Course Overview
This course introduces the Human Resource Management Framework and the complex web of rules, statutes, and regulations that impact the employer-employee relationship. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the framework's purpose and critical components, illustrating the role each plays in managing human resources effectively. It also highlights foundational human resource management concepts, the employee life cycle, the line-staff relationship, and the importance of the human resource management function's stakeholders in helping students prepare for their careers.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Articulate the purpose of human resource management and its various organizational functions.
- Describe the web of rules, statutes, and regulations that govern employment relationships and practices and their implications for human resource management.
- Describe the purpose of the human resource management framework.
- Articulate the importance of aligning human resource management processes with business strategy, legal requirements, the labour relations process, and effective management practices.
- Explain the various stages of the human resource management framework from onboarding to offboarding.
- Outline workforce planning, recruitment, and selection processes.
- Describe programs, processes, and practices to develop employees and manage their performance using onboarding, training and development, employee engagement, performance management, compensation management, and other processes.
- Explain the purpose of job analysis and the role of motivation in effective job design.
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of the organization, the human resource professional, the line manager, and the employee.
- Describe the role of environmental factors such as technological and economic changes and effective management practices such as diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Analyze and evaluate an organization's HR framework.
Effective as of Winter 2026
Related Programs
Human Resource Management Framework (HRMG 2250) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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