Getting the Workforce Your Company Needs

Overview/Description
 This course examines both the legal guidelines and the procedures for recruiting, interviewing and selecting qualified employees. Special emphasis is given to legally-mandated requirements for providing equal opportunities for women and minorities in this process and for creating a workforce that is prepared to receive them and maximize their potential.

Target Audience
 Business professionals with less than two year's experience in human resources. Also non-HR business professionals desiring a fast-track introduction to the business human resources function.

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Diversity Management

  • recognize that diversity management is a necessary organizational response to demographic factors, laws and regulations, and the need to retain a competitive edge.
  • identify the factors affecting workforce diversity.
  • identify the results/characteristics/drawbacks of the responses to diversity.
  • identify true statements about "Affirmative Action" and "Equal Employment Opportunity."
  • match a definition or concept to the appropriate law or legal concept pertaining to discrimination.
  • identify whether an action is sexual harassment.
  • identify who the Americans with Disabilities Act considers "disabled" and the salient characteristics of "essential job functions" and "reasonable accommodations."

    • Recruiting Qualified Candidates

  • recognize the benefits of using a collaborative process between HR and management to recruit applicants.
  • identify true statements about the job review.
  • identify true statements about internal recruiting.
  • describe factors that affect an organization's ability and need to recruit from outside.
  • match the recruitment source procedures with the appropriate rationale or usage statement.

    • Interviewing and Selection

  • recognize the benefits of using a collaborative process between HR and management to interview and select applicants.
  • identify key elements of interview planning.
  • match the characteristic, usage, or demands to each type of interview (highly directed and structured, moderately directed and structured, non-directed and individualized).
  • identify true statements about interview guidelines and concepts.
  • identify the general legal guidelines/precautions that should be followed for each type of employment test or background check.
  • identify true statements about employee rights and relevant laws, regulations and guidelines.
  • identify who makes the selection decision and identify the factors that affect the selection decision.

    • Course Number: HR0102