Click here for a list of all UALR core curriculum, College of Business core curriculum, and Management Electives.The Human Resource Management Emphasis in the Management Major and the Human Resource Management Minor prepare students for careers in human resource-related areas including personnel management. The program stresses the importance of integrating individual goals with organizational objectives. Issues and activities covered are the legal environment of employee relations; job analysis and design; employee planning, recruiting and selection; employee training and development; employee productivity improvement, compensation, and other reward systems; union-management relations; and quality of work life.

Human Resource Management Major Requirements

University Core Studies (required of all majors): 44 hours
Business Administration Studies: 48 hours

Major Studies: 27 hours

• Management 3320
  Human Resource Management
• Management 3340
  Applied Organizational Behavior
• Management 4341
  Labor and Industrial Relations
• Management 4360
  Compensation Management 
• Management 4391
  Employment Law 

Four courses from the following:

• Finance 4364
  Employee Benefits
• MGMT 4342
  Negotiation and Administration of Collective Bargaining Agreements
• MGMT 4385
  Special Topics in Management
• MGMT 3352
  Advanced Personal Computer Applications
• One of the following:
  • MGMT 3362
    Small Business Management
    OR
  • MGMT 3364
    Family Business Management
    OR
  • MGMT 4377
    International Business Management
    
• Speech 3316
  Interviewing

Unrestricted electives: 5 hours
Total Degree Hours: 124

Human Resource Management Minor Requirements

Minor Studies: 18 hours

• MGMT 3300
  Organizational Behavior and Management
• MGMT 3320
  Human Resource Management

From the following: 12 Hours

• ACCT 2310
  Principles of Accounting I
• MGMT 4341
  Labor and Industrial Relations
• MGMT 4342
  Negotiation and Administration of Collective Bargaining Agreements
• MGMT 4360
  Compensation Management
• MGMT 4385
  Special Topics in Management
• MGMT 4391
  Employment Law