Graduate Prerequisites: (SPHPH719 & SPHPH720) or consent of instructor. - This course provides students with a skills-based orientation to human resource management, especially in a public health or human services setting. Core human resource management activities such as staffing, training and development, compensation, and employee relations are explored via readings, cases, and experiential activities. Using case examples that illustrate basic principles, students develop strategies to improve human resources practices through job analysis, selection, training, compensation, and employee relations, while developing an awareness of the unique aspects of the health care workforce that affect human resource management in such settings.

Note that this information may change at any time. Please visit the MyBU Student Portal for the most up-to-date course information.