Specific topics include job analysis, performance evaluation, and test validation. The implications of the fair employment movement for organizational staffing are emphasized. An examination of the process of collective bargaining. Labor contract negotiations, grievances, and arbitration are analyzed by use of the case method, text, readings, and management and labor representatives presenting their points of view. An examination of the causes of conflict between employers and employees, organized and unorganized, and appropriate remedies for this conflict.
Students obtain training in decision making regarding actual problems.