BUS 412/HRM Course Syllabus FA 2018

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1 BUS 412/HRM Course Syllabus FA 2018 Course Title: Human Resource Management Instructor Information: Tedi J. Roach, MS, SPHR, SHRM-SCP. HR Division Manager, Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative, Genesee, ID (PNW). I have been in HR for well, let s just say a long time! Use my tjroach@lcsc.edu as a primary communication address. I can also be reached at tedi@pnw.coop as a secondary source for communication. Please put course title in the subject line if using the second address. You may also call my office at or cell at Contact Hours: I am available by most anytime and check messages daily with a goal response time within 24 hours. If I will be unavailable (I.e. travel or illness) it will be posted via announcements or course mail. If at any time during this class you have questions, having problems on any assignments or within your assigned teams, contact me! Textbook: Text: Human Resource Management Gaining a Competitive Advantage, 10e Author: Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, Wright Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Copyright Year: 2017 ISBN: MHID: Textbook Companion Website/Online Learning Center: *Students should have the assigned textbook the first day of class as course content is focused upon the information and structure of this text. Course Description: The course content will be divided into the following six topic areas of study- Introduction to Human Resource Management; competitive strengths and challenges in today s climate. The Human Resource Environment; strategic, legal, analysis and design. Acquisition and Preparation of Human Resources; planning, recruitment, selection, placement and training. Assessment and Development of Human Resource Management; performance management, development, employee separation and retention. Compensation of Human Resources; pay structure, employee recognition, and benefits. Special Topics in Human Resource Management; collective bargaining and labor relations, global management, and strategic management of HRM.

2 Student Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate a functional understanding of the nature and importance of Human Resource Management in the business environment. Define the functions of Human Resource Management and how each is relevant to the employment relationship. Demonstrate the use of course concepts to solve Human Resource Management problems in a real world setting. Discussions, assignments, quizzes and tests have been created to provide an overall view to you of Human Resource Management. Course Policies and Procedures: Students are bound by all policies of Lewis Clark State College and should familiarize themselves with these through reading the catalog and student handbook. Our BUS 412 class week will run from Monday to Sunday. Each week there will be a new chapter reading with related discussion, timed open book short quiz and selected assignments (excluding exam weeks). Each discussion posting will open at 12:30 am Pacific on Mondays and stay open for 1 week, closing for comments Sundays at 11:59 pm Pacific. There will be discussion topics each week. Assignments will be due Sunday at 11:59 pm Pacific. Some assignments will be done within groups. You will be assessing your group team members; the assessments will factor into your grades. Group assignments will contain links to assessments in SurveyMonkey, and are also due by Sunday at 11:59 pm. You will have points deducted from your assignment grade, if your SurveyMonkey assessments are not completed or are done after 11:59 pm Sunday. Weekly quizzes are timed open book and also due Sunday at 11:59 pm Pacific. Please be sure to utilize a computer which will enable you to complete the quiz. If you are timed out for any reason, the quiz will not be reset for you. There are four exams. All exams will be proctored at a LCSC Distance Learning Testing Center. If you are out of the northern Idaho area it is your responsibility to contact the Distance Learning center about arrangements. Any testing center violations will result in zero points for the proctored exam. Make your appointments for testing dates early in the week, verifying the testing center will be open. Exams must be completed within the scheduled dates. There will be no exceptions. For this reason, it is recommended to not wait until the last minute on the last day to complete your test.

