Human Resources Management (HRMT)
This is a list of the Human Resources Management (HRMT) courses available at KPU.
HRMT 3115 CR-3
Human Relations in Organizations
Students will demonstrate understanding and apply key concepts of human behaviour in organizations, with in-depth focus on the phenomena of communication, leadership, decision-making, conflict and change at the individual, group, and organizational levels. They will further their development of interpersonal skills that contribute to effective functioning in organizational settings. Students will assess their human relations strengths and weaknesses and identify opportunities to substantively increase individual contribution to the organization and achieve higher levels of personal fulfillment in their careers and lives.
Not Transferable
HRMT 3125 CR-3
Employment Law
Students will research, review and apply applicable statutes and common law regulating employment relationships, including employment agreements, the duties of the employer and employee, and termination of the relationship, including the law of wrongful dismissal. Students will also address the statutory schemes which affect the employment relationship including the Employment Standards Act, and attention will also be paid to Human Rights legislation including the Duty to Accommodate. Students will also investigate emerging privacy law issues.
Not Transferable
HRMT 3135 CR-3
Recruitment and Selection
Students will use up-to-date aspects of the current issues and methodologies used in recruiting and selecting employees for organizations as essential components of strategic human resources planning, with an emphasis on their strategic role in enhancing organizational performance. They will deal with contemporary developments and their practical applications related to organization and job analysis, competencies and performance management, employee recruitment, screening and selection, testing, interviewing and related decision making.
Not Transferable
HRMT 3145 CR-3
Occupational Health and Safety
Students will work as a member of a team to identify strategic organizational practices for Occupational Health and Safety consistent with the organization's strategy; improve occupational health and safety practices through the
assessment of education and communication needs and the provision of appropriate programs; and analyze program effectiveness and track accident reports and health outcomes based on information and data from a Human Resource Information System.
Not Transferable
HRMT 3255 CR-3
Total Compensation
Students will evaluate and implement a road map to evolving compensation strategy and design. They will use the process a Human Resource practitioner follows in order to put together an effective compensation program according to current best practices, focusing on performance-based approaches to compensation that help create programs that support an organization's broad-based strategic needs. Students will review the most advanced thinking in job analysis, job evaluation, compensation surveys, contingency-based compensation plans, executive compensation packages, productivity measurements and the use of technology in managing compensation programs in the course.
Not Transferable
HRMT 3265 CR-3
Employee Development and Coaching
Students will use best professional practices focusing on the management of training and development as a critical investment in an organization's human resources capital. They will demonstrate processes centered around the roles and responsibilities of Human Resource Development professionals, a model of training, the importance of needs analysis, strategic goal setting, program design, on and off-the-job training methodologies, transfer of training, training evaluation and costing, the diversity of training programs, as well as the management development process. Students will also utilize coaching techniques as a powerful intervention to enhance organizational results by influencing the way people think and work together.
Prerequisites: HRMT 3115
Not Transferable
HRMT 4115 CR-3
Labour Relations
Students will practise the application of collective agreement language in an organizational setting through a series of grievance cases covering all aspects of a collective agreement. Students will use grievance decisions to prepare proposals for negotiations using collective agreement language, and will confront issues surrounding labour disruptions and the application of Labour Relations legislation.
Prerequisites: HRMT 3125
Co-requisites: HRMT 3135 and HRMT 3145 and HRMT 3255
Not Transferable
HRMT 4125 CR-3
Organizational Development
Students will research, review and present key findings on best practices related to a variety of key organization development concepts, such as: the process of organization development; human process interventions; techno-structural interventions; human resources management intervention; strategic interventions and special applications of organization development, including corporate coaching.
Prerequisites: HRMT 3115 and HRMT 3265
Co-requisites: ENTR 4110
Not Transferable
HRMT 4500 CR-6
Strategic Human Resources Management
Students will manage, design, prepare and present a comprehensive Human Resource Management project that will meet the requirements of a client organization. Students will synthesize developmental, leadership and application
experiences to analyze factors internal and external to an organization and provide strategic recommendations based on an organization's human capital; develop strategic human resource plans in concert with the organization's strategic plan; and implement plans to address gaps in an organization's capabilities in order to carry out strategic plans. They will also design strategic staffing processes to maintain organizational effectiveness, analyze trends in the organization's environment and develop appropriate Human Resources responses.
Prerequisites: HRMT 3125 and HRMT 3135 and HRMT 3145 and HRMT 3255 and HRMT 3265
Co-requisites: HRMT 4115 and HRMT 4125
Not Transferable
