Master's Degree of Human Resources and Labor Relations
Program Description | Curriculum | Career Opportunities | Master's in Human Resources Application | Executive Education in Human Resources Application
Busy professionals in the Gulf region who wish to develop or enhance their skills in human resources can conveniently earn a Master's degree of Human Resources and Labor Relations from one of the top five graduate human resources and labor relations (HR/LR) programs in the United States. Michigan State University graduates in this program have long been recruited by Fortune 500 companies and smaller, high-growth companies, as well as nonprofit organizations.
Located in Dubai at Academic City, our internationally acclaimed Master's in Human Resources program offers you:
- The same outstanding curriculum in Human Resources found at MSU's main campus-graduates will earn a human resources master's degree from MSU
- Instruction from some of the same dedicated and renowned faculty who teach in East Lansing
- Classes scheduled to allow working professionals to complete their degree in a year and a half to four years, depending on full-time or part-time levels of attendance
- Unmatched, hands-on knowledge and skills of immediate value to working students and their employers
- An in-depth understanding of HR and LR, as well as the statistical tools and metrics essential to evaluating the effects of policies and practices on organizational performance
- Excellent returns on your investment
Gain the essential skills you need to become a leading professional in HR/LR.
Through a variety of practical assignments and projects-such as case analyses and group assignments-students bring immediate benefit to their employers and also learn how to:
- Structure policies and practices to build workforce competencies, motivation, innovation, and commitment
- Align HR/LR strategies with business and operational strategies
- Assess the value added from HR/LR practices in creating high-performance work systems
- Act strategically in response to rapidly changing global environments
- Comply with employment and labor laws
- Create effective labor-management relations
Faculty members are distinguished scholars and have impressive credentials in diverse academic backgrounds such as:
- Economics
- Industrial and labor relations
- Organizational behavior
- Human resources
- Compensation
- Labor law
- Employment and training