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Oct 15, 2024
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PSYCH 153 - Human Relations Credits: 3 Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Description: This course is designed particularly for students in the career curricula. The course focuses upon a better understanding of human behavior as related to interpersonal relations on the job. Foundations of human behavior; strategies for effective human relations; fundamental skills of working as a team leader and team member; and ways of anticipating, preventing and coping with challenges of human relations are major areas of study.
Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Identify key concepts in human relations.
- Examine self-concept and self-esteem in human relations.
- Describe self-awareness and self-disclosure in the workplace.
- Explain the relationship between attitudes and values in human relations.
- Examine theories of motivation.
- Evaluate the role of communication in the workplace.
- Examine leadership styles and strategies.
- Identify the characteristics of emotional intelligence.
- Identify strategies to manage anger and defensiveness.
- Examine life changes, personal change and organizational change.
- Identify creativity in the workplace.
- Examine types and sources of conflict, styles of conflict management and conflict resolution techniques.
- Identify causes and sources of stress, costs of stress in the workplace and coping mechanisms.
- Explain how a diverse society affects human relations.
- Explain ethics and social responsibility.
- Identify characteristics of a productive workplace.
- Explore human resource management practices, including interviewing and appraising employees.
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