Rutgers SMLR Spring 2026 Courses

Various in-person sections offered

Gain a deeper understanding of the history that matters a lot for today’s American workers, organizations, and human resource policies. This course has been approved for Core requirements in history and writing with revision.

Taught by Instr. John Schultz
Wed. 10:20am-1:20pm
Index 22507

Democracy is in crisis in many nations and increasingly problematic in the U.S.  What can labor organizations and other progressive social movements do to defend democracy? What is meant by democracy anyway in politics or in the wider society?

Taught by Prof. Eric Blanc
Tues. 5:40pm-8:40pm – VIRTUAL CLASS
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You know that the Civil Rights Movement changed the face of work; in this synchronous online course evaluates the strategies of that and other social movements that have reshaped economic opportunity.  

Multiple sections in person and ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS

Learn about the need, and the potential for, making work safer for everyone.  This course focuses on the United States but obviously this is a global issue and international students can learn from the successes and failures of current U.S. efforts.

Taught by Prof. Christopher To – HYBRID CLASS
Mon. 2:00pm-3:20pm
Index 22392

This NEW course explores how AI learns, how it speaks, and how it thinks. The course also covers topics around how to use Gen AI in the workplace, including prompt engineering, the design of new AI products, and discussion of regulation of AI products in this ever-changing online environment. Prerequisite: 37:533:301 Intro to Human Resource Management

Online and in-person sections offered

Human Resources has a hand in every industry and career. This course covers the broad range of topics associated with HR management from the perspective of the HR professional, the manager, and the employee. This class is great for ANY major, but it serves as the base course in the undergrad HRM major and minor. For students who hope to become managers or team leaders during their careers, covers issues such as staffing, motivating, and developing team members.

Online and in-person sections offered 

Provides an overview of career management topics including understanding self-assessment results, preparing for the job market, understanding the job search process, and maximizing effectiveness in career development. Also covers basic personal career enhancing skills and topics including resume writing, interviewing skills, work-life harmony, and relocation.

Taught by Prof. Ryan Greenbaum
Wed. 10:20am-1:20pm
Index 23519
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37:533:321  Special Topics in HRM: HRM in Sports
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Are you a sports fan? Do you wonder why the teams pay some of these athletes the huge salaries they do? Join us as we dig deeper on organizational strategies, compensation, performance evaluations, and more from a sports perspective. This is a fun, discussion-filled class to learn valuable HRM functions that are used in the ever-changing sports world and everyday life. ​

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37:533:326  Special Topics in HRM: HR Consulting
Index 22388
Taught by Instr. Suneet Bhatt
Wed. 2:00pm-5:00 pm
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Also listed under:
37:533:326  Special Topics in HRM: HR Consulting
Index 22388

Are you looking for a class that may land you a career? In this course, students work in small teams to provide real-life consulting services to a local organization. These consulting services may include marketing, program evaluation, strategic planning, or other types of analysis that the organization may need. This is designed to specifically analyze these problems and formulate innovative solutions, and effectively communicate recommendations. Through this process, students learn about the real-world challenges faced by community organizations and gain practical experience in applying their academic knowledge to solve these challenges. Prerequisite: 37:533:301 Intro to Human Resource Management

Taught by Instr. Suneet Bhatt
Wed. 10:20am -1:20pm
Index 22389

Students have called this “the most impactful class you will take.” Imagine a class fully dedicated to helping you understand your unique strengths and point-of-view, and then giving you a forum to practice how you articulate your story in an authentic way – in a job interview, in a grad school application, in a deep conversation with friends and family. Every session will be built around helping you understand and articulate your purpose, using a mix of reading materials, tools, frameworks, assessments, powerful guest speakers – and always, great conversations.

Taught by Prof. William Kane
Thurs. 2:00pm-5:00pm
Index 22391

Based upon the coaching fundamentals of UCLA’s legendary John Wooden (ESPN’s “Coach of the Century”), this course offers a unique, time-tested, evidence-based roadmap toward achieving optimal organizational performance through enhanced team building and leadership skills. Prerequisite: 37:533:301 Intro to Human Resource Management

Taught by Prof. Joseph Blasi
Wed. 2:00pm-5:00pm
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Learn first-hand from guest speakers how companies give their employees not only a sense of ownership in their work, but also why it is important to make them actual owners in their organizations. This is a survey course that allows students to network with executives while exploring the variety of ways that businesses can compensate employees with shares of equity, profits, or gains, and the human resource management, employment relations, organizational and individual motivational issues that such practices raise. ​

Hybrid and Asynchronous Online sections by Prof. Rania Elanwer

People analytics is a data-driven approach aimed at enhancing people-related decisions to promote both individual and organizational success. While the critical role of people in organizational success has always been acknowledged, many business leaders continue to make key workforce decisions based on intuition or past experience. However, today's leaders can significantly improve their decision-making processes by leveraging the unique opportunities that data analytics offers. Throughout the course, students will be trained to apply analytics to solve HR problems using data-driven methods. ​

Taught Online and Asynchronous Online by Instrs. Marshall Sponder & Tatiana Rodriguez

NEW CLASS! Offered in collaboration with Rutgers Business School and Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, this 3-credit asynchronous course explores how social media shapes professional identity, networking, and digital visibility. Using tools such as Canva, ChatGPT and Notion, students will learn to create a strategic online presence across platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram by developing content, auditing their digital footprints, and curating material to enhance employability.

Various in-person and asynchronous online sections offered

This course explores behavior by individuals and groups in the workplace; group and intergroup dynamics; organizational culture, structure, and change; leadership, employee motivation, job performance, and feedback. ​

Various in-person and asynchronous online sections offered

This course is designed to provide managers with the tools necessary to effectively lead individuals and teams in today’s complex organizational climate. Through simulations, group exercises, discussion, case studies and reading; students will develop their leadership style and capability to supervise, motivate, build teams, manage group dynamics, communicate effectively, and deal with conflict. ​

Various in-person sections offered

Various in-person and asynchronous online sections offered

This course focuses on how the increasing demographic diversity of American workplaces affects social relations, cultural dynamics, and organizational effectiveness.