Effective Term: 200820 HRM 5300 - Career Development

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
H. Wayne Huizenga School
of Business and Entrepreneurship
Masters Programs

HRM 5300 - Career Development


I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
Work and professional careers are an important component and often the central focus of individual lives. Despite this, critical career choices are all too often made without the careful planning, information gathering, and analysis that are taken for granted in other business decisions. The purpose of this course is to lay the basis for effective personal career management. The course is aimed specifically at students who want to improve their abilities and skills and real-world opportunities. Prerequisite: HRMP 5200 or equivalent.

II. PREREQUISITES
( HRMP 5200 OR GMPF 5200 OR HRM 5030 OR GMP 5030 OR HRM 4160 OR MGMT 4160 )

III. LEARNING OUTCOMES
A. Entrance Competencies:

Students are expected to have an understanding of the global and competitive challenges of organizations, the role of human resources in strategic planning, the human resource management functions of work assessment, job design, and performance management, and the psychology of motivation and satisfaction.

B. Exit Competencies:

Upon completion of this course, students will have a working knowledge of the theories, models, components, and practices of modern organizational career development and will be able to devise career development programs for their organizations. Students will:

1) Understand and integrate the content and process theories of work motivation for individual career counseling.
2) Know the theories of career planning.
3) Become familiar with self-assessment tools such as the Keirsey Temperament, Career Anchoring Pattern, Values Inventory, Strong Campbell Interest Inventory.
4) Perform life and career assessment for individual career planning.
5) Be able to create a personal career/life plan.
6) Recognize employee stages of career development and identify individual career anchoring patterns for career planning.
7) Create an individual career development plan within an organizational context.
8) Practice a human resource manpower skill and needs assessment for the development of a career development program.
9) Outline the steps of developing an organizational career development program.
10) Discuss the trends and practices of organizational career development.
11) Acquire knowledge and techniques to implement a succession planning program.
12) Understand the characteristics and stages of mentor/learner relationships for the development of mentoring programs.
13) Learn the importance and techniques of establishing an organizational retirement program.
14) Diagnose positions for job enrichment as a career development tool.
15) Learn and practice career coaching and counseling techniques.
16) Discuss and use Career Path Analysis for employee placement and development.


IV. COURSE MATERIAL
  1. Required Materials

    1. Textbooks
    2. Up is Not the Only Way- A Guide to Developing Workforce Talent (Paperback) - 2nd.Edition - 1997
      Kaye, Beverly L.
      Davies-Black Publishing
      Palo Alto, CA
      ISBN: 0-89106-1630


    APA Manual
    Effective October 1st 2009, the 6th edition of the APA Manual is required for all courses.

    NSU Bookstore
    Textbooks and Case Studies may be purchased from the NSU Bookstore (located in the University Park Plaza) by calling 1-800-509-2665 or online at http://www.nsubooks.bkstore.com.

  2. Recommended Materials
  3. Gutteridge, Thomas, Leibowitz, Zandy and Shore, Jane (1993). Organizational Career Development: Benchmarks for Building a World-class Workforce. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

    Pinder, Craig. (1984). Work Motivation: Theory, Issues, and Applications. Glenview: Scott, Foresman and Company.


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Please note that all required and recommended materials should be referenced in APA style.