HR is a significant contributor to an organization's success by maintaining and organizing the workforce or human capital, deliver HR services, and ultimately help carry out essential business strategies. This course will go beyond technical aspects of HR and provide an introduction to how HR can strategically manage people as business resources to align with organizational goals and strategies to provide a competitive advantage for businesses. Specific topics will include human capital alignment, workforce planning, recruitment/hiring processes, training & development, retention, and succession planning. In this course, students will be gain understanding of the perspectives, systems, and tools involved in effectively linking an investment in human factors with financial, customer/consumer, and operational strategy components.

HR is a significant contributor to an organization's success by maintaining and organizing the workforce or human capital, deliver HR services, and ultimately help carry out essential business strategies. This course will go beyond technical aspects of HR and provide an introduction to how HR can strategically manage people as business resources to align with organizational goals and strategies to provide a competitive advantage for businesses. Specific topics will include human capital alignment, workforce planning, recruitment/hiring processes, training & development, retention, and succession planning. In this course, students will be gain understanding of the perspectives, systems, and tools involved in effectively linking an investment in human factors with financial, customer/consumer, and operational strategy components.