HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM

Doctor of Philosophy in Health Care Administration

HCA 900

Breyer State University
Instructor: Oz Inanli, Ph.D., M.S., B.S.

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: This is a ten-hour Doctoral Level course in the curriculum for the Doctoral Degree, Health Care Administration. This course is a combination of theoretical and practical approaches to human resource management. It focuses on the management processes necessary to develop and nourish the employee so as to realize his/her maximum potential within the organization. Topics include job design, employee selection, employee development, employee appraisal and employee termination. Additionally, it explores federal statutes relating to EEO, Affirmative Action, OSHA, and labor unions and discusses employee compensation and fringe benefit packages. It is my pleasure to instruct you in this course.

TIME FRAME: This is a ten-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your textbook has arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless you have good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded ten semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOK: You have one (1) required textbook.

Book 1: Personnel/Human Resource Management, Environments and Functions. By Scarpello and Ledvinka. PWS-Kent Publishing Company: 1988. ISBN # 0-534-08346-3.

This is a highly regarded textbook and is used in graduate level by many major academic institutions in the U.S.A. and overseas. You may be able to find the book at your local bookstore. It is also available for purchasing at:

Amazon.com at
www.amazon.com

Barnes & Nobel at
www.bn.com

Borders Books at
www.borders.com

SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES:

A-Books:

Book 1: Human Resource Management, A General Manager's Perspective. By Beer, Spector, Lawrence, Mills and Walton. The Free Press; New York: 1985.

Book 2: Managing Workforce 2000. By Jamieson, D. & O'Mara, J. , Jossey-Bass. San Francisco: 1991.

Book 3: Management of Organization Behavior. By Hersey, P., & Blanchard, K. H. Prentice-Hall, 5th edition; Englewood Cliffs: 1988.

B-Journals:

1). Academy of Management Journal.
2). Academy of Management Review.
3). American Behavioral Scientist.
4). Human Factors.
5). Human Relations.
6). Harvard Business Review.
7). Human Resource Management.
8). Personnel Administrator.
9). Personnel Journal.
10).Personnel Management.

C-Online Resources:

Human Resource Management Library at
www.mapnp.org/library/hr_mgmnt/hr_mgmnt.htm.

Workforce Information on Employment Law, HRD and HRM at
www.workforceonline.com.

COURSE ACTIVITIES TO MEET OBJECTIVES AND GRADING:

Most significant learning's from the textbook: You are required to read the entire book. As you read the text, keep an account of the points and lessons that stir an inspirational reaction in you -- those learning's that you would like to put into your fund of knowledge as a manager. Once you have chosen ten points, write them down in a paragraph using your own style that they will be more easily retained. Once the points have been clearly written, apply them in another paragraph to your own setting at work in order to demonstrate their value in terms of potential improved performance, dignity and morale or workers, meaningfulness of the work itself etc.

All submissions should be typewritten and double spaced and no more than five pages long. This will consist of 10% of your total grade and it is due at the end of week six.

Case Assessment Report: I derived a case from one of my current consulting projects and I am the author of this case. It is in the heath care industry and can be located in the assignment section of the classroom. You are asked to analyze the case from the HRM perspective and then make recommendations. I also attached information about how to analyze a case. All case reports will be located in the assignment section of the classroom.

This report should not be longer than five pages, typed and double-spaced. It will be 20% of your total grade. It is due at the end of week four.

Individual Project: You are required to prepare a written project after picking a topic in HRM area. Project topics must be cleared by me no later than at the end of week two. Papers are to use primary as well as secondary data and to follow behavioral and social science design. Papers must be written according to APA style. In terms of format, the paper should include:

1). Table of Contents.
2). Body with appropriate references.
3). Conclusions.
4). References. (use at least ten)

Topics must be applied in nature. The paper must have focus and depth. Although length of paper will vary, it is expected that an average length paper should be about fifteen pages. This project is due the last week of class (week ten) and its weight in your total grade is 70%.

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

COMMUNICATION: Do not hesitate to communicate with me. Remember, I am here to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. I prefer communicating through e-mail. However, I am also available for conversation by phone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I can meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information if such chat sessions are scheduled. I have two e-mail addresses and you can use. Upon registration, you will receive both of my e-mail addresses. When e-mailing, always include your name and the course name in your e-mail message to me, as I may not recognize your e-mail name.

