Use of microeconomic theory to analyze how firms make decisions involving human resources, including recruiting and hiring strategies, training and investment in worker skills, evaluating and motivating worker performance, and job design. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Economics 376M (Topic 1) and 376N may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Economics 420K, 420S, 421K, or Finance 321K with a grade of at least C-.