MIS 34180-003 Spring 2010 R. Martin
Human Resources Management Spring 2010
Robb Martin, 330-573-9706; rmarti21@.kent.edu
2:15 – 3:30 pm , Monday & Wednesday,Satterfield 121
Text: Human Resource Management by Lawrence S. Kleiman
Cengage Learning, ISBN: 13: 978-1-426-64918-9
A copy of this syllabus can be downloaded from the M&IS web site http://mismain.bsa.kent.edu - select the “Syllabi” quick link on the lower left-side of the page to enter the Syllabi Archive.
1. Course Objectives:
As a result of this course, you will better understand:
a) important HR systems and how they are interrelated with one another and with other important firm-wide systems
b) the value added (i.e., competitive advantage) that can be gained by designing, building, and managing HR systems based on proven HR techniques and approaches
c) the very critical role that job analysis plays in designing and building value-added HR systems
d) the legal obligations employees have to their employers as well as the legal obligations employers have to their employees
e) how to evaluate HR systems as well as better estimate their value-added
f) the current state of the art related to various HR activities
2. Office Hours: (available prior to class)
1) I could schedule office hours by appointment which I believe will accommodate the needs of most students….OR
2) I could set aside specific times during the week for office hours: 2:00-3:30 T/TH which will likely not accommodate most student needs.
PLEASE READ: I will expect that you made a reasonable attempt to resolve the matter you want to discuss with me before we meet. Be prepared to explain what you did to try to resolve the matter.
3. Textbooks: Test will cover the text and class room discussions. Students are expected to read the material. In addition to the test there will be unannounced quizzes over the reading material. These count toward class participation grade.
a) Kleiman, L.S. Human Resource Management: A Managerial Tool for Competitive Advantage, Atomic Dog Publishing (2007).
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The syllabus indicates (under ASSIGNMENT) the chapter(s) in the Kleiman textbook that correspond to the content of the lecture/discussion that will take place that day or week in class.
4. Grading:
Class Participation, Assignments, and Quizes (account for 25% of your final grade).
Exams. (account for 75% of your final grade). There are 3 – 4 equally weighted exams. Most likely 3 exams but we as a class will consider the option of a 4th.
THE ONLY VALID EXCUSES FOR MISSING AN ASSIGNMENT ARE THE EXCUSES NOTED IN THE DIGEST OF RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING STUDENT LIFE.
Your final grade will be determined in the following manner:
FG = .25(åCA/5) + .75(åEG/4)
where: FG = Final Grade
CA = score for each class assignment
EG = score for each exam
The FG value needed to guarantee various final letter-grades are shown below:
To earn a grade of: Your FG value must be:
A 90 or above
B 80 - 89
C 70 - 79
D 60 - 69
F 59 or lower
Please note that you are responsible for all changes in the course outline announced in class as well as all other matters that are discussed in class.
One final note about tests: Tests for this class are never distributed for student use or for any other purpose. Any copies offered to you are stolen property and if found in your possession will be considered sufficient cause for assigning a grade of "F" for the course. Software piracy is also grounds for assignment of a grade of "F". For more complete regulations governing cheating, plagiarism, and theft see the Digest of Rules and Regulations that govern student life.
THE FOLLOWING UNIVERSITY 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 the responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. If registration errors are not corrected by the date noted in the university calendar, 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. It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course.
D. The course withdrawal deadline is noted in the university calendar. Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.
E. Students with disabilities: Students who require reasonable accommodations must verify their eligibility through the Office of Student Accessibility Services (SAS) located in the DeWeese Center (672-3391).
Power Point slides
DATES/TOPICS/ASSIGNMENTS
IMPORTANT NOTE: Bring your Analyst jump disk with you to the B SA computer lab on the dates in the syllabus where COMPUTER LAB is noted. On the jump disk should be your “good faith attempt” at the exercise on which we will be working. If you have not made a good faith attempt, you will be asked to leave the lab. At a minimum, a good faith attempt includes a sentence about each of the entities in the database on which we will be working.
DATE ASSIGNMENT
September 1 – 17 Parts One (Chapters 1 - 2)
September 22 – Oct 1 Part Two (Chapters 3 -4)
Oct 6 - 27 Part Three (Chapters 5- 8)
Oct. 29 – Nov. 5 Part Four (Chapters 9 – 10),
Nov. 10 – 24 Part Five (Chapters 11 – 12)
Dec 1 – 10 Part Five (Chapters 13 – 14), Part Six (Chapter 15)
Final Exam Dec 14 - 20
Test dates will be announced and assignments for projects and responses will be made in class.
M&IS 34180 (HRM) Sample Questions
According to Herzberg's Two Factor Theory, what is the role of hygiene factors?
a. their presence leads to feelings of neutrality
b. their absence leads to feelings of satisfaction
c. their presence leads to feelings of satisfaction
d. their absence leads to feelings of neutrality
Which of THE Database Analyst's feedback sources can be used to help determine whether the entities in a database are related to one another?
a. FlowMap feedback
b. Written feedback
c. Schema feedback
d. all of the above
What is the most commonly used approach to internal recruitment for non-managerial jobs?
a. supervisor recommendations
b. computerized career progression systems
c. employee referrals
d. job posting
Which is a system designed to achieve organizational effectiveness by steering each employee’s behavior toward the organization’s mission by using a combination of goal setting, planning, and evaluation activities?
a. behavior-based modeling
b. management accounting
c. management by objectives
d. behavior observation method
What level of training needs analysis focuses on the identification of where within a firm training is needed?
a. departmental analysis
b. operational analysis
c. organizational analysis
d. business‑unit analysis
Which theory states that employees form beliefs about pay fairness by comparing their outcome/input ratio to that of a referent other?
a. contingency theory
b. equity theory
c. expectancy theory
d. consistency theory
Which approach to the study of leadership is associated with Theory X and Theory Y?
a. trait approach
b. situational approach
c. behavioristic approach
d. style approach
What error in rating is the result of raters not using the extremes of the rating scale.
a. extremity error
b. similarity error
c. central tendency error
d. halo error
Which is a correct statement about the cost effectiveness of training programs in the typical U.S. company?
a. the success rate of training and development practices in many U.S. firms is quite dismal
b. training programs have fared so well that they have been cited as a chief contributor to the high productivity growth in U.S. firms
c. more than half the material learned during training in the typical U.S. company is applied back on the job
d. none of the above
Which of the following is reported to occur in firms that use downsizing to reduce costs?
a. the majority of firms that downsize achieve higher organizational profits
b. the majority of firms that downsize refill eliminated positions within a year
c. the majority of firms that downsize report higher employee productivity
d. all of the above
What is defined as the organization's attempt to add to, maintain, or readjust its total human resource complement in accordance with its strategic business objectives?
a. recruitment
b. selection
c. staffing
d. training and development
Which is a law that provides a continuation of health insurance coverage for employees who leave a company through no fault of their own?
a. Health Care Benefits Extension Act
b. Fair Labor Standards Act
c. Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
d. Unemployment Compensation Act
