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COURSE SYLLABUS: Human Resource Management

Course Title:	RS562 - Human Resource Management
Department:	Rehabilitation Services and Administration
Instructor:	Dan Thorne, M.S., M.F.T. - E-mail | Vita

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This graduate course explores the management of Human Resources, with particular focus on health care service environments. This course will provide the agency manager or administrator with a framework for human resource decision-making and regulatory compliance, an understanding of employee development, coaching and appraisal, and employee compensation. The recruitment and selection process will be explored as well as working with healthcare unions, working with interns and volunteers, and the contributions of clients in recovery as workforce participants.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Analyze the role of managers in supporting the human resource function within an organization.
• Describe the process of job analysis and job design. Analyze various methods for recruitment, staffing, and retention in health care agencies.
• Relate methods of employee development and performance appraisal to the various job levels in a health care service setting.
• Identify the ways that human resource professionals can support productivity and career development within the organization.
• Examine how the compensation and reward systems can meet the needs of current employees and also attract new employees.
• Discuss the issues and considerations of managing a unionized work environment in health care service settings.
• Identify aspects of personnel management that pertain to categories of licensed personnel, unlicensed individuals including volunteers, lay therapists, clients in recovery, and therapy interns in health care settings.

REQUIRED TEXT:   Online Bookstore
Human Resources Management, 5th edition, by Wendell French. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002/2003. ISBN: 0618123350

SUPPLEMENTAL:
Students are encouraged to access supplemental material from health care literature including texts, journal articles, and the Internet. See week one, #1 Assignments for supplemental information at the textbook site and other sources.

ASSIGNMENTS:
Each week there will be a reading assignment followed by a written assignment. Read the chapters carefully, highlight important points, then review the materials before doing the written assignment. The reading assignment includes everything in the chapters, as well as the introduction and cases. The cases are very important as they present actual organizational situations that can be learned from and extrapolated into the health care service environment.

There is an exam taken from the textbook in week 4 and also in week 8. These midterm and final examinations will be available through the exam secure access for students in plenty of time. If for some reason you cannot access the exam, please contact the instructor and request that it be made available for you. The midterm and final are timed examinations and are accessible only to enrolled students.

SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS:
The course week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday at Midnight. Assignments are due SUNDAY before midnight (in your time zone). All late assignments will earn a grade score penalty (up to 25%) at the discretion of the instructor. If you have a special situation and need an extension, you must contact the instructor via e-mail prior to the due date explaining the problem and specify exactly when the assignment will be forthcoming.

Assignments must be submitted in MS Word, or "rtf" format using APA style, with size 12 Times New Roman or Arial font. All written assignments must have the following information at the top left:

• Student’s name
• Course number and title
• Week #

ASSIGNMENT DETAIL:
Detail for each week of this course is provided to enrolled students on the Canyon College secure site for this course. Please go to Assignments for this detail. You will be asked for your student I.D. and password.

GRADING:
Written assignments, midterm examination, and final examination will be graded based on:

• Substance: Answer addresses question, statements are accurate, and opinions are supported.
• Organization: Answers are organized, coherent, and logical.
• Mechanics: Grammar, syntax, spelling, editing for errors.

Average of the weekly assignments	50%
Midterm Examination	25%
Final Examination	25%

A = 90% - 100% B = 80% - 89% C = 70% - 79% D = 60% - 69% F = Below 60%

A letter grade will be assigned at the conclusion of the 8 week semester based on the above criteria. The scale is based on 100 points.

"F" is for unsatisfactory work.
"D" indicates inferior work which in one or more respects falls below minimum acceptable standards but is of sufficient quality and quantity to count for credit.
"C" means the assignment was satisfactory, that is what one would expect from a college student. It is an average grade for students who give a reasonable amount of time, effort, and attention.
"B" is an above average grade for general achievement of a high order. The student has intelligently fulfilled the requirements of the course and has achieved a degree of excellence such as completeness, accuracy of knowledge, independence of work, creativity, and critical thought.
"A" is an exceptional grade reserved for excellent students indicating distinctly superior work who have thoroughly mastered the subject, displayed marked initiative and intellectual curiosity, and produced work of a superior quality.

COMMUNICATION:
You are expected to visit the chat and bulletin board areas of the Canyon College Web site periodically throughout this course. At this time you will receive any updates that are applicable to your course. You are to post a weekly update of your progress in the bulletin board area. This includes what was covered in the text and what you learned in the readings that can be applied to a health care setting.

When you contact me by e-mail your subject line must always be CANYON COLLEGE first followed by your name. For instance, my subject line would be: CANYON COLLEGE - Thorne, Dan

I check my Canyon College email daily. If you do not understand something, please contact me immediately. Do not wait!!! Do not wait until week 8 to say that you do not understand something concerning week 4.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
Academic integrity is highly valued at Canyon College. You are expected to complete all assignments by yourself using the text and other academic sources. If you use any outside sources, other than the assigned text, you must clearly cite sources using APA format. You are not to share any of your work with other students or potential students.

COMPRESSED TIME:
The courses offered at Canyon College are in a compressed time format. Courses are 8 weeks instead of the usual 15-18 weeks. This means that what is generally completed over a 15 - 18 week period is compressed into 8 weeks. This has advantages as well as disadvantages. The advantage is that a student can take one course each compressed semester and actually complete 6 courses in approximately a year. If a student took one course each traditional semester they could only complete 2-3 courses in a year. The disadvantage is that the work spread out over a 15-18 week semester is accomplished in 8 weeks. Sometimes students take one of these courses as a quick fill-in thinking that they will not have much work -- then feel overwhelmed with all the work that is actually involved. I am just trying to make everyone aware that students are expected to do what is generally required in any 3-credit course.