AEM 3010 - Managing People

Spring. 1.5 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: AEM 3000 or permission of instructor.

D. Scur.

How do we understand the diverse and significant role of human factors in creating business performance and success? Business leaders espouse in generalities that ‘people make the difference’ but what human factors are the most significant and why? What strategies, processes, and commitments harness the best possible human capital outcomes? There is a critical difference between merely espousing a policy of harnessing the best possible human capital and executing one. This course is designed to help you understand these questions, using time-tested ideas along with research currently being undertaken by SC Johnson College of Business faculty.

Outcome 1: Identify opportunity in how organizations use human resources with the use of theory and evidence.

Outcome 2: Analyze how different incentive systems, both financial and nonfinancial, affect the productivity and retention of employees, to allow students to better consider both their own incentive structures and how they motivate peers and employees.

Outcome 3: Develop a framework for considering how to hire people for their organization, and give them appropriate tasks, to improved productivity and culture as firm leaders.

Outcome 4: Identify a tool for understanding individual biases and leadership styles that students can use throughout their careers (4Cs).