2 credits
Fall 2026 Lecture Upper Division
Managers, regardless of your industry, will routinely face HR and employment issues that collide with the law. In this course, we will examine many laws and the practical ways you can stay on the right side of the law. Don't worry, you aren't in a law school class and I don't expect you to become employment attorneys. However, I will help you gain a working knowledge of employment laws including: The Civil Rights Act, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, FLSA, and a host of alphabet soup. We will also apply these laws from posting a job description to recruiting to hiring to employee reviews to terminating an employee. While I can't guarantee you will never be sued by a disgruntled current or former employee, I can help you put yourself and your company in the best possible position to defend that suit. And don't worry: we will look at lots of quick case studies (less than a page) to give you context you can easily remember.
Learning Outcomes1Know about the law of the employment process.
2Know the global principles that apply to corporate managers in the legal context.
3Know about specific human resource management techniques (or methodologies), and apply some to the techniques.
4Know about the importance of legal principles as applied to the employment process.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.