Emphasizing analytical skills in HR graduate education: The Ohio State University MLHR Program

The masters in Labor and Human Resources Program in the Fisher College of B usiness at The Ohio State University has recently developed and implemented a new graduate curriculum in human resources. Impetus for the new curricul um was the formation of a corporate advisory board. The new curriculum emph asizes analytical and leadership skills as well as the functional content k nowledge needed for graduate students to become effective internal human re source consultants. Both the need for this type of curriculum and the proce ss used to develop the new curriculum is reviewed. (C) 1999 John Wiley & so ns, Inc.