This course provides students with a skills-based orientation to human resource management, especially in a public health or human services setting. Core concepts such as workplace assessment, motivators, human resource planning and recruitment, decentralization, criteria-based position descriptions and performance appraisals, and union management issues are presented via case studies that amplify a systems-oriented public health approach. Using case examples that illustrate basic principles, students develop strategies to improve retention, manage and coordinate human resource problems with the organizational culture in many public health and human service organizations. Workplace enhancers affecting retention, innovative management models, current regulatory and service issues that affect reimbursement, wage and practice in multiple settings are introduced in lecture, discussion, group, and case analysis.

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