Gain the skills to:

• Recruit, hire, and keep the most talented employees
• Write job descriptions and specifications and develop competitive salary and benefits packages
• Play the pivotal role in your company's growth and overall productivity

Fundamentals of Human Resources is a comprehensive guide on virtually every aspect of human resources management. It will enable you to develop an effective human resources plan based on the needs of your organization.

Learn how to:

• Recruit, select, interview, and hire more qualified employees in full compliance with federal and state laws
• Perform job analyses and prepare job descriptions that lay the groundwork for hiring and evaluating employees, using sample job descriptions and performance appraisal forms
• Develop a cost-effective, competitive compensation and benefits program that will substantially reduce employee turnover
• Train and motivate every worker—at every level—to get the results where they count...on the bottom line

Course Objective:

Gain skills to develop a human resources plan based on organizational needs. Understand key aspects of staffing, training, and compensation practices.

About This Course:

As one course among many offered in the American Management Association's curriculum, Fundamentals of Human Resources has been designed specifically for the practicing manager and the future manager. It provides private, self-paced, individualized study; learning and self-evaluation through in-text exercises.

Patricia M. Albrecht has been an AMA Senior Instructor since 1978, monitoring a wide range of courses designed to enhance managerial skills, and has also written a number of courses for AMA. In 1980, she became a principal in the consulting firm of Albrecht, Cahn, and Goldstein, which provided training seminars and produced human resources material for small and midsized businesses in central Massachusetts. Ms. Albrecht is a graduate of Assumption College and the University of London.

Roger C. E. Albrecht, principal of Albrecht Consulting Services, Worcester, Massachusetts, has more than 20 years of experience in human resources management, specializing in the field of retirement planning and health/benefits plan audits and renovation.

Clients include The Travelers Company, The New Hampshire College and University Council, Cultural Exchange Association of Boston and Tokyo, The Wang Institute, Stephens Institute of Technology, Holy Cross College, and MIT. Albrecht is the benefits manager for the Administrative Office of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mr. Albrecht completed a BA/LLB degree course at the University of Melbourne and qualifies as a Barrister at Law in the United Kingdom.

The publisher wishes to thank the following people for their help in reviewing the manuscript of this course: Jeffery H. Davis, MEd, Organization Renewal Associates, Littleton, Massachusetts; Lorrie Ferraro, Quorum International, Ltd., Lowell, Massachusetts; and Professor Harold L. Gilmore, College of Business and Industry, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

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