Course Overview
This course is designed to provide an in-depth look at staffing within organizations. Specifically, major topic areas that will be discussed are: the impact of economic conditions on staffing, employment law and how it affects staffing activities, employee recruitment, employment testing in the context of employee selection, measurement issues in employee selection, decision-making in employee selection, and maintenance of an organizational staffing system, and employee retention.
[M] 3 credits.

Course Objectives
It is expected that at the conclusion of the course, students will be able to do the following:

1. Explain the impact of organizational staffing on the performance of the organization.
2. Identify and discuss the various functions and activities that occur in the organizational staffing process.
3. Discuss the effect that external and internal factors (e.g., economic conditions, organizational strategy, etc.) have on organizational staffing.
4. Identify and discuss ways in which legislation and regulations impact organizational staffing decisions.
5. Evaluate whether a given job description and job specification encompass all aspects of the job to which they correspond.
6. Conduct a job analysis to evaluate the job requirements of a given position.
7. Evaluate and critique methods of employee recruiting.
8. Formulate a plan for recruiting for a given position that corresponds directly to the requrements for that job.
9. Evaluate and critique methods of employee selection.
10. Formulate a plan for selection for a given position that corresponds directly to the requirements for that job.
11. Explain why it is important for an employee selection device to be both reliable and valid.
12. Conduct a basic validity study for a given employee selection device and provide reommendations on the basis of the results.