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草莓社区鈥檚 newest graduate degree program, the MA in Human Resources, launches in August 2022.
The 30-hour degree program is designed for working professionals who want to shift to an HR career track or for current HR professionals who want to enhance their effectiveness as organizational leaders. It includes evening online synchronous courses and can be completed in 21 months.
鈥淚f you鈥檙e the kind of leader who thinks about motivated and productive employees as key to your organization鈥檚 success, this is a great degree for you to pursue,鈥� said Andrew Miller, director of EMU鈥檚 Department of Business and Leadership graduate programs. 鈥淚t combines the foundational skills to engage in HR leadership, basically getting the right people in the right places to fulfill the organizational purpose, but then with this extra unique focus on the wellbeing and thriving of employees.鈥�
Examples of this, he says, would be a people-centered process for developing systems, processes and policies: job rotation for repetitive work, securing and offering appropriate benefits, working to create both physically and emotionally safe workspaces.
For current HR professionals looking to broaden their skill-set, the program also offers leadership training and integration of several unique interdisciplinary fields, including trauma awareness and resilience.
鈥淟earning more about how people behave under stress or in stressful conditions, the processes to repair harm with restorative practices are unique skills a leader can bring into the workplace,鈥� Miller said.
The curriculum focuses on the philosophical foundations and core competencies of leadership, specifically developing one鈥檚 distinctive leadership style that is responsive to and supportive of employee, organizational, societal and ecological well-being.
Courses include
- Human Resources and the Employee Experience听
- Strategic Talent Management听
- Compensation and Benefits: Total Rewards听
- Labor Law, Compliance and Risk Management听
- Learning and Development听
- Change Leadership and Facilitation for Resilience
- HR Analytics and Evaluation听
- Human Resource Leadership
- Intro to Leadership Theory听
- Organizational Behavior听
*pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
Learn more at the MA in HR website or by emailing graduate@emu.edu.
Good addition to the academic repertoire. It would be good to add a course/s on ‘Organizational Conflict and Organizational Trauma’