HRIR 3024 Governing the Workplace: Comparative Perspectives (2 cr)
An international comparison of who is allowed to make the rules governing the employment relationship. Study of alternative models/systems (e.g., business, government, employees, unions, market forces, mixed models) in the context of the U.S. and other countries. Exploration of models for the future.

HRIR 3031 Staffing and Selection: Strategic and Operational Concerns (2 cr)
Introduction to theory/practice of staffing decisions: recruitment, selection, promotion, demotion, transfer, dismissal, layoff, retirement. Staffing analyzed from strategic/operational perspectives. Legal issues.

HRIR 3032 Training and Development (2 cr)
Introduction to theory/research/practice of design/implementation/evaluation of employee training/development programs. Training as process for influencing individual/organizational outcomes (e.g., performance, job satisfaction, work climate).

HRIR 3041 The Individual in the Organization (2 cr)
Focus on factors influencing individual work performance. Includes motivation, perceptual differences, career choice, psychological contracts, assumptions about workers/work, leadership/management, learning/skill development, openness to change. Examines evidence on current trends.

HRIR 3042 The Individual and Organizational Performance (2 cr)
Factors influencing group, team, and organizational performance. Examines systems that drive organizational success. Topics include job design and organization structure, organization effectiveness measures, culture, group dynamics, teamwork; power and influence.

HRIR 3051 Compensation: Theory and Practice (2 cr)
Introduction to compensation/reward programs in employing organizations. Theories of organizational/employee behavior used in design/implementation of pay programs. Design, implementation, and evaluation of job evaluation, salary surveys, skill-based pay, merit-based pay, and other compensation programs.

HRIR 3071 Union Organizing and Labor Relations (2 cr)
Analysis of labor unions, employee associations, and collective bargaining within the framework of contemporary American legislation and policy. Covers forming/organizing labor unions; union, employee, and management strategies and responsibilities, historical influences on policy and practice in the private and public sectors.

HRIR 3072 Collective Bargaining and Dispute Resolution (2 cr)
Collective bargaining, contract administration, grievance processing, interest/rights arbitration, strikes and related policies and practices of employers, workers, and labor unions in dealing with worker representation in the private and public sectors. Impact and transfer of practices to the non-union sector are considered.

HRIR 3121 Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (2 cr)
Role of human resource management function in organizations. Labor markets, recruitment, selection, training, compensation, labor relations, performance management. The evolving nature of work, discrimination in employment work performance and its reward, effects of changing technology. Adapted for the CSOM Minor Program.

HRIR 5000 Topics in Human Resources and Industrial Relations (Cr ar, may be repeated for cr)
Selected topics of current relevance to human resource management.

HRIR 5021 Systems of Conflict and Dispute Resolution (4 cr)
Introduction to theoretical and practical treatment of conflict settlement in interpersonal, work-related, community, business, and international settings. Lectures, discussions, observations of actual dispute resolution sessions, and lab exercises with students participating in dispute resolution simulations applied to real world conflicts.

HRIR 5022 Managing Diversity (2 cr)
Ways to effectively manage increasingly diverse workforce. Human resource practices examined with respect to diversity. How to incorporate diversity into decision making to enhance organizational performance.

HRIR 5023 Personnel and Industrial Relations Law (2 cr)
Growing body of laws and their application to workplace: human rights, equal employment, compensation/benefit, employee protection, labor relations. Special issues (e.g., wrongful discharge, sexual harassment, defamation) discussed in context of statute, case law, and their application to work setting.

HRIR 5024 Employee Performance: Appraisal and Management (2 cr)
How employee performance is organized, appraised, and managed to achieve organizational/individual performance goals. Job design standards, employee appraisal systems, worker satisfaction.

HRIR 5061 Public Policies on Work and Pay (3 cr)
Analysis of public policies regarding employment, unions, and labor markets. Public programs affecting wages, unemployment, training, worker mobility, security, and quality of work life. Policy implications of changing nature of work.

HRIR 5991 Independent Study in Human Resources and Industrial Relations (Cr ar, may be repeated for credit)
Individual readings or research topics in human resource management.