MIS 44091 Fall 2010 Humphrey
M&IS 44091 Fall 2010 Humphrey
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
SYLLABUS – M&IS 44091
CALL NUMBER 12276
Seminar in HRM
3 Credit Hours
Fall SEMESTER, 2010
Instructor: Eric Humphrey
Class Schedule: Wednesday: 6:15 p.m. – 8:55 p.m. Room BSA 206
Office Hours: by appointment
Text: Compensation, Tenth Edition, copyright 2010. Milkovich and Newman, McGraw-Hill Irwin. ISBN 9780073530499
e-mail: ehumphre@kent.edu
Telephone: 419-366-8812
THE FOLLOWING POLICIES APPLY TO ALL STUDENTS IN THIS COURSE
A. Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.
B. Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Web for Students) during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have until Sunday, September 5, 2010 to correct the error. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.
C. Academic honesty: Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit. In addition, it is considered to cheating when one cooperates with someone else in any such misrepresentation. The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense. It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course. Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.
D. The course withdrawal deadline is November 7, 2010. Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.
E. University policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course content. If you have a documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.registrars.kent.edu/disability/ for more information on registration procedures).
Class Guidelines:
Attendance
Absences from class will impact your educational experience. Attendance in class provides the opportunity for each student to learn not only from the instructor and materials, but also from other students. Class participation is a component of your final grade. If you are not in class, you will miss the opportunity to add to discussions and to participate in group activities, therefore, impacting your final grade.
Should you miss a class, it is your responsibility to obtain the class notes and other information and handouts from another student. The instructor will not provide copies of notes.
Due Dates
All written assignments must be submitted on or before the assigned due date at the beginning of the class period. LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
You are required to be present for all exams unless you have made PRIOR arrangements with the instructor. Make-up exams will be granted solely at the Instructor’s discretion.
Professional Writing
All out-of-class written assignments must be submitted in typewritten form. No handwritten assignments will be accepted. Standards of proper English apply to all written assignments and exams. In addition to content; spelling, grammar and flow of ideas will be used to evaluate any written work product.
Class Participation
All students are expected and encouraged to participate in activities and discussions during class. Learning is an active process and each student should feel free to add input and ask questions during class sessions. There will be a variety of in-class activities to supplement lectures and textbook reading. Material covered during the in-class activities is considered exam-relevant information.
Class Courtesy
Students are expected to disable any electronic devices during class time to avoid interruptions caused by cellular telephones, pagers, PDA’s, and other equipment. Please extend courtesy to your fellow class members and to the instructor by refraining from the use of such devices during class time. Repeated violations will be reflected in the student’s participation grade.
Class Materials
All students are expected to read the assigned textbook as well as any articles assigned by the instructor throughout the semester.
Class Activities and Projects
Students will be assigned and are expected to participate in class activities. Each student will complete an individual research project. The project will be fully explained on a separate assignment handout. The project involves researching a specific topic in the field of compensation.
In addition to a research project, each student will be required to complete three class assignments that will be detailed at dates to be determined.
Instructor Access
If you encounter difficulties and cannot see me during my scheduled office hours, please send me an e-mail, call me, or ask before or after class. If you need assistance, please contact me immediately.
Grading Standards
Students in this course will not be graded on the plus / minus scale.
Grades
A = 360 – 400 points (90%)
B = 320 – 359 points (80%)
C = 280 – 319 points (70%)
D = 240 – 279 points (60%)
F = Below 239 points
Grading Criteria
Midterm exam – 1 @ 100 points 100 – 25%
Class assignment – 2 @ 40 points 80 – 20%
Research paper – 1 @ 100 points 100 – 25%
Final exam – 1 @ 100 points 100 – 25%
Class assignment – 1@ 20 points 20 – 05%
TOTAL 400 – 100%
M&IS 44091 – Fall Semester, 2010
DATE |
SESSION/TOPIC |
September 1 |
Course Introduction Chapter 1: The Pay Model Chapter 2: Strategic Perspectives |
September 8 |
Chapter 17: Legal Issues in Compensation |
September 15 |
Chapter 3: Internal Alignment Chapter 4: Job Analysis |
September 22 |
Chapter 5: Job Evaluation Chapter 6: Person-Based Structures |
September 29 |
Chapter 7: Defining Competitiveness |
October 6 |
Mid Term Exam |
October 13 |
Chapter 8: Designing Pay Levels |
October 20 |
Chapter 9: Pay for Performance Chapter 10: Pay for Performance Plans |
October 27 |
Chapter 11: Performance Appraisals |
November 3 |
Chapter 14: Compensation of Special Groups Chapter 15: Union Role |
November 10 |
TBD and Research paper due |
November 17 |
Chapter 12: The Benefits Determination process
|
November 24 |
Thanksgiving: No Class |
December 1 |
Chapter 13: Benefit Options
|
December 8 |
Chapter 18: Budgets and Administration Review |
December 15 |
***** FINAL EXAM ***** 5:45 p.m. |