Human Resources and Employment Relations

The M.P.S. in Human Resources and Employment Relations (HRER) is a 33 credit program of study for professionals working in human resources/employment relations or considering a career in some aspect of human resources and employment relations. The program will prepare students to:

• understand the roles that employers, employees, employee organizations and unions, and public policy makers play in the employment relationship;
• analyze the complex personal, legal, and organizational issues inherent in the employment relationship;understand
• the ethical dimensions of human resource and employment relations; and
• analyze complex issues and evaluate research results in the process of administering labor and human resource systems;