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MG 323 - Employee Relations


Credits: (4 credits)

This course: explores a variety of employee relations conflicts, issues and the legal matters that accompany these situations.  Students will explore conditions that create positive working relationships with employees, develop your expertise applying organizational policies and adhering to state and federal labor laws ensuring fairness and balance.  Strategic topics such as workplace investigation, employee handbooks, performance appraisal and managing the difficult employee, legally managing leaves of absence related to disabilities or worker’s compensation injuries, harassment in the workplace, and unionized work environments

 Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and discuss complex employee relations issues that managers and Human Resource professionals must consider and resolve on a daily basis.

  • Recognize  and explain the effect of properly applied employee relation strategies on the individual employee and competitive advantages of well-developed company policies

  • Identify and articulate the complexity and difficulty faced by employees and their managers dealing with employee and workplace issues.

  • Acquire and demonstrate a systematic way to analyze and resolve those critical and complex employee relation and workplace issues found in every business within a number of contexts, including financial, legal, operational, ethical and cultural.



Prerequisite/Corequisite
Prerequisite: MG 302.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do the following:

  1. Identify and discuss complex employee relations issues that Human Resource professionals must consider and resolve on a daily basis;
  2. Recognize and explain the effect of properly applied employee relation strategies on the individual employee and competitive advantages of well-developed company policies;
  3. Identify and articulate the complexity and difficulty faced by employees and their managers dealing with employee and workplace issues;
  4. Acquire and demonstrate a systematic way to analyze and resolve those critical and complex employee relation and workplace issues found in every business within a number of contexts, including financial, legal, operational, ethical and cultural;
  5. Demonstrate professional writing and presentation skills suitable for a business environment.




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