Human Resource Major
Our curriculum acquaints students with modern human-resource management in its broadest sense. Included are the traditional areas of labor and employee relations, compensation and benefits, and selection and development. In addition, the student becomes familiar with the latest advances in the behavioral sciences and their implications for a complete human-resource program. We designed the program in human resource management for students whose career objectives encompass the field of human resources. From its early beginnings as a staff function involving the maintenance of records and the administration of benefit programs, personnel administration has grown and expanded to encompass the total development and utilization of human resources in organizations. While company titles may vary from vice president of industrial relations to vice president for organization planning and development, there are few firms of any size or consequence today that do not have a human resources specialist reporting directly to the company's highest level. This practice reflects the awareness that its human resources are an organization's greatest asset.
Most organizations of any size or consequence have a human-resource specialist, a position reporting to the company's highest level. Our curriculum, with its emphasis on ethics and organizational change reflects the universal importance of the human-resource function.
