Can anyone suggest HR/ORG Behavior 300/400 level courses?

[mrs.b]

Are you looking for Organizational Behavior, or are you looking for 9 credits / 3 courses for the core electives? Or both?

If you're just looking for Organizational Behavior, your options are pretty wide. Most schools have an online and/or self-paced version of this course, so shop around for pricing and format that best-fits your particular needs.

If you're asking about the 9 credits of core electives - which are in addition to the Organizational Behavior requirement in the degree evaluation - your options are pretty slim. It was my chief complaint with the BSBA-HR/OrgMgmt requirements, because it almost forces you to take a course from TESC. I avoided non-regionally accredited credit sources, so did not take advantage of PF's self-paced versions, but I can tell you I expressed interest and had a few of them approved on my evaluation before changing my gameplan to omit them.

The only CBE option I found was the ECE Labor Relations, and it was not too hard. Get the book, read it, and I strongly recommend their practice exams. I work in HR, but it's a non-union shop so the only training I have in that regard is managerial training for what to watch for and how to behave to avoid a lawsuit if a union or EEs show interest in organizing. I read the book through once, and when I say "read," I skimmed pretty liberally. Much of my study came from a study guide I made for myself from the practice exams, which were well worth the money. The only sections I really read with any solid attention span were those where the practice exam questions seemed to heavily focus. Scored an A and did not sweat my score too much while sitting the exam, unlike most other tests/exams I took (I'm a worrier).

If budget is not an issue, TESC's ePack of Industrial Psychology was one of my other picks, and I really enjoyed it (see this thread yesterday regarding tips and experiences from that http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...ology.html). If you're at all looking at a job in HR, it was an excellent course. I learned quite a bit, despite my initial arrogance with understudying. Even if you do not take it, getting a used version of the book on the cheap could be a fantastic resource to supplement any other HR'ish courses you may take, because it really dives into how to attach measurable metrics to a very difficult-to-measure field. It is priced per credit, so you'll pay the same for it as you will for an online or guided study course, but it is self-paced like a TECEP and delivered in the same manner. The extra cost comes from the chapter practice quizzes you can use as study aids.

My other course for the 9 credits of core electives was Sociology of the Workplace, online course at TESC. But, it's not self-paced and again, pricing was more than I would've felt comfortable with if I had not gotten my money's worth out of Comprehensive Tuition already. I could not find any other self-paced or CBE options to fill that last requirement that met my self-imposed requirement of regional accredition.

PF's Employee Benefits and Compensation Management were the two courses I had approved on my evaluation at one point, though I did not take them. So if that helps, those are possible self-paced options that TESC's Advising group smiled upon (as always with any ACE items, confirm ACE approval dates are still current before commiting).