Preparing to Manage Human Resources (University of Minnesota)

One way or another, all employees are managed. But approaches to managing employees vary from employee to employee, job to job, manager to manager, organisation to organisation, and country to country.

This course provides a foundation for developing your own approach to skillfully managing employees by illustrating alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies, introducing the importance of the legal context, and thinking about what motivates employees.

This will then give you the factual and conceptual basis for developing specific, critical HRM skills in subsequent courses on hiring employees, managing performance, and rewarding employees.

Don’t know anything about HRM? That’s OK! Leave this course with a new-found understanding of the range of options available for managing employees, a grasp of what makes workers tick, and the readiness to develop your own HRM skills.