Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

I. Goals
a. Present human resources administration in an actual context, considering the profound changes that are experienced.
b. Presentation and analysis of the processes of human resources administration, with a special consideration of human needs, environmental influences, independence of processes, strategic vision of the organization, predominant contemporary practices, administration of organizational law and communicational aspects of the processes.
c. To open up opportunities to increase sensitivity surrounding the significance of human resources and its contribution to organizational results.
d. Create a space for the practice of skills in the training of the students.

II. Contents
a. Introduction
i. Nature of human resources
ii. Analysis of environment and actual tendencies
iii. Criteria for observing decisions: seven signs to watch for
b. Process of specialization of jobs
i. Analysis of positions
ii. Description of positions
iii. Flexibility and Polyvalency
c. Process of funding
i. Planning
ii. Recruiting
iii. Selection
iv. Induction
d. Process of formation of human resources
i. Training and development
ii. Career development
e. Process of performance evaluation
i. Methodologies
ii. Quality assurance
f. Process of compensation
i. Assessment of positions
ii. Systems of compensation
iii. Administration of systems
g. Process of labor relations
i. Union organization
ii. Negotiation
iii. Doctrinal and ethical aspects
h. Process of end of labor relation
i. Strategic vision
j. System evaluation and future of human resources administration
i. International demands

III. Evaluation
a. Five lecture checks 15%
b. Group report on each process 15%
c. Exhibition of process (individual grade) 15%
d. Midterm test over processes 15%
e. Report and presentation �" “My experience w/Human Res.” 15%
f. Final written exam 25%