3 Exam Schedule: Exam 1 Available 7:00 am to Noon Monday - Saturday Exam 2 Available 7:00 am to Noon Monday - Saturday Exam 3 Available 7:00 am to Noon Monday - Saturday Exam 4 Available 7:00 am to 8 pm Thursday, Monday - Thursday All exams will open at 7 am Pacific time on the first available date and close at Noon Pacific on the last available date but may have a narrower window depending on student chosen testing centers. Please be sure you know your testing center hours because there will be no exceptions or extended deadlines past the established closing. Be sure to check the available hours with your testing center. Not all centers are open on Saturdays. Final Project Your final project will be a combination of the weekly assignments, both group and individual, placed into a final PowerPoint presentation. Many of the activities will be within groups (simulating an HR department) which will be assigned. It is your responsibility to communicate via LCSC or other means (i.e. Blackboard, Skype, etc.) on a regular basis with your group members, just as you would with HR departments in remote locations, to turn in your assignments on time. Late submissions will not be accepted. The final submission will be a PowerPoint presentation (one for each group). It is expected to address (summarize) the work you completed in your weekly assignments and incorporate items from our discussions and readings. It is a presentation your group, as your HR department, would be giving to your company s executive management team on what HRM activities you have implemented for the company. Some particulars: Use the notes section on each slide for your notes, justifying what is on the slide. It should consist of verbiage you would use to present to the executive team. Include names of team members on each slide they had a part of. No spelling errors! Include references other than the textbook for your material (websites, books, etc.). NO plagiarism! If you use exact words from websites, books, etc., be sure to place them in quotes and reference material on that slide! Your projects and assignments will be checked against a plagiarism verification system. If projects or assignments contain plagiarism, all team members will receive a zero grade for the final project. Have fun and be creative in your presentation! While it is a presentation you will not actually be giving, treat it as it was something you would actually present to your company s executive team. Do not use this as simply a description of what you learned in the class. Your note sections on each slide page must be worded as though they are explaining what new procedures you may be implementing (i.e. steps to undertake if there is an attempt at unionization).

4 Group Member Assessments Part of the group and final projects will be completing assessments you are to assess each of your team members involvement in group assignments and final PowerPoint presentation. Assessments are to be completed via SurveyMonkey; there are links for your assessment within the assignment postings. People who participate little or not at all in group assignments will be graded accordingly. Please follow instructions on the surveys when completing them. Be honest I will not be telling each of you specifically how your team members rated you. Use this as an opportunity to practice doing performance evaluations (which we will be covering during the class). It is best to be honest with one s performance, rather than just pencil whipping and saying a person has stellar performance 100% of the time. Attendance Policy: Students officially enrolled in this course at the time final grades are issued will be awarded a final grade, whether or not the student has participated in any class activities. No absences, whether approved by the College for participation in College sponsored activities, or necessitated by sickness or other personal emergency, are excused in the sense of relieving the student of responsibility for work assigned for the class during absence. If you elect to complete extra credit work to replace points missed or to simply add points to your overall grade, that will be allowed at any time during the semester until the cut-off time. Please refer to the calendar in this syllabus for the last day extra credit work is to be submitted. Although sympathetic to personal problems, exceptions to class deadlines are rare as this course is already designed to offer the student as much flexibility as possible. Extra credit points may be available throughout the semester. You can use these to add additional points to your overall grade, either as make-up points for any scheduled work not completed, or increasing overall points accrued. Participation Policy: In an online class it is essential that students are active in various discussion topics to show their understanding and give valuable input to the class as a whole. Discussion topics will be instructor led and monitored. Students are expected to participate with an original posting and follow-up postings related to the discussion. Responses should be in complete sentences and please be sure to completely address the topic in your original posting. Discussion grades are based upon quality and relevance, not quantity. To get maximum credit, responses must add value to the topic by building on the previous response(s) through increased development of a previous idea, challenging an idea or concept, or relaying a personal experience as it relates a different perspective to a previous classmate response. Students are expected to read a high majority of student postings. Discussion responses must be relevant and professional. Unprofessional responses may get participation discussion points deducted and I will shut down any threads I deem inappropriate. Course Deadlines: For quick reference on any grade deadlines throughout the semester, consult the Course Due Dates tool located in Student Tools. This can be a great planning tool. Late postings will not be accepted for credit. If you have missed assignments or wish to complete extra credit items, it is your responsibility to contact me with a request to do so. Such requests

