ILRHR 6600 HR Leadership: Views from the Top
Fall. 4 credits. Limited to 30 students. Prerequisites: ILRHR 2600/5600 or equivalent, senior or graduate standing, and permission of instructor. L. Dyer.
Hands-on course offering students a unique opportunity to learn about strategic business and human resource issues from the perspectives of senior HR executives. Five chief human resource officers (CHROs) from major corporations meet with the class for lively give-and-take sessions on subjects of strategic and topical interest to their organizations. Before their visits, teams prepare background papers on the speakers, their companies, and their topics. Students discuss these papers before the visits to assure readiness to address the issues at hand when the CHROs arrive. During the visits the teams host the CHROs and usually have an opportunity to interact informally with them. After the visits, the teams revise their background papers into white papers that reflect insights gleaned from their research and discussions. Subsequently, all five white papers are assembled in a book that is shared with the CHROs and others.