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  • 1.  re Combined OB/HR Course

    Posted 12-24-2003 05:03
    From: Vance, Dr. Charles [mailto:cvance@lmu.edu]

    Claudia: You're likely too far along for my input to be useful, but I just
    wanted to share that several years ago we we're trying to teach an HR/OB
    combined course as a core requirement, as a separate class from another core
    requirement of principles of management. We finally concluded that it would
    work much better, since both principles of management and OB foundation
    courses tend to be very principle/theory driven, to combine principles of
    management and OB. And this combined principles of management/OB arrangement
    seems to me to be now the most common with US business schools today,
    especially as I look at current texts. Do you have a principles of
    management course? Until we combined that course with OB we consistently had
    lots of student complaints about the unnecessary overlap between our OB/HR
    course and the principles of management course.

    --Charlie Vance, Loyola Marymount University


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Charles Wankel [mailto:cxx@bellatlantic.net]
    Sent: Thu 12/18/2003 3:08 PM
    To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
    Cc:
    Subject: Combined OB/HR Course
    From: Ferrante Claudia J Civ USAFA/DFM Claudia.Ferrante@USAFA.af.mil

    I am looking for information on a course that combines OB and HR topics. We
    are resequencing our undergraduate curriculum and moving from having OB in
    one semester and HR in a second semester to a course that covers material
    from both courses across 2 semesters. Is anyone doing something similar? If
    so, any information that you would be willing to share would be greatly
    appreciated. Post your responses to Mg-Ed-Dv.

    Thanks in advance,
    Claudia

    Dr. Claudia Ferrante
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Management
    U.S. Air Force Academy
    Claudia.Ferrante@USAFA.af.mil