5 must be made prior to Thanksgiving week, to ensure there is adequate time for extra assignments to be graded. Grading: Course grades will be based upon the following system: 15%: Participation in Discussion topics = 75 points (15 at 5 points each) 15%: Open-book, timed quizzes = 75 points (15 at 5 points each) 11%: Assignments = 55 points (11 at 5 points each) 48%: Tests = 240 points (4 at 60 points each) 11%: PowerPoint project & team member assessments = 55 points The calendar matrix contains a listing of dates and work to be completed. Please follow this, to keep up on your class work. You will see there is a line which lists points which can be attained by the midterm as well as the total for the entire course; you can gauge your progress accordingly. At Midterm, the grading scale will be based on a maximum of 225 points: A A B B B C C D F 134 and below The final grading scale will be based upon a maximum of 500 points: A A B B B C C D F 299 and below Grades will be posted in the student grade section in Blackboard. I will make every attempt to have grades posted within one week of the due date. Computer Compatibility: It is the student s responsibility to maintain internet and browser compatibility to successfully complete the requirements for this course. If difficulties occur it is up to the student to notify and

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7 A. Accounting (ACT) B. Marketing (MKT) C. Finance (FIN) D. Management HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (BUS 412) CPC Component 1. Management Principles (MGT) 2. Organizational Behavior (OB) 3. Human Resource Management (HRM) 4. Operations Management (OM) Total Management E. Economic/Social/Legal Environment 1. Legal Environment of Business (LAW) 2. Economics (ECN) 3. Business Ethics (ETH) Total Economic/Social/Legal Environment F. Decision-Support Tools Hours Information Systems (IS) 2. Quantitative Methods/Statistics (QM) Total Decision-Support Tools 1 G. Global Dimensions of Business (GLOB) H. Integrative Experience (INT) 1 Total Contact Hours 62 Note: The normal range for the contact hour totals for an individual course is in a semester program, although for some integrative courses, the total may be higher. The normal range for the contact hour totals for an individual CPC area is from approximately 30 to over 100 in a semester program. In both cases, the assumption involves 45 class contact hours during a semester. This matrix is an excellent way to review the academic content of a degree program

8 Fall 2018 Bus Week Dates Chapter Discussion Assignment Quiz Exam Other 1 Aug 20 1 Y Ind 1 Sept 2 2 Aug 27 2 Y Group 2 Sept 2 3 Sept 3 3 Y Ind Sept Y ,2, to Sept 17 6 Y Ind 5, Sept 24 7 Y Group Oct Y Group 8 8 Oct 8 9 Y ,6,7,8 Midterm to Points: Oct Y Group 9, Oct Y Ind Oct Y Group 12 Nov 4 12 Nov Y ,10,11, to Nov Y Group 13, Nov 19 Thanksgiving Nov Y Ind 15,16 Dec 2 16 Dec Final project due 11:59 pm Dec Y ,14,15, to Exam 7 am to 5 pm Dec 10 to 13 Total Points Possible Project = 55 Total = 500 We are skipping chapter 4. Each week opens at 12:30 Monday mornings & closes 11:59 pm the following Sunday. All discussions, quizzes & assignments & group grading assignments must be done by the close on Sunday. No late submissions will be accepted for grades. Exams open from 7 am Monday mornings until Noon Saturdays PACIFIC time. The only exception is the final exam which closes Thursday. It is your responsibility to arrange test times with your proctor.

9 Academic Dishonesty: (Taken directly from the Student Code of Conduct) Cheating or plagiarism in any form is unacceptable. The College functions to promote the cognitive and psychosocial development of all students. Therefore, all work submitted by a student must represent his/her own ideas, concepts and current understanding. Academic Dishonesty will not be tolerated and includes: a) Cheating- intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. The term academic exercise includes all forms of work submitted for credit hours. b) Fabrication- intentional and/or unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or the source of any information in an academic exercise. c) Collusion facilitating academic dishonesty- intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of Academic Dishonesty. d) Plagiarism- the deliberate adoption or reproduction of ideas or words or statement of another person as one s own without acknowledgment.

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Office Hours: Day Time Location TR 12:00pm - 2:00pm Main Campus Carl DeSantis Building 5136 FIN 3110 - Financial Management I. Course Information Course: FIN 3110 - Financial Management Semester Credit Hours: 3.0 Course CRN and Section: 20812 - NW1 Semester and Year: Fall 2017 Course Start and