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HRM 529 - Managing Training HRM 531 - Corporate practices are reviewed. Moreover,
and Development Performance Management this course looks at the labor law
from the international perspective so
Credit Hour: 3 Credit Hour: 3 that students are well-equipped to
Prerequisites: No Prerequisite Prerequisite: HRM 526 function as business professionals in
In order for employees to be effective This course examines human today’s increasingly global business
in their jobs and to contribute to resource management from a environment. In order to accomplish
organizational goals, they need to strategic perspective and focuses this goal, this course reviews labor
acquire and develop appropriate on how the Balanced Scorecard law and social legislature in the
knowledge and skills necessary for approach can be implemented United Arab Emirates, the United
their positions. Human Resource as a strategic tool for improving States of America, European Union
Development (HRD), an integral part sustainable performance of together with an overview of
of human resource management, companies of different size across international law and practices. While
helps employees acquire the various industries in the UAE and the the focus of this course is rather
necessary knowledge and skills. region. The first part of this course international, the ultimate goal of this
This course provides students teaches students how to use the tool course is to provide students with an
with a hands-on understanding to align the organization to its stated overview of the legal environment of
of theories and practices used in intent and translate the tool into the UAE; legal, social, economic and
human resource management to operational objectives. The second political forces impacting the law; and
provide employees with appropriate part of this course teaches students strategies for effective response to
training and development that how to unite employees through a forces in the legal, economic socio-
ensures realization of employees’full strategic performance enhancement cultural environment. Ultimately, this
potential in the workplace. On a program implemented with the help course teaches students to manage
more strategic level, this course of Balanced Scorecards. A particular labor relations within a legal and
examines how training and emphasis is placed on management ethical framework.
development can be correlated with approaches and techniques for HRM 532 - Compensation and
long term organization change and implementing Balanced Scorecards Benefits
development. HRD activities are for sustainable performance in
placed within a context of knowledge organizations in the UAE and Credit Hour: 3
management and the need to create, the region. These management Prerequisite: HRM517
develop and sustain a “learning techniques include creating
organization”. This course starts organizational awareness, setting This course teaches students
with an introduction to the main individual and team goals, and how to design an effective
concepts, theories, and practices of linking those goals to rewards. The compensation and benefits system
training and development. After that, course also teaches how to evaluate in their organizations in the UAE
the process of learning is examined effectiveness of Balanced Scorecards and the region. Topics covered
in depth in order to develop a implementation and make the within the compensation area
through theoretical understanding of necessary adjustments based on the include importance of monetary
learning among students. Then the feedback received. compensation, determining the
course focuses on various concepts, relative worth of jobs, performance
theories and techniques related to HRM 535- Employment Law and based pay schemes and indirect
training need assessment, planning Relations compensation. In order to emphasize
for training, conducting training practical application of these
(with a particular emphasis on the Credit Hour: 3 concepts, theories, and practices,
knowledge and skill transfer process), Prerequisite: No prerequisite students will be asked to create
and training evaluation. At the end Co-requisite: HRM 517 fictional companies in which they
of the course, the course will cover This course is an overview of the law will have to make decision on issues
issued related to career planning, and social legislature impacting the related to compensation in benefits.
such as employee and management workplace: the employer-employee The topics of compensation and
development and succession contract; anti-discrimination law; benefits are examined in the context
planning. Ultimately, this course employee testing and privacy; of contemporary developments
prepares students to effectively regulatory agencies; compensation related to Human Resource
manage training and development in and other statutory rights. Ethics Management in the UAE and
their organizations. and social responsibility are used as globally. These developments include
increased migration of labor and
lenses through which these laws and increased reliance on expatriates,

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