Workforce Planning and Employment: Employment Legislation

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 tested on a regular basis. Additionally, this course provides instruction on how to gauge the effectiveness of past, current, and future hiring initiatives. The course covers the need for HR professionals to link workforce requirements to an organization's short-term and long-term objectives – for example, how employees contribute to these objectives. This course also discusses the importance, and use, of workforce planning metrics such as turnover and recruitment statistics. This course is created to help HR professionals preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) PHR and SPHR certification examinations. The content in this course is based on the responsibility and knowledge statements of the PHR and SPHR Body of Knowledge of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Target Audience
Human resource professionals who are preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) Professional in Human Resources (PHR) or Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification exam

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Workforce Planning and Employment: Employment Legislation

recognize which employment situations are protected by which law

recognize key aspects of affirmative action plans

recognize activities done in the stages in the affirmative action planning process that contribute to developing an AAP

recognize how to implement an affirmative action plan

describe four different types of audits used to evaluate affirmative action plans

match workforce assessment techniques to their examples

identify internal workforce assessment techniques

identify workforce planning techniques

recognize the types of factors to consider to measure the success of your organization's recruitment and sourcing efforts