Management and Human Resources

Whether you’re working for a global company or regional non-profit, a mature enterprise brand or a virtual start-up, you will be asked to build and sustain a strong talent pipeline.

Your Management and Human Resources (MHR) degree will prepare you to enter a field where change is a constant. You will shape the future of HR, everything from:

• the way companies recruit, attract and evaluate people
• how managers motivate and reward top performers
• the way teams and individuals learn
• how people curate and manage their entire work-life experience

The same forces changing business generally — digital disruptions and lots of data waiting to be translated into actionable insights — are also transforming human resource management. Trends and challenges that you will one day shape include:

• Our tools allow us to take our work anywhere. You will look for ways to keep that “always-on” mode from overwhelming people.
• Employment brands, like everything else, can be searched and reviewed in an instant. You will look for ways to embrace new levels of transparency and build trust with current and prospective employees.
• Data and analytic tools can help companies identify top talent. You will use those same tools to retain talent and invest in future leaders.
• Routine employee training and learning is moving from the classroom to the cell phone. You will design learning experiences that can be accessed by employees anywhere.

As a Boler Management and Human Resources (MHR) major, you will benefit from the core knowledge, ethical grounding and advanced business and strategic skills needed to put the Jesuit tradition of being women and men in service to others into action.

The liberal arts emphasis on broad knowledge (music, science, philosophy, mathematics, history) and critical thinking, and clear writing and communicating, will set you on the right path. By mastering the grammar and habit of organized thinking and exposing yourself to durable ideas about what motivates humans to work effectively, you will:

• Grasp the changing economic, political, legal, ethical, and cultural contexts in which new human resource challenges, strategies and solutions emerge.
• Approach human resource challenges strategically, rather than tactically.
• Bring deep consideration and knowledge of organized solutions, hierarchical procedures, and rational sequences to many tasks, including measuring performance.
• Learn to distinguish between the trivial, and that which promises welcome change for people, our planet and profits.

Through project-based learning and experiential exercises, students majoring in Management and Human Resources (MHR) will gain an intensive understanding of the concepts and techniques needed to effectively manage employee talent, such as how to strategically acquire, cultivate, and utilize an organization’s human resources.

MHR students obtain knowledge related to:

• recruitment, selection, training and development, and retention of human capital
• employee performance management, workforce planning, compensation administration
• facilitation of organizational change
• application of employment law

Moreover, the Management and Human Resource major will prepare students for managerial and leadership positions by developing student skills related to relationship management, leadership, career management, creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and verbal and written communication.