Overview/Description This course examines personnel and administrative functions such as organizational documentation requirements to ensure compliance with key regulations, how to gauge employee attitudes and opinions, and the job analysis process. Financial and vendor management is also discussed, including common budgeting and accounting concepts, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and third-party supplier management. This course also addresses tools and techniques used to support HR activities, such as HR technologies, techniques for forecasting HR needs, and risk-management...

Overview/Description HR professionals are closely involved with various aspects of organizational risk management, especially risks that concern people. These include risks related to business continuity, noncompliance with laws that relate to managing and protecting human capital, and employee safety, health, security, and workplace privacy risks. This course examines various steps in the risk management process and risk management strategies in terms of business continuity planning and liability insurance. The course also discusses arguably the most important employee health and safety...

Overview/Description Organizational leadership, including HR leadership, is directly involved in developing, refining, and implementing an organization's strategic plan. One of the key roles of senior HR professionals is to align activities in the HR function with the organization's strategic goals. Senior HR professionals are often directly involved with the corporate restructuring activities resulting from organizational changes and initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, offshoring, outsourcing, and divestiture. Managing third-party contracting and technology and measuring strategic...

Overview/Description This course examines employment legislation and regulations regarding strategic workforce planning. It outlines how HR professionals are expected to ensure all workforce planning and employment-related activities comply with key federal laws and regulations. It discusses the development, implementation, and assessment of affirmative action plans and other equal opportunity considerations. It also provides direction on how HR professionals should approach internal staffing assessments to help ensure key skills and competencies are catalogued, reviewed for relevance, and...