Human Resource Management Minor

Human Resource Management is a minor designed to prepare students for careers in business. The minor is tailored with courses to maximize students’ abilities to gain knowledge and skills in a concentrated timeframe. Students looking to minor in Human Resource Management can pair this concentration with a variety of other business and non-business majors.

Just like Human Resource Management majors, students who minor in Human Resource Management have access to several different student organizations on OU’s campus. Some student organizations are SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management and Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity. These organizations give students the opportunity to become more involved with the student body, develop leadership skills, open doors for internships and jobs, and cultivate friendships that can last a lifetime.

Special offerings for each semester may be found in the Schedule of Classes.

Requirements for the minor in Human Resource Management

Five courses are required to complete the Human Resource Management minor; these include the following.

Required courses

ORG 3300 - Introduction to Organizational Behavior (3)
ORG 3310 - Introduction to the Management of Human Resources (3)
ORG 4340 - Advanced Human Resources Management (4)

Elective courses - choose two

ORG 4300 - Organizational Research Methods (4)
ORG 4310 - Leadership and Group Performance (4)
ORG 4320 - Motivation and Work Behavior (4)
ORG 4330 - Labor/Management Relations (4)
ORG 4600 - Compensation and Benefits (4)
ORG 4700 - International Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management (4) or ORG 4900 - Topics in Organizational Management (3 TO 4)

Additional requirements

To earn this minor, and to take 3000- and 4000-level business classes, non-business students must meet with the minor coordinator and have an approved minor authorization form detailing the courses and the prerequisites required for the given minor. Once approved for the minor, students must take all the remaining courses in the minor at Oakland University. Students must complete the prescribed courses for the minor with a grade of C or better in each course and the prerequisites for each course. Transfer students planning to earn a minor must earn at least nine credits toward the minor at Oakland University; at least six of these nine credits must be in courses at the 3000 level or above.