If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the human resource manager's work.
• Appreciate the potential of a career in human resource management.
• Relate human resource management and the human resource function to the organization as a whole.
• Understand the environmental forces that affect human resource management and the total organization, and specifically the government, unions, technology resources and changes within the work force.
• Relate the need for meeting staffing requirements to human resource recruiting, selection, training, and management development in terms of organizational objectives.
• Develop an understanding of motivation and leadership in the work situation, designing wage and salary systems, economic supplements, health and safety programs, and executive compensation.
• Develop a background needed to provide guidance and direction in the application of the human resource management function including communication, performance evaluation, collective bargaining, discipline, and career planning.