ECON 326 Economics of Human Resource Management

An application of economic analysis to various topics in personnel economics including compensation and incentives hiring training downsizing/buyouts stock options pensions and teams among many others. In order to add realism to and applications for the analysis students will discuss and evaluate numerous real-world mini-cases and more formal case studies. Students will be evaluated on the quality of their written work problem sets examinations and discussion and a variety of class formats will be used.