Jan

14

That’s the way that this wheel keeps turning ’round…

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Each and every week, I end up with a pretty laid back schedule, if you ask me. For my classes, they’re all evening, so I can putter away all day at little projects, homework, readings, and other things, and then at night bunker down for the bulk of the coursework and the lectures. So let’s go day by day at what I end up taking…

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Tuesday
MAN4320 - Recruitment and Selection: One of the cores to my Human Resource Management major, this course focuses on the all important job description in terms of finding the person/job fit. You know when you read ads and you see the jobs you’re looking for? This is the course that focuses on how that’s done and what all is looked at. It looks to be fun, and the teacher has a nice laid back approach to how things are done and delivered, but wants us on the ball with it.

Wednesday
MAN4701 - Business Ethics & Society: Another one of those required classes for students to empart on them the societal responsibilities and forces of the surrounding world. As a whole, its not bad and is a lot of historical references and examples. Its one of those classes that you have to slug through and “just get done.” But if you’re a history guy like me, well, it’s golden.

Thursday
MAN4330 - Compensation Administration: Fancy course title, no? Well, this course is all about how you get paid, why you get paid, and what you get paid. Very cool, to say the least. It looks into the value of benefits, how to figure out salaries, how the salaries and industries are relative, and just how to keep everything all in line. Its another one of those steps in the process of hiring, but the whole course focuses on how the salaries work. Nice.

MAN4350 - Training and Development: Yes, I have an afternoon class and an evening class on Thursdays. And this course takes the final part of the hiring and acquirement process of business and new employees. But, its the most important part, seeing we’re focusing on imparting the knowledge of the organization to the “minions” of the organization. Okay, not the “minions,” but I just like that word.

Online Course
GEB3356 - International Business: The lectures for this class are videotaped, so I can watch them on my own time sometime after Tuesday and Thursday afternoons when they’re available online. And it’s fairly informative and fun to watch and follow along with. I can’t describe it, I just enjoy it. But the course is all about how business is in a global focus and how the worldwide market works. I did a bit of reading on this in my own free time a year or so back. I enjoy it. I just do.
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And that’s about it. A fairly diverse offering of classes. It keeps me busy, to say the least. I’ve been doing a lot of reading to stay ahead of the lectures/PowerPoint slides for each class, and with everything involved, well, I’m on the ball. Feeling good about being ahead of myself.

I didn’t really mention that there’s a group project for each class, but I’m a management major and that’s all we do: team building. You can have fun with that. Me? With 5 different classes and 5 different groups of 5 individuals each? Well, it’ll get a bit overwhelming, I think. We’ll see, eh?

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