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This course introduces students to the basic and operational elements of personnel management. Students will be asked to examine the various legal, operational, and psychological considerations essential to good human resource management practice. The course covers a breadth of areas critical to the management of employees in a performance-driven business firm: (1) staffing, recruitment, selection, and hiring, training; (2) benefits and compensation; (2) employee training, development, and career management; (3) employee performance management, evaluation, work ethic, discipline, and termination.

The course also touches briefly on several other human resource issues: internal communication, motivation, group dynamics, workforce demographics, substance abuse in the workplace, affirmative action, employee stress and disability, human resource planning, collective bargaining, work ergonomics and safety, equity considerations, as well as current practices and new developments in personnel management. The course presents these topics in a managerial context: i.e., as responsibilities of a human resource department as well as of operations department heads. Emphasis is placed on practical competencies necessary for effectively management of people, developing leaders, and sustaining high-performance employees.