TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
HRM 4481
Staffing
Prerequisites
Pre-Business Core, MGT 3300.
Description
Addresses theory, principles, practices, and legal requirements for effective recruitment,
selection, and promotion in organizational settings.
Objectives
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Recruit a pool of qualified job applicants internally and externally, within the confines of
the law, using résumés, applications, and reference checks.
2. Apply the concepts of validity and reliability to recruitment, selection, and promotion.
3. List and describe the basic types of reliability estimates relevant to multi-item measures,
including test-retest, split-half, and internal-consistency.
4. Describe inter-rater reliability and the types of measures to which it best applies, including
its relevance to interviewer effectiveness.
5. Analyze staffing issues from the perspective of employment discrimination laws and
considerations of diversity, including affirmative action.
6. Conduct a job analysis, and explain the role of job analysis in human-resource selection.
7. Describe the legal environment of human-resource recruitment and selection and legally
acceptable job performance criterion measures.
8. Implement organization-level strategies from the perspective of human-resource staffing.
Purpose
To provide basic knowledge of the qualitative and quantitative recruiting techniques and
approaches for selecting good workers within the confines of the law, in preparation for entrylevel management positions.
Master Syllabi are developed by the senior faculty in each business discipline. This Master Syllabus must be used as the basis for developing the
instructor syllabus for this course, which must also comply with the content specifications outlined in the Troy University Faculty Handbook.
The objectives included on this Master Syllabus must be included among the objectives on the instructor’s syllabus, which may expand upon the
same as the instructor sees fit. The statement of purpose seeks to position the course properly within the curriculum and should be consulted by
faculty as a source of advisement guidance. Specific choice of text and other details are further subject to Program Coordinator guidance.
1 August 2005
Master Syllabus: HRM 4481
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Approved Texts
Phillips, J. M. & Gully, S. M. (2012). Strategic Staffing (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson/Prentice
Hall.
Supplements
As deemed appropriate.
Troy University Faculty Handbook (2010): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):
1. Course title
8. Classroom
2. Course number +
location
section
9. Office location +
3. Term
e-mail address
4. Instructor
10. Office telephone
5. Prerequisites
11. Course
6. Office hours
description,
7. Class days, times
objectives
12. Text(s)
13. Other materials
14. Grading methods, 16. General supports
criterion weights,
(computer works,
make-up policy,
writing center)
mid-term grade
17. Daily assignments,
reports
holidays, add/drop
15. Procedure, course
& open dates,
requirements
dead day, final
exam
18. ADA statement
23. Cheating policy
19. Electronic device 24. Specialization
statement
requirements
20. Additional
(certification,
services,
licensure, teacher
statements
competencies)
21. Absence policy
22. Incomplete-work
policy