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HRER 413: Compensation This course examines wage and salary policies and programs in private and public organizations. Legislative and social issues affecting pay decisions, and the alignment of pay policies with the business strategy and other human resource programs are covered Outcome: Students will learn how to design and implement compensation policies and programs that will give their employers a competitive advantage; resolve compensation problems from both a human resource professional and managerial perspective; and create pay policies that are perceived as just and equitable. Students will improve their team leadership, analytical and writing skills HRER 418: Human Resources Law This course will introduce students, by a combination of statutory case law analysis and readings, to the substantive case law in the area of employee-employer relations law. The statutes and case law encompass the following: National Labor Relations Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ...

Introduction Medical training and practice occur within healthcare organizations which are undergoing constant change. 1,2 Cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) is a social theory for studying social practice, and is attracting increasing interest in medical education for studying dynamic systems in change. 3–5 CHAT was originally devised for studying children at play, but it has been subsequently developed by philosophers interested in learning through practice, especially in complex systems, as this article will explain. CHAT considers the fundamental unit of life to be activity, which is collective and requires communication and interaction between practitioners. 6,7 It is through activity and through working collaboratively that people learn. Within CHAT, the subject (individuals, groups or organizations) of the activity does not act directly on their environment, but always indirectly in some way, through action which is mediated by the use of instruments, which may be t...

Our Supreme Court's recent 4-3 decision in Coleman v. Martinez poses the question of whether and to what extent the courts should rely on statute as a source of public policy in shaping the common law outside the bounds of the statute. Justice Albin's dissent declares that the Legislature is the "ultimate expositor of public policy," from which it concludes that a statute limiting the duty of licensed mental health professionals to warn of danger from a patient should be applied to a social worker not within the scope of the statute. Justice Solomon's opinion for the majority declines to apply the statute beyond its express terms, instead applying a common law analysis of duty to the facts of the case. By a one-vote majority, the court has decided that it will exercise independent judgment in determining the scope of duty to a tort victim unless and only so far as directly constrained by statute. The case arose from a knife attack by a psychiatric patient...

​Last year, a retired former partner at Hal Waldman & Associates, a personal injury firm in Pittsburgh, decided he would like to return to work. The firm welcomed him back, and he was soon helping with a particularly complex case. He also taught his former colleagues a few lessons. "Some of our younger attorneys were wary of this retired attorney's brash old-school approach, but his way of doing things recalibrated the company in many ways, even if to prove to us what we didn't want to do going forward," said Alison Pearson, head of HR at the firm. Heather Reid had a similar experience. As an HR manager for a startup content-writing business in Boston, her boss decided to hire a retiree who was eager to return to the workforce. "The employee was a retired local newspaper reporter and had been out of a job for at least two years," Reid said. "The reason he came out of retirement was that he was extremely [pleased] with not having to worry about d...

One year ago, rising cases of coronavirus put an abrupt halt to the fall semester on many college campuses, just as classes got underway. This year, the delta variant is threatening to shut down schools once again. And the possibility of more campus closures has sparked renewed interest in college refund policies and tuition insurance. Roughly 78% of colleges and universities plan to resume all in-person classes for the fall, and just 19% are planning a mix of in-person and online classes, according to a survey by the National Association for College Admission Counseling. More from Personal Finance: Schools weigh vaccine and mask mandates College plans rebound although cost is a top concern Colleges and unvaccinated students are set for a standoff Yet, already a few colleges and universities have announced they will start remotely due to rising cases of Covid, including the University of Texas at San Antonio and Stanislaus State in California. "Due to th...

COVID is transforming learning and development in ways that will outlive the crisis—and require leaders to 'unlearn the old schoolbooks,' experts say. The days of off-the-shelf templates, standard workshops and mandated employee training are vanishing, as pandemic-driven shifts create new expectations for development on the part of employees and change how, where and what employees need to learn. In response, many HR professionals are abandoning practices born in the industrial era and developing new ways of learning that aren't just customized, but cross silos and motivate employees to want to learn more. "We have this authentic and real opportunity to reshape the nature of [learning] and how we do it," says Lars Schmidt, author of Redefining HR and a speaker at a recent HRE -hosted webinar about learning, engagement and performance. "If you work in HR, buckle up because...

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been certified as Water Plus by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MOHUA) on Friday. It has become the first local body of Telangana to achieve this coveted status in the Swachh Bharat certifications, a press statement from GHMC said. The certifications ranged from ODF (Open Defecation Free), ODF+, ODF++ and Water+, of which GHMC had already achieved ODF++ status. For this certification, the GHMC was assessed through third party inspections against nine indicators, respectively with regard to safe discharge of sewage, safe cleaning practices, mechanical equipment support, treatment capacities, reuse of treated water, maintenance of drains, cost recovery, grievance redress mechanism, and establishment of sanitation authority and response units. The statement from GHMC has attributed the certification to the 25 sewage treatment plants set up by the HMWS&SB and three by HMDA for treatment of waste water released from h...