Offers, Contracts, and Organizational Exit (HRCI/PHR)

Overview/Description
 Human Resource (HR) professionals today have to deal with particularly sensitive subjects regarding employment. This course examines employment offers for prospective candidates, contract creation, and record-keeping requirements. In addition, the complex issues of organizational exit--including downsizing, severance, and termination--are explored. The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues. As a human resource professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employment practices with regard to employment offers, contracts, and exits are fair and equitable, and that they comply with required regulations and recommended policies and practices. This course will help you prepare for the HRCI certification examinations in this area. All the topics in this course are based on the Workforce Planning and Employment functional area of the HR Body of Knowledge recommended by the Society for Human Resource Management, or SHRM. This SkillSoft product has been reviewed by the Employment Practice Group of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green. As of the date reviewed, the content of this course is in compliance with federal law and court decisions. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the law, information in this course may become outdated.

Target Audience
 Human resource professionals who are preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's certification examinations

Expected Duration
3.0

Lesson Objectives:

Offers, Contracts, and Records Management

  • identify the benefits of understanding offers, contracts, and proper records-management practices.
  • select examples of the items that should be included in a written employment offer.
  • identify the three types of employment contracts.
  • match employee types to examples of special clauses commonly included in their respective employment contracts.
  • identify functions of HR records management.
  • match federal laws to the details of their record-keeping requirements.

    • Organizational Exit

  • identify the benefits of having an effective organizational exit strategy in place.
  • identify examples of the characteristics of terminations.
  • select correct examples of the procedures used when terminating employees for cause.
  • recognize examples of the various roles HR has during a period of downsizing.
  • identify the reasons for an employer to offer a severance package.
  • recognize examples of the elements of effective exit interviews.


    • Course Number: HR0254