91-878, Understanding Human Capital and Human Capital Investment
12 units
Prerequisites: 91-800, Organizational Management: Theory And Practice, or 91-822, Human Resources Management, and combined with current or previous workplace experience
Delivery Format: On-Campus
Description: This course will explore the meaning of human capital and human capital investment in organizations and the impact it can have on organizational effectiveness, worker motivation and satisfaction, organizational retention, and human performance. The student will be engaged through lecture, discussion, seminar, group-work, text, case study, analysis and creative-entrepreneurship. After an exploration of what makes people feel valued and an understanding of human capital and human capital investment, the student will learn to systematically analyze a real-life organizational issue through the human capital investment lens. Then, the student will be asked to create a human capital investment program of his/her own based on the results of the analysis in order to solve or make the problem better. Matching an employee into the right position gives every organization the human capital edge. Hearing and understanding what an employee wants and needs is critical. Therefore, it is also the aim of this course that the individual will come to a better understanding of his or her own workplace motivators, as well as, the motivators and inhibitors of his/her colleagues, so that through this empathy he/she can become a better manager and/or leader.
Last modified on September 27, 2007
