Required
This introductory seminar introduces various HR functions such as: staffing, employee relations, compensation, benefits, information systems, EEO/AA/diversity, international aspects, labor relations, organizational development, training, and management development. Education and skill requirements will also be reviewed together with extensive discussion on the role and expectations of the HR professional and the HR function in today's workplace.
Notes
Course fee $390
Learning Mode
Online asynchronous
Class sessions are entirely online with no set day/time.
An organization that prioritizes and promotes equity among all staff can improve employee motivation, relations, and retention. One way toward equity is through the practice of cultural humility, a perspective that values lifelong engagement, self-analysis, and active listening with the motivation to learn. Using cultural humility as a cornerstone, we will examine elements of equity that can be used to create a more inclusive workplace. In addition to identity, diversity, and inclusion, students will study EEO laws and other related workplace requirements.
Learning objectives:
- Discussing benefits of a multicultural workplace that values equity.
- Increasing communication skills and developing strategies to increase equity.
- Identifying varying layers that compose public identity.
- Reviewing EEO hiring practices and laws related to issues of identity.
Notes
Course fee $390
Learning Mode
Online asynchronous
Class sessions are entirely online with no set day/time.
This class discusses workforce planning in support of the organization's goals and the activities and techniques necessary to recruit and select new employees and existing employees for promotion or transfer and to retain those employees in a competitive employment market. Topics include sourcing applicants, candidate selection, interviewing techniques and other selection tools, background investigation, required documentation, and onboarding practices.
Notes
Course fee $390
Learning Mode
Online asynchronous
Class sessions are entirely online with no set day/time.
This course examines employer/employee relations and is designed for human resources management (HRM) generalist practitioners and anyone who supervises other employees. Topics discussed include employee engagement, organizational communications, workplace safety, disciplinary actions, conflict and dispute resolution, and labor relations. The topics addressed in this course are drawn from the Human Resource Certification Institute and Society for Human Resource Management bodies of knowledge. Students work together to review and analyze case studies applying laws and practical approaches to HR issues.
Learning objectives:
- Explain management and employee rights and analyze the balancing interests
- Identify the elements of workforce engagement and methods of measuring and affecting it
- Apply performance management techniques when dealing with underperforming employees
- Argue the merits of unionization and responses to union organizing activities
- Differentiate between types of dispute/conflict resolution process
Notes
Course fee $390
Learning Mode
Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.
This class explores the processes and techniques by which organizations ensure that their employees have the requisite skills and maintain performance standards to accomplish the organization's business. The course introduces concepts related to strategic workforce planning, skills and competency assessments (supply and demand analyses), macro and micro development planning and how to impact a large population in order to create an effective and healthy organization. Participants learn how to evaluate, measure, and prescribe solutions to business leaders on how to lead, educate and develop a company's workforce in both the short and long term.
Learning objectives:
- Understanding strategic workforce planning, analysis and development as a concept and the subsequent actions to take to become a more strategic HR professional.
- Creating development, training and education plans to address underlying business issues, gaps and strengths.
- Deciphering, learning and applying organizational behavioral techniques and best practices to create a more engaged, productive and performant workforce.
Notes
Course fee $390
Learning Mode
Online asynchronous
Class sessions are entirely online with no set day/time.
This class discusses the fundamental principles for workforce compensation and benefits. It includes a survey of short-term and long-term compensation programs. It will also introduce students to the basic types of benefits and managing their costs.
Learning objectives:
- Naming compensation principles and legal constraints.
- Summarizing methods to evaluate and set job compensation.
- Identifying types of benefits plans.
- Discussing approaches to benefits administration.
Notes
Course fee $390
Learning Mode
Online asynchronous
Class sessions are entirely online with no set day/time.
(Capstone; take last)
Successful completion of the required seven classes is a prerequisite for this class. The class integrates all of the subject matter learned in the preceding classes of the Human Resource Management Certificate program using real world case studies that require application of the concepts, principles and practices of the various HR functions consistent with the expectations of an HR generalist practitioner.
Notes
Successful completion of the required seven classes is a prerequisite for this course.
To enroll in the class, please email your unofficial transcript to aboz@sfsu.edu.
Course fee $390
Learning Mode
Online asynchronous
Class sessions are entirely online with no set day/time.