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Classes meet two evenings per week in on the UW Bellevue campus.
Autumn Courses
Training and Staff Development
This course explores the training "Best Practices" of leading industries, and provides strategies and tactics for managing training and staff development. You will build skills in understanding, performing and leading the development, creation, implementation, and management of an effective training and development program. Topics include:
- Needs and skills assessments
- Techniques
- Evaluation criteria
- Corporate positioning for increased resources
- Instructional design
- Setting training objectives
- Developing a sample training plan
HR as Business Partner
This course presents a comprehensive overview of the role of the human resources professional and the HR function as a strategic business partner within an organization. Topics include:
- The development of the HR manager's role from tactical personnel manager to strategic business partner
- The HR manager's various roles in organizations of various sizes
- HR's role in developing systems and organizational structure
- Overview of business fundamentals, risk management, metrics and ROI (return on investment) principles
- Performance management and review processes
- Key ethical issues for the HR manager
Winter Courses
Benefits
This course provides an intensive overview of employee benefits, including characteristics of life, disability, health care and
retirement plans. Topics include:
- Cost of benefits
- Statutory coverages
- Design of medical benefit programs
- Funding employee benefit plans
- Employee benefit rights
- Tax considerations
- Current issues in employee benefits
Employee Relations
This course emphasizes employment laws and practical skills for managing the employee relations function. Topics include:
- Anti-discrimination laws governing the employment relationship
- Investigation of discrimination and whistleblower complaints
- Progressive discipline
- Labor relations
- Workplace privacy and testing
- Employee handbooks
- State and federal employment laws governing the need for family and medical leave
Spring Courses
Compensation and Reward Systems
This course provides an in-depth investigation of the relationship between compensation, reward systems and performance review. Topics include:
- Compensation plan structure and design
- Job pricing and salary surveys
- Incentive compensation systems and non-economic rewards
- Development of criteria and standards for performance review
- Linking pay plans to strategic/business objectives
- Effective appraisal systems and how to link them
to management objectives and compensation
Workforce Planning
This course provides an intensive introduction to strategic staffing and workforce planning. Topics include:
- The HR Manager's role in strategic staffing/workforce planning
- The impact of the changing demographics of today's applicants/employees -- generation x, millennial, approaching retirement, cultural and ethnic diversity etc.
- Multiple recruiting venues
- Write and critique job descriptions/position profiles
- A variety of selection tools
- The phases of the employment life cycle
