resource
Management’s “Code of Ethical and Professional Standards
in Human Resource Management.” Discussions of ethical
considerations and dilemmas that managers may face in
carrying out human resource management functions.
Environment:
Diversity:
Global Issues:
Technology:
Not applicable
This course will provide substantial coverage of the
implications of demographic diversity for the management
of an organization’s human resources. The course will
include coverage of the implications of diversity in
domestic and global labor markets for strategic human
resource management. It also will cover U.S. law
protecting various groups against discrimination in
employment. Additionally, it will consider the use of
human resource management practices to attract, develop,
and retain a diverse and productive labor force for the
organization.
This course will cover the implications of the scope of
labor markets and product markets for effective human
resource management, issues related to international
staffing, and employment law issues pertaining to global
organizations.
Considers the special challenges to strategic human
resource management in high tech organizations, in firms
experiencing technological change, and firms employing
knowledge workers, including workers in high technology
occupations.
MASTER COURSE SYLLABUS
Subject Matter:
MGT 631
March 2002
(based on 15 - 2 hour & 50 minute sessions)
Item
Sessions
1.
Introduction; Code of ethics for HR Managers;
definitions related to MOT emphasis
1
2.
3.
Strategic human resource management paradigm
1
2
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
The Legal environment, economic environment and global
environments
Internal organizational environment; HR systems in
emerging high tech companies
Strategic staffing
Strategic compensation and rewards
Employee and union relations; negotiating strategies
3 quizzes
Integrative team case study of strategic HRM in a high
tech firm and final presentations/papers (in lieu of
final exam)
1
2
2
2
1
3
Computer Usage:
Word processing and use of internet to search for
information. Some students also may need to perform
spreadsheet or statistical analyses as part of team or
individual projects.
Library Usage:
Research for team or individual projects.