HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

REVISED SYLLABUS

William Holmes, Office: W4-144/31; Hours: M, T, 4:15-5:45; Phone: 617-287-7328; Email: william.holmes@umb.edu; Website: http://www.faculty.umb.edu/william_holmes/

Discussions. Students are expected to participate in discussions. For each session, a student should have identified one issue they consider important to that topic and pose a question for that issues. Students may also pose questions regarding assigned web page content or other issues related to that week’s topic.

Plagiarism. Students may not copy other’s work, unless they are working as a group and submit the results as a group. All sources quoted or paraphrased should be cited. Complete references must be provided for works cited.

Assignments. There are four assignments for students working on the human resource management competency: a job description, a hiring process summary, a summary of compensation and benefit issues, and a discussion of labor/management relations. These assignments are to be done for an organization of the student’s choice, but they must be done for the same organization for each assignment. In addition, students who are also working on a management competency will need to do a fifth assignment. For their fifth assignment they will summarize an organization’s mission and goals and discuss a possible use of strategic planning for the organization.

1. Job Description. Choose a particular job in your example agency. For that job describe the tasks the person has to perform, skills needed, and education or experience required. Avoid language that would be discriminatory, prejudicial, or illegal.

2. Hiring Process Summary. For the job described in assignment one, describe the process used by your agency for hiring someone into that position. Include information that must be submitted, to whom, and by what means. Describe the interview process, what additional information is obtained by this process, and how it is used to reject or select candidates. List three questions that should not be asked of a job applicant. Also describe who makes the final hiring decision.

3. Compensation and Benefit Summary. Describe a typical compensation and benefit package for the job described. Discuss salary range and factors affecting starting salary. Summarize health and education benefits, vacation, personal days, promotion possibilities, and retirement options.

4. Labor Relations Summary. List three laws that apply to the job you have been discussing (at least one must be a federal law and at least one must be a state law). Discuss how the laws apply your job. Give an example for each law of a management practice that would violate the law.

5. Mission, Goals, Strategic Planning Discussion (management competency only). Provide a mission statement and a list of goals for your chosen agency. Discuss how a strategic plan can be used to help the agency achieve its mission and its goals. This assignment may be provided as three separate documents, a single document, or as a portfolio.

Required Readings, Mundy and Mundy, Human Resource Management, 10th edition. Prentice Hall. For those students working on a management competency, the attached websites are also required readings.

Topics

1. Human Resource Overview, M&N, c1

2. Human Resource Environments, c2

3. Job Specification, M&N, c4

4. Recruitment, M&N, c5

Job Description Due

5. Equal Employment Opportunity, c3

6. Hiring, c6

7. Job Training, c7

Hiring Process Summary Due

8. Career Development, Appendix to c7

9. Performance Evaluation, c8

10. Compensation and Benefits, c9 and c10

11. Work Environment Safety and Health, c11

Summary of Compensation and Benefit Issues

12. Labor/Management Relations, c12

13. Employee Relations, c13

Discussion of Labor/Management Relations Due

14. Global Human Resource Issues, c14

Mission Statement, Goals, and Strategic Plan Discussion Due (Management competency only).