ONLINE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Examine the considerations for human resource management in support of global business operations. Analyze sources of labor, business strategy, corporate culture and cultural differences as elements of global human resource planning. Review fundamental human resource issues such as compensation, productivity and training.

Examine the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and improve productivity. Review the key legal compliance issues associated with staffing organizations. Focus on HRM planning, job analysis, effective recruitment strategies, developing selection processes and the formulation of staffing plans.  Consider strategies for employee retention.

Understand the concepts of learning (cognitive and behaviorist), principles of instructional design and the relationship between motivation and learning. Analyze the phases of the training process model and the activities associated with each phase. Review how to develop viable training programs to fit a variety of organizational requirements for both employee and management training and development.

Analyze the basic concepts of compensation administration in organizations. Explore an intensive study of the wage system, methods of job evaluation, wage and salary structures, and the legal constraints on compensation programs.

Examines the applications of ethical principles through consideration of typical problem areas encountered in organizations. The course focuses on the ethical perspectives of business decision-making and policy development in a variety of key areas including individual behavior, human resource management, work environments, marketing, property rights, and international business. The analysis of case situations will illustrate the application of various ethical approaches (utility, individual rights, and justice) in managing organizations.

Explore the role of primary and secondary stakeholders, both within and outside organizations. Investigate ethics and social responsibility and review where organizational activities fall within different continua. Examine the broad forces in business, society and globalization and how stakeholders can influence results in both business and society.

Examine the processes by which organizations formulate strategy, implement policy, and evaluate outcomes in the highly competitive and dynamic global environment. Focus on the ethical implications of strategic choices throughout the course. Exercise your analytic, integrative, decision-making and business communications skills through the use of case analysis and decision making.

Get a basic overview of macro- and microeconomic principles and concepts. Understand the economic dynamics of market forces affecting competition, different economic systems, the role of government in the economy and economic aspects of international trade. Discusses the labor market, interest rates and the supply of money, and the performance of a national economy. Apply economics to business decisions, considering such principles as opportunity costs, diminishing returns and the marginal principle.

Examines the legal environment of today's businesses, the sources of American law, and ethics and corporate social responsibility. Provides an overview of constitutional, statutory, administrative and common law, tort law, agency, contracts, cyber law and privacy, LLCs, corporations, and bankruptcy, intellectual property, securities, consumer protection and environmental law, intellectual property, real property, international law, and the federal and state courts.

Get introduced to basic marketing principles and concepts. Focus on the development of marketing strategy and the major components of the marketing mix, (product, price, promotion and distribution). Review the critical environmental factors of markets — domestic and international — and customer behavior characteristics that affect marketing operations. Understand how marketing integrates with other functions in a business organization.