Articles of Interest to SFU Staff

HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE CLASSROOM
In an effort to expose her students to the
operational versus the theoretical side of
the human resource function in business,
Dr. Dianne Cyr has been inviting
human resource practitioners to be guest
lecturers. Her students are in third year
Business Administration and they are taking
the human resource course elective.
Although the functional areas within an HR department tend to be similar across business enterprises, there are some differences.
In this regard, Dr. Cyr is asking human
resource staff from different industries to explain how their particular operation functions.
Practitioners from a downtown hotel
have spoken to the students regarding personnel practices in the hotel industry,
and, most recently, Human Resources at
SFU had been asked to provide guest lecturers.
Bob Broad and Sheva Bridgmohan were the
first to be called upon to speak to the 150
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed third year
students. Bob gave an overview of the
function and structure of Human Resources
and Sheva spoke specifically to the staffing
function at SFU. It was interesting to note
that not one of the 150 students were aware
that they could work at SFU as part time,
temporary employees while pursuing their
degree.
The presentation took forty five minutes
and a further fifteen minutes were taken up
with questions about human resources. As
Bob and Sheva were invited back to give the
same lecture next semester, it would seem
that the idea was a success. Other staff from
Human Resources will also be called upon
to speak about their specific functional
area(s) of responsibility.



09/05/1998					comments on this website