Explores the management of human resources, with particular focus on health care services environments. It is designed to provide an understanding of the key concepts, principles, and practices of Human Resource Management. Topics include recruitment, selection, and retention practices, performance evaluation, employee training and development, compensation and benefits issues, promotion, job design and analysis, legal issues affecting the healthcare workplace, management/labor relations and workplace safety within contemporary health care services organizations. Trends in human resource management in healthcare are also addressed.

4.5 Credit Hours