BUSI 543 - Employee Compensation and Benefits

This course describes the human resource management activity of compensation and benefits administration.  Students will learn about concepts, structures, and practices pertaining to ways organizations reward employees for satisfactory service, incentivize extraordinary service from employees, and promote employees’ welfare and retention by providing various benefits.  Students also learn about strategic and contextual influences on organizations’ compensation practices, including some legislative and regulatory specifics related to certain employee benefits and employee cash wages.  Where relevant, you can expect to address faith integration with the topics, specifically along the lines of what redemptive creation, stewardship, and the Golden Rule have to do with the topic.  This course will be cross-listed with MGMT 443.