They can acquire and evaluate data, organize and maintain files, interpret and communicate, and use computers to process information. Students evaluate current demographic and work force shifts which impact the practice of HRM management in the present and the near future. Students discuss skills assessment, analysis, job descriptions and job specifications, and their impact and importance to the organization. Students discuss validity and reliability in testing and their importance. Students list the elements necessary to maintain an employee handbook and other forms of communication within an organization.
Students identify the major uses of performance appraisals.
Students list characteristics of a legal an effective appraisal system. Students explain the role of labor markets in compensation. Students outline the process of building a wage-salary administration and the laws effecting compensation. Students explain the health and safety factors which effect employees. Students identify the basic provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.