Post-Masters CertificateHuman Resources

This course focuses on the role of marketing and the marketing department in adding value to the organization. Major elements of the marketing process to be covered include domestic and global market assessment, strategic marketing planning, the development of an effective marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and distribution) to create customer value, consumer/business buying behavior, and market research.

This course introduces students to the knowledge and skills needed to manage technology organizations in an increasingly competitive global environment through the successful use of innovation and creativity. The course provides a consistent process for the formulation, implementation, and assessment of technology business strategy and presents a framework for the birth, growth, maturation, and decline of business innovation. Students will analyze technology issues in various business sectors throughout the course and develop findings and recommendations.

This course provides students with the tools needed to manage operations and projects within an organization. Topics include demand forecasting and management, capacity planning and scheduling, inventory control, purchasing and materials management, facilities management, project management strategies and tactics, defining user needs and project scope, scheduling and budgeting, and performance objectives. Control methods, such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts, project management software, and project audits, will also be covered.

This course covers the effective management of human resources in an organization, including concepts and techniques of personnel planning, job and performance evaluation, incentive and performance standards, accommodation of diversity in the workplace, and the impact of labor organizations on management. Current topics in human resource management that recognize the dynamic environment for this field will be researched.

This course focuses on the meaning of the "rule of law" and the conduct of a business, as well as contract elements in the market economy and how regulatory law affects an organization's choices. Other topics include employer discrimination and employment law legal perspective in the firm, student skills recognizing ethical issues through discussion of current case studies to emphasize the impact of these topics on the daily operations of an organization, and labor law views and how they affect the management of employees.

This course focuses on compensation and rewards management as human resource tools within organizations. Emphasis is placed on the integration of compensation and reward structures to create a strategic advantage for an organization. The course includes an overview of compensation systems, job evaluations in regards to reward structures, legal constraints involving compensation programs, and global compensation issues.

In this course student will evaluate major global challenges that business are faced with. Emphasis will be on economic, political and cultural characteristics of different regions and how they impact the business landscape locally and globally. Impacts in multiple functional roles will be considered, specifically in the areas of marketing, human resources, finance, healthcare, business intelligence, technology and project management.