Follow these rules:

1). Do not send e-mail that does not include the course name and section in the subject line. Sign your e-mail messages, as I do not know you by your e-mail address, or user name.

2). Do not use short cuts in your communications. For example "b/c" for because or "u" for you.

3). Use appropriate academic language. No profanity allowed, this includes writing in punctuation like #$%@.

FEEDBACK POLICY: I respond to any e-mail within twenty-four hours or less. Weekends I reserve the right to wait until Monday to respond.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: I am currently a management consultant at Horwath International and teach graduate courses at two academic institutions. I received my Ph.D. in last March. The Dissertation topic was " Discriminatory Preferences Based on Ethnicity Among the Hiring Executives in the Southern United States". My executive and managerial experiences were largely cumulated in hospitality management, credit, collections and human resource management areas. Bell South, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Nortel, Dayton-Hudson are a few of many of the clients for consulting services. Red Lobster, Malone's Restaurants, Rio Bravo de Cantina, Turkart and Target are some of the companies that I worked with. I am the author of four scientific and fictional articles. The two of them were published by the Worldview Magazine, Volume II, Issue 1, a magazine which is sponsored by Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. The other two articles are currently under review. In addition, I wrote a winning grant proposal for a foreign government. I currently live in East Tennessee area. Moreover, I am a former soccer referee and breed dogs. (Afghan, pekingese and German shepherd).

ENTRANCE COMPETENCIES: It is expected that through prior graduate courses, you will be familiar with the basic concepts and theories of:

1). The historical background of management theory.
2). Basic psychology and sociology and how they impact on the organization.
3). The roots of behavioral school: namely , the Hawthorne Studies, Mary Parker Follett, Chester Barnard, and Rensis Likert.
4). Human Resource function in organizations.
5). The scientific method for basic research.
6). Basic administrative/managerial practices.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The goal of this course is to develop an understanding of how the major Human Resource functions-recruitment & selection, performance appraisal, training & development, compensation, labor relations-are affected and must change with changes in the environment. Changing legislation and evolving value systems have made HR an increasingly complex management function.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1). Define your own philosophy of human resource management.
2). Properly apply federal legislation as it relates to hiring, promoting, disciplining, and terminating employees.
3). Define and evaluate different approaches to disciplinary action.
4). Develop procedures for employee termination.
5). Outline the steps in job analysis and job design.
6). Develop procedures for an employee selection process.
7). Develop and evaluate performance appraisal programs.
8). Recognize and evaluate different compensation programs.
9). Evaluate employee benefit programs.
10). Discuss safe work environment issues.
11). Define the key components in the collective bargaining process.
12). Develop an effective employee orientation process.
13). Discuss employee development programs.

CRITERIA FOR SATISFACTORY PROJECTS AND REPORTS:

Presentation:

1). Grammatical accuracy, punctuation, spelling (I will return your papers ungraded if there are many errors. You will have to correct them and resubmit).
2). Physical appearance: typed, double spaced, standard margins.

Organization:

1). Logical development of ideas.
2). Clarity and avoidance of extraneous information of ideas.
3). Conclusions consistent with the arguments and evidence that you present.
4). Sustained analysis of complex issues until all key components are identified.
5). Analogizing/generalizing principles to new situations.

Technical Support:

1). Appropriate citations.
2). Charts and diagrams as appropriate.

Objectives:

1). Clearly stated and summarized.

Basic Knowledge of Subject (demonstrates recall and recognition).

1). Facts.
2). Terminology.
3). Systems.
4). Inter-relationships.
5). Theories.

Advanced Understanding of Subject (demonstrates potential for bringing knowledge to bear on problems or issues).

1). Interpretation: restatement.
2). Application: use in new problems or settings.
3). Analysis: why and how.
4). Synthesis: new adaptations or new combinations of procedures, etc.
5). Evaluation: value.

GENERAL POLICIES:

Late Work: In fairness to everyone in the class, late work is not acceptable. All assignments must be completed during the assigned times. If a conflict exists and there is an acceptable justification for it, you are responsible to contact me about making up the work. Late assignments/works automatically lose one (1) letter grade. Make ups need to be completed within one week of the missed deadline.

Extra Credit: There is no extra credit work available.

Academic Honor/Integrity: You are expected to do your own work, on all assignments. By being a student at Breyer State University, you pledge that you will neither knowingly give or receive any inappropriate assistance in academic work, thus affirming your personal commitment to honor and integrity.

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