Organizations succeed when they can attract, develop, motivate, and retain talented people. The Human Resources Management focus area builds expertise in talent management, motivating employee performance, designing reward systems and workforce decision-making. Explore how people analytics and artificial intelligence are reshaping modern HR practice.

• Understand how strategic human resource management drives organizational success and business performance
• Develop skills to attract, recruit, and retain top talent in competitive labor markets
• Learn to design and implement effective performance management and employee development programs
• Build expertise in how to use analytics and AI-powered insights to support workforce decisions
• Gain practical negotiation and influence skills to navigate workplace challenges and drive outcomes

Course availability varies by semester. 

Required: Six Credits

• MGI 601 Human Resources Management (3 credits)
• MGB 626 People Analytics and AI (3 credits)

Then choose two electives (six credits) from the following: 

• MGI 617 Managing Employee Performance (3 credits)*
• MGI 620 Talent Management (3 credits)*
• MGB 625 Power and Influence (3 credits)
• MGG 640 Negotiations (3 credits)

* A highly recommended course; however, any combination of courses from the list for a given focus area will satisfy the requirement.