该专业领域专注于管理人员，组织的人力资源。这些课程超越了常识和良好的人际交往能力，为学生提供了招募，选择，培训，评估和补偿员工的知识。学生将学习工作场所的变化（例如政府法规，全球竞争，发展的技术和组织变革）如何影响工人的绩效和生产力。与多元文化劳动力打交道的技术知识和实践技能为学生提供了有关领导力的新思路和管理人力资源的有效工具。
As society's challenges have become more complex, the need has grown for socially conscious citizens with an avid interest in politics, foreign affairs, and public policy to step up and take a lead role in government management. National University's Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree program will prepare you to do just that.<br><br>This curriculum focuses on how to apply traditional business skills (financial management, budgeting, research, etc.) to the unique challenges of public administration. Among the skills youll be taught are how to utilize critical thinking and research methods, assess new public management, analyze political influences and governmental power division, evaluate government employees and public administration strategies and decision, and synthesize grant proposal resources and approaches.<br><br>To be awarded a Master of Public Administration, students must complete at least 54 quarter units of graduate work. A total of 13.5 quarter units of graduate credit may be granted for equivalent graduate work completed at another institution, as it applies to this degree and provided the units were not used in earning another advanced degree.<br><br>The Human Resource Management (HRM) specialization prepares you to manage people, their needs, and their organizational performance. Coursework focuses on recruiting, selecting, training, evaluating, and compensating employees. Youll explore changes in the workplace such as governmental regulations, global competition, developing technologies, and organizational transformations and their influence on worker performance. With technical knowledge and practical skills for supporting a multicultural workforce, youll be ready to bring new ideas, efficient tools, and leadership skills to managing an organization's most valuable resource: its people.