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Track 1

PERSONNEL AND HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION

FOCUS: To provide essential information concerning personnel and labor relations to public administrators. Examples of topics that will be covered include recruitment/selection, equal employment opportunity/affirmative action, performance evaluation, discipline/termination, health/safety, collective bargaining, classification, compensation and employee benefits.

This track is intended for

  • Public service employees who want to acquire this specialized knowledge and training and apply the best practices and theory to their management behaviors and strategies.
  • Management professionals who want to further develop their human resources skills.
  • Administrative staff who want to become more familiar with personnel and human resources administration.
  • Students in the government or non-profit sectors who are interested in enhancing their skills and abilities needed to deal with "real-world" problems and situations.

Requirements

Class attendance and participation, completion of outside readings and "homework exams", and completion of an applied research project and paper.

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