HRMG 6418. Managing the Organization. (2 Hours)

Presents key insights every business professional should understand working in, managing, and leading organizations in today's complex, diverse, and dynamic business environment. The primary goal of this course is to challenge—and improve—students’ understanding of human behavior in organizations so that they are better positioned to strategically leverage human capital. Introduces critical theories and concepts through case analyses, debates, TED Talks, and exercises that are designed to help students understand, analyze, and ultimately address real business situations and problems.


HRMG 6420. Health Organization Management. (2 Hours)

Introduces management principles in health organization management. Covers key issues, including the management imperatives of today’s healthcare organizations and how to implement strategies and programs to meet those imperatives effectively. Offers students an opportunity to apply important theoretical ideas such as systems thinking and organizational learning, to meet challenges effectively, to learn how the healthcare workplace functions, and how to manage in these workplaces. Emphasizes case-based learning, critical thinking, and evidence-based management using individual and group projects. Introduces cutting-edge tools in areas such as work redesign, performance management, brand enhancement, and quality improvement. Intended for anyone interested in working or managing within the healthcare industry, including the field of public health.


HRMG 6421. Power and Influence. (4 Hours)

Analyzes how to use power and influence as effective tools for understanding one's work surroundings, working with and managing people, and achieving one's own professional goals. Studies conceptual models, tactical approaches, and practical tools to help make sense of on-the-job learning experiences. Offers students an opportunity to obtain basic diagnostic and action-planning skills that can be used to understand power dynamics unfolding in any organization, as well as how best to leverage these dynamics. Exposes students to a variety of cases that demonstrate the effective and ineffective uses of power in different types of organizational contexts, and at different points in a manager’s career, and how to consider difficult ethical questions.


HRMG 6422. The Entrepreneurial Mindset of Leaders. (4 Hours)

Presents the entrepreneurial mindset and the relationship between successful business leadership and the psychological techniques and characteristics that thriving entrepreneurs possess. Examines the interpersonal and interactional side of building impactful ventures that matter and provide value and the choices a founder makes in selecting a founding team and choosing a business model. Explores the decisions entrepreneurs make in growing an organization, creating value, and eventually in exiting the business. Covers successful companies as well as companies that are struggling or failing. Offers students an opportunity to obtain a strong conceptual foundation and practical tools for addressing situations they are likely to face in entrepreneurship and in leadership roles.


HRMG 6423. Global Talent Management. (4 Hours)

Offers students an opportunity to obtain the insights, frameworks, and tools to effectively manage and develop talent in teams and organizations. This experiential learning course uses simulation and gamification to introduce students to the building blocks organizations use to manage the performance of individuals and teams. Students work in teams to create a work environment that enables employees to thrive by exploring the significant facets of talent management. Classroom discussions draw from case studies, podcasts, and current industry articles to focus on developing core competencies such as identifying, assessing, and developing talent to deliver performance coaching for individuals and teams and drive employee engagement and retention.


HRMG 6428. Great Companies. (4 Hours)

Presents the congruence model, a systems approach to designing and diagnosing organizations to improve performance. Investigates and illustrates─using articles, case studies, simulations, and videos─some of the practices of selected highly successful organizations to explain their outstanding achievements. Explores the central principles and available options─both traditional and progressive─in the principal components of organizations: work, people, culture, structure, and rewards. Analyzes how many average organizations apply typical practices and how many great companies are intriguing in that they often dare to be different, employing more radical practices in their cultures, how they do work, structure themselves, and engage employees.


HRMG 6430. Leading a Diverse and Inclusive Organization. (2 Hours)

Examines major issues arising in complex, diverse, and dynamic business environments. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to use evidence-based knowledge and practical tools to develop organizational approaches to leverage diversity and promote equity and inclusion. Uses readings, research, simulations, self-reflection, and case studies to generate discussion and develop skills. Topics include discrimination and bias, equity and inclusion, relationships across difference, family and personal life, identity, professional and personal development, and power and privilege.


HRMG 6440. Leading in the Tech Revolution. (2 Hours)

Examines leadership competencies for leading effectively in fast-paced, tech-driven environments. Explores strategies for self-management, effective communication, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder influence using case discussions, interactive exercises, and real-world applications. Examines practical leadership techniques to inspire high-performing teams and drive change in an era of digital transformation.


HRMG 6460. Advanced Topics in Human Resource Management. (2,4 Hours)

Examines in-depth selected issues and problems in human resource management that are of current interest to faculty and students. Specific topics alternate depending on faculty availability and interest as well as student enrollment criteria. May be repeated once for a maximum of 8 semester hours.

Prerequisite(s): HRMG 6418 with a minimum grade of C-


HRMG 6480. Behavioral Aspects of Innovation. (2 Hours)

Explores the behaviors that both enable and inhibit innovation, with an emphasis on demystifying the ideation process and offering specific practices that have been shown to support creativity and innovation. Includes concepts that effective innovators use to bring good ideas to life, such as tactics of influence and persuasion, optimizing team innovation and learning, and leadership practices focused on innovation. Offers students the opportunity to develop a proposed innovation idea and implementation plan for a real-world problem, with evaluation by an industry expert.


HRMG 6962. Elective. (1-4 Hours)

Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.


HRMG 7976. Directed Study. (1-4 Hours)

Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on chosen topics. May be repeated without limit.