BUSN 128 - Staffing Organizations

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This course examines the process of acquiring, deploying and retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization’s effectiveness. Emphasis will be placed on designing and managing successful processes, while dealing with environmental challenges such as laws, regulations, current labor market, and organizational control. Strategic, technological, legal and practical issues confronting organizations and their staffing systems will be explored. 

Note Spring semester only.

Text
Phillips, J. M. (2023).  Strategic staffing (5th ed.).  University Park, IL: Chicago Business Press.

Objectives
The student will be able to: 

A. Interpret various staffing models and their strategies. 

B. Discuss the importance of legal compliance, planning and job analysis within the staffing model. 

C. Identify and explain the affects of various internal and external selection techniques. 

D. Perform simulated employment decisions based on an organizational match. 

E. Explain the staffing system and importance of retention management.

Content
A. Staffing models and strategies 

B. Legal compliance, planning, and job analysis 

C. Measurement, internal, and external selection 

D. Employment: decision making and the final match 

E. Staffing system and retention management 

Student Evaluation
Student grades will be based on a combination of quizzes, a minimum of 4 exams including a comprehensive final, simulation exercises, and projects.