Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

CCOG for MSD 222 Winter 2025


Course Number:
MSD 222
Course Title:
Human Resource Management: Personnel
Credit Hours:
3
Lecture Hours:
30
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Examines the basic responsibilities and concepts for managing the Human Resources function in an organization, such as: Integrating HR into the overall organization's objectives, basic HR laws, job analysis and planning, and recruitment and selection practices. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description


 

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion, the student should be able to:

  • Integrate Human Resources functions, roles, responsibilities and policies into an organization’s overall objectives, practices, and decisions.
  • Evaluate the impact HR laws and legislation has on organizational processes and workforce.
  • Use best practices in recruiting and hiring the most appropriate candidates to achieve a highly quality workforce.
  • Utilize principles of HR management to advance career opportunities in the workplace.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

  • Various individual and/or group skill-building activities such as role-plays, case studies, or other exercises geared toward critical analysis of course concepts.
  • Written assignments or oral reports designed to integrate course material into personal experience or experiences of others.
  • Complete exams comprised of essay and/or objective questions, or an individual and/or team project or paper which requires integration, application, and critical examination of course concepts, issues, and themes.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS:

  • Decision making
  • Planning
  • Job analysis and design
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Documentation
  • Problem solving
  • Supervising in compliance with HR laws

CONCEPTS, THEMES & ISSUES:
General Concepts

  • Key roles and responsibilities of Human Resources professionals
  • Integrating Human Resources policies into overall organizational goals
  • Human resources laws and legislation
  • Planning for Human Resources needs
  • Job analysis and design
  • Recruitment and selection strategies

Themes

  • Integrating Human Resources policies
  • Human Resources law
  • Supervisory/managerial practice

Issues

  • Complex Human Resources laws
  • Maximizing the Human Resources pool
  • Lawful recruitment and selection