Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus

MGT 283 - Personnel Administration

-The Internet Course

Spring 2002 Semester

Instructor: Michael D. Downey, MPA, Ph.D.

Telephone: 775-445-4415 (Work)

Required Texts: Managing Human Resources, Third Edition, Luis R. Gomez-Mejia, David B. Balkin and Robert L. Cardy, Prentice Hall, 2001.

The Manager's Bookshelf, A Mosaic of Contemporary Views, Sixth Edition, Jon L. Pierce and John W. Newstrom, Prentice Hall, 2001.

About The Course. This course is designed as an overview of personnel administrative principals delivered via the Internet. Except for the teaching pedagogy (that is, the teaching method), this course will give you the same background in management as the traditional course taught on campus.

Any Distance Education course will require you to be more responsible for your learning experience than traditional classes. This "Active Learning" mode is even more important in an Internet class. You must be very much "pro-active" in doing your reading and assignments, in asking questions when you have problems, and keeping up with the deadlines that have been established for the course.

The course is structured into Five parts: (1) Introduction to Human Resource Management, (2) Staffing, (3) Employee Development, (4) Compensation, and (5) Governance. Within each part you will several Modules that will introduce a major concept(s), will list objectives and will include study notes and assignments. At the end of each Part you will have a "time sensitive" Quiz. In addition to the Quizzes, you will have to participate in four Chat Sessions and a final project (read Final Take Home Test).

Course Schedule – Is as follows.

Module	Assignment	Due Date
Welcome & Orientation	Do Assignments 1-4	January 23^rd
1. Human Resource Challenges	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	January 25^th
2. Managing the Structure & Flow of Work	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	January 30^th
3. Equal Opportunity & Legal Environment	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	February 4^th
4. Managing Diversity	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback Quiz One	February 9^th February 10^th & 11^th
5. Recruiting, Selecting & Socializing Employees	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	February 18^th
6. Separations, Downsizing & Outplacements	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	February 22^nd
7. Appraising Performance & Training	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	February 28^th
8. Careers	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback Quiz Two	March 1^st March 8th & 9^th
9. Compensation & Performance	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	March 15th
10. Designing & Administering Benefits	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	March 28^th
11. Employee Relations & Communication	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	April 2^nd
12. Employee Rights & Discipline	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback Quiz Three	April 8^th April 11^th & 12^th
13. Organized Labor	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	April 18^th
14. Workplace Safety	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback	April 24^th
15. International HRM Challenges	Post Assignment, Read/Post Feedback Quiz Four	April 30^th May 3^rd & 4^th
16. Final	Final Project	May 13^th

Course Grade - Your course grade will be determined on the following: The four quizzes equal 400 points, Module assignments equal 300 points, a participation grade based on the Assigned Chat Sessions (see Chat Session Schedule & Reading Assignments) equal 100 points and the final project equals 100 points, for a course total points possible of 900.

Final grades will be determine by the following scale:

Grades	Scale	Grade Point Value
A Superior	900-855 Points	4.0
A-	854-810 Points	3.7
B+	809-783 Points	3.3
B Above Average	782-756 Points	3.0
B-	755-720 Points	2.7
C+	719-693 Points	2.3
C Average	692-666 Points	2.0
C-	665-630 Points	1.7
D+	629-603 Points	1.3
D Below Average	602-576 Points	1.0
D-	575-540 Points	0.7
F Failure	539 Points & Below	0.0