Human Resources’ Role in Today’s Workplace
This foundation course provides you with an overview of the human resources function
and the key roles and responsibilities for helping an organization become an industry
employer of choice. Class discussions focus on a variety of topics, including recruiting
and retention, managing a diverse workforce, legal issues, compensation, safety issues,
performance management, and future trends in human resources.
Workplace Applications:
- Understand the purpose of human resources management within the organization
- Demonstrate an understanding of employment and labor law
- Develop a successful recruiting strategy
- Understand the value of the training process
- Create an environment that retains top talent
- Implement a successful safety management program
Course Pre-work: Read Chapter 1: Human Resource Management in Organizations, and Chapter 3: Equal Employment Opportunity
Required Textbook: Human Resources Management, 15th Edition. Authors: Robert L. Mathis,
John H. Jackson and Sean R. Valentine. This book is available through Cengagebrain or Amazon.
Legal Issues for HR Professionals
Each day, HR professionals interpret a variety of state, federal and local laws associated
with various employment-related situations. This course will assist you in becoming
better informed about how your role and responsibilities can impact the organization’s
overall bottom line. You’ll also learn how written policies and procedures impact
employees and the organization, and how you can minimize the company’s exposure to
costly employee lawsuits and administrative fees.
Workplace Applications:
- Realize the various legal considerations of hiring, promotion and termination issues
- Correct structuring of employee handbooks, documentation and employment policies
- Distinguish between state and federal regulations and guidelines for anti-discrimination
laws
- Conduct workplace investigations and understand how to effectively deal with employee
privacy issues
Course Pre-work: Read Chapter 3: Recruiting and Hiring, and Chapter 5: Verifying Eligibility to Work
Required Textbook: 2020 California Labor Law Digest. Order the textbook online or call 800-331-8877 to receive a student discount. Please request the newest version
available.
Talent Acquisition & Retention Strategies
In this course, you will learn about legal considerations in employment to keep your
company safe. We will discuss the importance of company culture and ideas on how to
create a talent acquisition strategy. You will learn how to develop a recruiting plan
that quickly and efficiently attracts and retains the workforce talent that your organization
needs to succeed in today’s competitive workplace. In-class discussions and projects
will incorporate your own work-related situations and highlight ways to simultaneously
increase the candidate selection pool, heighten employee loyalty and improve retention
rates.
Workplace Applications:
- Awareness of legal considerations in employment
- Crafting a talent acquisition strategy
- Developing a recruiting plan that efficiently attracts top talent
- Incorporating various assessments to increase your selection success rate
- Creating a culture to retain top talent
Course Pre-work: Read Chapter 3: Equal Employment Opportunity
Required Textbook: Human Resources Management 15th Edition. Authors: Robert L. Mathis,
John H. Jackson and Sean R. Valentine. This book is available through Cengagebrain or Amazon.
Performance Management
Creating effective systems that provide the information necessary to manage employee
performance is more critical than ever. You will learn strategies and methods for
evaluating performance and diagnosing performance problems, interpersonal skills and
competencies for improving communication with employees, and coaching and counseling
techniques that make performance interventions more effective.
Workplace Applications:
- View performance management as a systematic process
- Link individual performance to organizational goals and objective
- Effectively design performance appraisal tools
- Enhance coaching skills to make performance interventions more effective
- Handle terminations and disciplinary actions with confidence
Course Pre-work: Read Chapter 10: Performance Management Chapter and Appraisal
Required Textbook: Human Resources Management 15th Edition. Authors: Robert L. Mathis,
John H. Jackson and Sean R. Valentine. This book is available through Cengagebrain or Amazon.
Training & Development 2.0
This highly interactive course will provide you with knowledge of current trends in
training and development and gives you hands-on experience in applying the major elements
of training. This includes conducting a needs assessment, designing and developing
a training module, facilitating training and applying the best evaluation methodologies
to measure the effectiveness of your training. You will be able to link training to
your organization’s business objectives, training and development strategy and employees’
development needs.
Workplace Applications:
- Use a performance consulting approach to determine if training is the right solution
to a performance issue
- Conduct a needs analysis to identify gaps in performance
- Write measurable learning objectives
- Design a training module
- Facilitate an organization development intervention
- Define four levels of evaluation and use two of them
- Give constructive feedback in evaluating a training design
Required Textbook: There is no textbook required for this course
Benefits Fundamentals
Explore the use of benefits and services that meet both your employees’ needs and
company’s vision. Class discussions will focus on various welfare (life insurance,
medical, dental, vision) and pension plans, pricing strategies, employee services
and how to administer each. You will also learn about the latest innovations in benefits
and services that other companies have installed as part of their total benefits package.
Workplace Applications:
- Incorporate appropriate government regulations of benefits plans
- Know the difference and applications for health, welfare and retirement plans
- Administer and communicate employee benefits
- Analyze employee benefits programs and identify the critical issues associated with
different types of benefits
Required Textbook: How to Series for the HR Professional, Employee Benefit Basics
(e-Book). Please purchase this textbook online prior to the first class meeting.
Compensation Fundamentals
In today’s economy, it is critical for an organization to offer a competitive compensation
package that is appealing to potential employees as well as cost effective for the
company. This course covers the essentials of compensation management, including organizational
strategies; program development and design; important terms and definitions; and a
review of the related legal environment. You will use examples from your own work
environments to immediately integrate your new knowledge and skills into your compensation
responsibilities.
Workplace Applications:
- Identify and use competitive practice information
- Know applicable government regulations, including reporting and disclosure requirements
- Review variable pay programs and how to create an appropriate pay structure design
- Understand and apply appropriate job analysis and evaluation processes
- Realize the importance of identifying the organization’s philosophy, objectives and
strategy
Required Textbook: Human Resources Management 15th Edition. Authors: Robert L. Mathis,
John H. Jackson and Sean R. Valentine. This book is available through Cengagebrain or Amazon.
The Strategic Role of Human Resources*
*This is a capstone course for the program. Students must have completed all other
courses before enrolling in this course.
This capstone course integrates all of the program courses and provides strategies
and skills needed to position HR as a strategic partner in the organization. HR professionals
will need to be knowledgeable about addressing issues such as change management, appropriate
restructuring options, and essential core competencies needed for the organization’s
employees. In this class, you will focus on measuring HR’s overall effectiveness in
implementing initiatives such as change management, restructuring options and developing
the core competencies of a successful senior-level HR professional.
Workplace Applications:
- Learn how to conduct and utilize a SWOT analysis
- Distinguish between the three major business strategies: low-cost leadership, differentiation
and customer relationship
- Prepare an HR action plan that is aligned with the business plan
- Use power and influence to significantly increase the likelihood of getting people
to do what you need them to do
- Address the challenges and strategies for managing a change initiative
- Developing and leveraging a strategic mindset
Required Textbook: There is no textbook required for this course
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