HR Management

High Demand

Major, Minor or Concentration

In the development of Rize’s HR Management program, numerous HR professionals and hiring managers from Fortune 500 employers to exciting startups collaborated to ensure the skills most desired in today’s HR roles. For this reason, Rize’s HR Management program provides students with both a well-rounded knowledge base of business concepts in addition to an HR Management specialization. Through the capstone course, students gain hands-on experience in the type of work they will perform in a professional setting, allowing them to hone their skills and create a portfolio that can be shared with potential employers.

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HR Management

Courses

Courses & Curriculum

HRM I - Training & Development

Training & development are key to building an empowered and motivated workforce. This course will help you build knowledge and skill in the design, development, delivery, and evaluation of organizational training. You’ll also learn how to create effective performance improvement programs, a vital resource in talent retention that is often overlooked. Lastly, you’ll get hands on experience, by producing your own sample training plan. This online course has optional live sessions.

HRM II - Total Compensation Management

Great people power great businesses, but attracting and retaining top talent requires companies to offer competitive compensation packages. This course will help you develop knowledge and skills in the development and evaluation of pay structures and benefits packages. You’ll also learn how total compensation issues affect every manager in an organization and analyze processes and procedures to create effective compensation plans. This online class has optional live sessions.

HRM III - Employment and Labor Law

This course is an overview of laws and regulations that determine the rights and obligations of employees and employers. You’ll learn about the nature of the employment relationship, common law principles, prohibitions against discrimination, wage law, specific governmental acts, and other areas of labor and employment law. By the end of this course you will become familiar with the federal and state laws that govern employment. This online class has optional live sessions.

HRM IV - Human Resource Risk Management

This course will examine the scope and role of HR in the occupational health and safety arena, the fundamental components of comprehensive programs and, more importantly, the interplay between these considerations and how important HR professionals are in their success. Topics covered include OSHA requirements, risk management and loss prevention, management of safety and workers’ compensation, employee assistance plans, preventative health issues, emergency response and preparedness, and developing a culture of safety, amongst others. There will be focus on the fundamental components of a comprehensive health and safety program to protect the employees in an organization and costly liability. This online class has optional live sessions.

Rize programs leverage the courses you already have

Our Partnerships Team works closely with you to create a customized program that integrates your existing courses. A potential Project Management major could look like:

Example courses from your institution

Accounting/Finance
Business Communication
Business Law
Business Management/Leadership
Marketing
Micro/Macroeconomics
Organizational Behavior or Organizational Communication
Capstone/Internship

Courses
from Rize

Training & Development
Total Compensation Management
Employment and Labor Law
Human Resource Risk Management

Student Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Develop and evaluate training and development programs using best practices in professional instructional design, including the ability to meaningfully gauge the impact of training programs.
Analyze and apply processes and procedures surrounding compensation management.
Identify and apply relevant employment and labor laws to a given human resources initiative.
Rigorously assess the scale of businesses risks associated with a given human resources initiative, including and exceeding those posed by compliance needs.

Certifications

Skills

Compensation and Benefits Strategy Development
Employment Law and Labor Relations Compliance
Human Resource Risk and Occupational Safety Management
Employee Recruitment; Selection; and Retention
Conflict Resolution and Workplace Mediation
HR Information Systems (HRIS) and Software Proficiency
Talent Management and Workforce Planning
Performance Management and Employee Development
Strategic HR Planning and Business Alignment
Legal and Ethical Decision-Making in HR
Data-Driven HR Analytics and Reporting
Leadership and Change Management in Organizations

Testimonials

Students give these courses rave reviews

"Rize courses have really helped me fall in love even more with my future profession that I want to go down."

Sean G.

Adrian College

“The class experience is amazing!”

Mary D.

University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

“Throughout the class time in Rize, the teacher is going over exactly what we need to do… he gave us the freedom to think creatively, to do our own project and it helped us do what he was teaching us to do on our own.”

Cole B.

Walsh University

“Rize has given me an opportunity to add something to my degree. Something that I wanted to find at my school but wasn’t there.”

Chisunta C.

Albertus Magnus College

“My experience with Rize classes has been extremely positive. I think they’re really well structured, and the professors really care as well - they’re really out there to help you”

Daniel W.

Lasell University

HR Management

HR Management