Selection and Staffing: The Staffing Process

Retain your valued employees, and manage departures and workforce reductions. Systematically assess the effectiveness of selection and staffing in your organization.

Description

This course covers the issues and best practices related to employee retention, reductions in force, and documenting and reporting on the selection and staffing process. It illustrates a systematic approach that can be applied to most organizations.

Who Should Take This Course?

HR professionals responsible for recruiting, screening, hiring, promoting, and outplacing employees.

Line managers, supervisors, and team leaders who are involved in the recruiting process or in making promotion and succession decisions.

Course Format

eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and builds each course around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced, and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content. This course contains the following modules:

• How Do We Keep Employees?
• Effective orientation as a retention tool
• Implementing an effective orientation program
• Elements of an effective succession plan
• Identifying high-potential employees
• What Happens When People Leave?
• How and why people leave an organization
• Effective and legal strategies for managing a downsizing
• The role of HR in managing a workforce reduction
• Structuring and conducting an effective exit interview
• Reporting and Effectiveness
• Reports, tools, and measurements the HR department can use to demonstrate its value to the organization
• Effectiveness versus efficiency
• Aligning HR effectiveness measurements with the organization's strategic business priorities

Benefits to the Learner

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify effective strategies for retaining valued employees
• Implement effective strategies for managing employee departures and reductions in force
• Use reports to measure the effectiveness of the HR department's selection and staffing process

Authoring Faculty

Ronald M. Katz, Adjunct Faculty

Sponsoring School

Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Total Learning Time

Approximately 5-6 hours over a period of two weeks.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificates:

• HR: Selection and Staffing
• Systems and Processes in HR
• Human Resources Studies

Prerequisites

This course is part of a series of eCornell courses devoted to selection and staffing. If you are unfamiliar with this topic or uncertain of your ability to accomplish this courses' objectives, you may want to complete Selection and Staffing: The Selection Process (ILRHR509) prior to enrolling in ILRHR510.

HRCI Recertification

This course been approved for six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.