3 semester credits

Contemporary business environments are increasingly competitive, global, fast paced, and knowledge intensive. In these environments, effective use of human capital is crucial to an enterprise’s success and survival. In this course, students have the opportunity to learn practical issues such as planning and executing staffing strategies, creating and sustaining teams, maintaining influence in the organization, managing a global workforce, managing programs for productivity improvement, and planning and managing the human side of organizational change. This course will be especially useful for those planning careers as general managers as well as management consultants.