UMGC Week 3 Management Discussion

Week 3

Read Chapter 8 in Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: “Now and Around the Corner”

ATTRACTING AND RETAINING MILLENNIALS Is Servant Leadership the Answer?

• Ronald R. Sims. (2019). Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: “Now and Around the Corner.” Information Age Publishing.

Read Chapters 4, 5, and 6 in Cases in Human Resource Management

Matching Employees and Jobs: Job Analysis and Design

• Recruiting Job Candidates

Selecting New Employees

David Kimball. (2016). Cases in Human Resource Management. SAGE Publications, Inc.

SHRM (2016). HR Metrics

• Feffer (2017). 9 Tips for Using HR Metrics Strategically (shrm.org)

Supplemental Resources:

Chapter 4 “Recruitment” in Human resource management. Retrieved from http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Human%20Resource%20Management.pdf

• Chapter 5 “Selection” in Human resource management. Retrieved from http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Human%20Resource%20Management.pdf
• Vulpen (n.d.) 14 HR Metrics Examples
• Schneider (2018). 11 HR Metrics every Manager Should Know

Sullivan (2017). Top 10 HR and TA Metrics

Juneja (n.d). Understanding Job Analysis

Juneja (n.d.). Role of Job Analysis in Hiring Practices

• Juneja (n.d). Purpose of a Job Description

Juneja (n.d). Job Description and Job Specification

• Albright (2021). New Ideas For Your Recruitment Strategy in 2021

OVERVIEW

This week covers three areas:

recruiting practices

selection practices

• overview of HR metrics

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What is required:

Part A: Recruiting Methods (Minimum 1 paragraph response)

• Discuss the different types of social media sites that HR professionals can use as recruitment tools. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using these sites? Make a case for which social media site you believe to be most effective to recruit quality candidates. Be sure to include an expert’s ideas (with proper citations) to support your argument.

What is required: Respond to a classmate Julia and the Professors question asked about my post. 

Part B: Evaluation of Recruiting and Selection Processes 

Review some of the examples of metrics included in this week’s reading. How can HRMs use metrics to measure the success of the recruiting and selection processes? List 3 metrics that you view as most relevant. Explain your opinions. Be sure to include an expert’s ideas (with proper citations) to support your argument.

• What is required: Respond to a classmate Jenna and the Professors ideas on this question.