In recent years, American business application has been a hot major. In addition to financial accounting, which families studying abroad are keen on, the application of human resources has gradually become a hot major. With the continuous development of domestic economy, the demand for most HR talents will gradually increase, and more and more attention will be paid to it, which is undoubtedly a good learning direction for students who return to China for development. What is human resource management?

Human resource management is the sum total of systems, decrees, procedures and methods for effective development, rational allocation, full utilization and scientific management of human resources. It runs through the whole movement process of human resources, including the prediction and planning of human resources, job analysis and design, maintenance and cost accounting of human resources, selection, employment, rational allocation and use of personnel, as well as intellectual development, education and training of personnel, mobilizing people's work enthusiasm, improving people's scientific and cultural quality and ideological and moral consciousness. HR is just a knowledge of personnel management.

(B) the characteristics of human resource management in the United States

1, flexible allocation of human resources

The labor market in the United States is very developed and the competition in the labor market is extremely fierce. Enterprises and individuals have full freedom of choice. Through this two-way choice flow, the optimal allocation of individuals/positions in the whole society can be realized.

2. Institutionalized management based on detailed division of labor.

For example, the recruitment and assessment of employees, the formulation of wages, the distribution of bonuses and the promotion of posts all have scientific basis. The professional management of the company has played a strong monitoring role in the evaluation of professional managers in all walks of life.

3. Staff training system

American enterprises or companies pay attention to the training of employees, especially the training of professional knowledge. If you are familiar with the American HR major, you can definitely see that HR attaches great importance to cultivating students' vocational training at both master's and doctoral levels.

4. Wage system based on strong material incentives.

In the human resource management in the United States, it emphasizes the individual as the center, emphasizes the value of the individual, and mainly takes the individual as the incentive object. Students will learn more about labor relations or wage system during their studies.

(C) the characteristics of human resources courses

There are two versions of HR in the United States: labor relations and human resource management. IR/HR focuses on basic and advanced human resources courses, such as labor relations, collective bargaining, salary, employment management and data-based decision-making. Most American schools, especially those with better rankings, have specialized schools for labor relations/labor relations or are set below business schools, but among the top 50 schools, only the HR of a university in Southern California is in business schools; For those schools ranked after 150, HR is usually attached to the labor relations center or the College of Arts. There is also a major related to organizational behavior of human resources under the Department of Psychology, whose main research content is organizational behavior and operating system. OB/OS and other majors are different from HR to a great extent, and the setting of professional courses is also very different. They pay more attention to organizational psychology, organizational behavior and talent evaluation courses, such as organizational behavior, strategic organization research, organizational change and quality evaluation. This direction is more research-oriented and requires higher academic background for undergraduates.

(D) Employment direction of human resources major

Employment direction of human resources: human resources director, personnel manager, salary manager, training manager and supervisor, recruitment manager and supervisor, enterprise management consulting project research, enterprise senior or professional manager, business department change, management consultant, trainer, professional and knowledge management director.

(5) Information of several representative universities.

1. Cornell University

2. University of Minnesota Twin Cities

3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4. Michigan State University

5. Rutgers University, New Jersey State University

(VI) Requirements for the application of human resources

TOEFL is a necessary score for international students to apply. If you want to apply for the top 50, it is recommended that the TOEFL score be above 105 and the GMAT score be above 700. In addition, HR in some business schools especially like to recruit applicants with work experience, which undoubtedly brings many disadvantages to applicants with pure student background. Therefore, applicants should actively participate in social practice and accumulate university work experience. Of course, it should be based on the enrollment requirements of the school. Work experience is not the decisive criterion for examining students. Everyone should make all preparations that are beneficial to them and improve their competitiveness.

(7) Who can apply for HR?

HR majors often have no high requirements for undergraduate professional background. Common students are: English, Chinese language and literature, psychology, public management, economics and so on.