Teaching

My purpose as an educator is to help students articulate what their dream job is and to give them the tools to obtain it so that they can experience sustainable, fulfilling careers. Each semester, I teach two sections of Human Resource Management (MGT 320) and one section of Intro to Managing & Organizing (MGT 101)

MGT 320: Human Resource Management

Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2025, Spring 2025

Whether you decide to become an HR professional or not, human resources impact every individual: from applying to jobs to undergoing onboarding to completing performance appraisals. Thus, the primary emphasis of this introductory course is to help you understand the central topics related to HR. You will learn how to analyze and design jobs, recruit and select candidates, and manage and compensate employees, among other topics. The curriculum is designed to provide a basic understanding as well as an appreciation of the importance of human resource management.

While this course focuses on human resource management issues, the skills learned will be applicable and valuable to any role. For individuals not intending to go into HR, consider this course an opportunity to understand the mechanisms that decide whether you get the job you want and how your performance and welfare are viewed once you are employed at a company. You will leave this course with tangible work-related materials, including an updated resume, a prepared message for connecting with individuals on LinkedIn, and a refined elevator pitch. The course involves a significant amount of hands-on activities with a competitive team-based HR-simulation, analytics based on real company data, and weekly in-class group activities.

MGT 101: Intro to Managing & Organizing

Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025

About what am I passionate? · How do I want the world to be different because of my influence? · How do I live a meaningful life? · How do I fulfill my potential? · What is my responsibility towards others? · How do I effectively communicate with someone about their impact on me to improve our relationship? · How do I become aware of my impact on others and change it for the better?

I believe pursuing the answers to questions like these is necessary to live a happy, fulfilled, and impactful life. It is my vision that this course will help you begin to discern and, in the future, fulfill your purpose and potential at work and in your life generally—the significant impact you wish to have through your actions, interactions, and organizing with others. I hope to facilitate this by increasing your self-awareness and developing your ability to lead, manage, and “team” to organize with others to have a positive impact in the world through taking responsibility for yourself and your actions.

This course's primary learning objective is to lay the foundation for you to be an effective team and organizational member, which will allow you to become an effective manager. The achievement of this objective will be centered on facilitating your learning and development to effectively organize with others to positively impact others in the Providence College community or the broader community.