Moravian Graduate and CIU 20

This course examines the high priority legal issues in today’s current K-12 HR environment. Working from a basis of laws and regulations governing the employment relationship, students and faculty examine how federal and state legislation, court and administrative decisions, and regulatory processes are changing interviewing, hiring, promotion, performance assessment, termination, diversity, privacy, safety and health, and union-management relations practices in the workplace. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the impact of changes in law and regulations and determining both operational and strategic impacts of those changes on organizational practices.

This course explores labor relations in the K-12 public sector. The course will focus on the legal requirements in Pennsylvania, the process of collective bargaining, the scope of collective bargaining, types of collective bargaining, administration of the collective bargaining agreement and the impact of collective bargaining on the school environment. The course topics will include the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, fact finding, proposal preparation, provision application, data analytics, unfair labor practices, grievances, and arbitrations. In addition, the course will examine the political, social, economic and organizational impact of collective bargaining on the public-school setting.

This course includes an overview of strategy for recruitment and retention in the K-12 public school sector. Various methods for acquiring the critical skills needed to produce products and services are examined in this course. In addition to the traditional staffing topics of recruiting, selecting and retaining employees, outsourcing and importing human resources to meet organizations’ strategic skill and knowledge needs will be examined. Other topics may include equal employment opportunity, human resource planning, determination of staffing needs, internal and external recruitment strategies, selection interviews, tests and assessment procedures, placement, promotion, transfer policies and retention strategies.

This course includes an overview of business strategy and emphasizes the role of public school human resource management for effective strategy implementation. Models of organizational diagnosis and change, reengineering, divesting, merging, acquiring, downsizing, and outsourcing are examined from a strategic and operational human resource perspective. Students will complete a service learning assignment with a not-for-profit organization or small business to apply the knowledge and skills learned in this course. (Bartkus)