Human Resource Management Certificate

Introduction to strategies and best practices in attracting, retaining, developing, and compensating employees.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Course offered in the Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters.

Examines theoretical constructs and research findings on human behavior in work organizations such as businesses, especially individual differences, dyadic relations and small group behavior.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Course offered in the Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters.

Discuss elements of diversity including race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and age, among others, as these impact effective management in the workplace through a variety of workplace performance-related outcomes. Explore ways to contribute to, learn from, and benefit from a more diverse and inclusive work environment. Examine methods of optimizing human performance and potential in organizations. Create personal action plan to increase awareness, knowledge, skills and global perspective relative to diversity and inclusion.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Applying cultural dimensions to developing cross-cultural behavioral competencies utilizing code-switching training methods. For all persons interested in improving international person-to-person interactions.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Focuses on management of people in global organizations- especially for-profit enterprises. Topics include differences across countries in recruitment and selection, training and development, leadership and motivation, compensation, cross-cultural negotiation, and employment relations. The use of expatriates and host country nationals as managers is contrasted. Challenges involved in repatriating expatriates and their families after lengthy terms of service in foreign countries are explored.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Analysis and evaluation of legal and administrative regulations of terms of employment; Fair Labor Standards, discriminatory practices, safety and health regulations, other regulations.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Based upon behavioral science concepts and research findings directed toward understanding and explaining human behavior within organizations. Case studies, individual or team projects.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: MANGMT 4030
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Examines the empirical research and theory relating to the effect of compensation administration systems upon employee satisfaction and performance. Analysis of financial compensation systems and benefit programs in use in modern organizations.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 4020 and ACCTCY 2258. 

Advanced studies in selected administrative and technical policies, practices in employee relations, with individual and group project work, research. Focuses on policy issues, research findings, advanced techniques.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 4020
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Provides a comprehensive understanding of leadership development within the corporate environment. Examines causes and outcomes of different styles of leadership that are designed to fit the needs of individuals and/or specific situations.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Content, negotiation, administration of collective labor agreements and settlement of disputes.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

This course helps students develop expertise and confidence to engage in negotiations that occur in a variety of business contexts. Students engage with challenging negotiation exercises and post-exercise debriefings. These are supported by frequent feedback and practical conceptual frameworks and other knowledge about negotiation processes that serve as guides for improvement.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

This course teaches a structured approach to bulletproof problem-solving. Designed as a foundation course for students interested in consulting, it is also for those that want to learn to think like a consultant. Strategies for approaching problems and clients are introduced as well as frameworks for investigation and analysis. The majority of class work involves casework, completed in teams, on the practical application of diagnostic, communication and problem-resolution tools as they would present in a client/employer environment

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: Junior Standing 
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Provides a comprehensive understanding of the processes of change in the corporate environment. Examines antecedents of change such as acquisitions, mergers, technology and new leadership as well as approaches to managing change using tools from organization development (OD).

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Students must complete three credit hours of a supervised internship that consists of: 

• A minimum of 120 hours on-the-job experience AND
• HRM-Related Activities 

Internship courses that we accept are:

• BUS_AD 4500: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - INTERNSHIP*
• MANGMT 4940: PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP*

*Offered in the Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters.

Note: If a student has already completed BUS_AD 4500 with an internship that does not meet the HRM-related setting requirement of this certificate program or is not a student in the Trulaske College of Business, that individual would be advised to register for 3 credit hours under MANGMT 4940: PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP  for an internship that would qualify.

Timeline:

The internship course must be taken at the same time as your internship. If you completed an internship but did not take an internship course simultaneously, it will not be approved for the certificate. 

1. Please apply for the certificate by clicking the "Apply Now" button on this page. 

2. Once you declare that you are pursuing the certificate, you will receive a Follow-Up Questionnaire. This is required and you must complete the questionnaire to earn your certificate.

3. The questionnaire will require information regarding your internship and expected graduation date.

If you have not yet completed an internship course, please still complete the questionnaire. Once you obtain an HR internship at a later date, please make sure to send the offer letter, job description, and internship course information to mubushrm@missouri.edu.

• The job description needs to include the HR job functions, the name of the company, and dates of the internship. The job description needs to be written by the company.   
• If you do not have an official offer letter, we accept an official email from the company/supervisor confirming that you were offered the internship. 
• List which internship course you completed or will be completing simultaneously. 

4. Internships will be evaluated and approved by the Program Director. Once a decision has been made, you will receive a follow-up email regarding your approval status for your internship. 

We encourage students to apply as soon as they decide to pursue the certificate program. Please submit the application no later than the cut-off date in the semester of your graduation:

• Spring - May 1
• Summer - July 31
• Fall - December 1