Public Personnel Management

Public Management (PMGT) 5120

Course Description :

• A graduate introductory seminar in public human resource management. A survey of the current state of personnel management topics and techniques, with the history of the civil service, the rise of merit- based personnel systems, recruitment, selection and placement, testing, human resource planning, job analysis and position classification, performance evaluation, productivity improvement, health and safety, pensions and benefits, and other relevant topics.

• Course Purpose and Objectives
• Needed materials
• Course Outline
• Instructor/More Information

Course Purpose and objectives

Purpose :

• To give the student both a wide-ranging survey as in depth knowledge of public personnel management.

Course Objectives :

• 1. To gain a knowledge of the history and development of public human resouce management.
  2. To gian experience in all basic personnel techniques.
  3. To learn the theory and practice of many sub-fields and disciplines within personnnel.
  4. To develop an understanding of the interrelationships among the many subfields and areas of public personnel management.

Needed materials :

Texts

Klinger, Donald E. and Nalbandian, John, Public Personnel Management : Context and Strategies, 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1993.

• Computer Disk : Please buy 3.5" High Density, IBM format (1.44MB) diskette.

  Internet Access : If you do not already have an internet account, please get a free internet account and learn to use it early in the semester. some instructional materials and class discussion may be put on the web.

Course Outline :

Week	Topic	Klinger & Nalbandian
1	Role of the Personnel Manager	Chap. 1
2	Job of the Personnel Manager	Chap. 2
3	Budgeting, Planning and Productivity	Chap. 3
4	Analysis, Classification & Evaluation	Chap. 4
5	Pay & Benefits	Chap. 5
6	Affirmative Action	Chap. 6
7	Recruitment, Selection & Promotion	Chap. 7
8	Leadership & Productivity Improvement	Chap. 8
9	Training & Education	Chap. 9
10	Performance Appraisal	Chap. 10
11	Health & Safety Issues	Chap. 11
12	Organizational Justice	Chap. 12
13	Collective Bargaining	Chap. 13
14	A strategice Human Resource Capability	Chap. 14
15	Summary & Conclusions

This is a tentative schedule which is adapted each semester to fit the academic calendar.

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For more Information, Contact

Dr Lon Felker

214 Sam Wilson Hall

East Tennessee State University

Department of Economics, Finance and Urban Studies

Box 70686

Johnson City, TN 37614-0686

(423) 439 - 6631.

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