Eng Mgt 6113

Advanced Personnel Management

(Strategic Human Resource Management & Measurement)

Course Overview
David G. Spurlock, Ph.D., Instructor
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Map of Engineering Management Topics

Top level view of HR topics
Where were going
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The 4 Key Topics:
Managing Money:
Managerial (Engineering) Economics,
Accounting, Finance & Investments,
etc.

Managing Technology
Managing People: & Operations:
Organizational Behavior, Management Science,
Human Resources, Quality & Six-Sigma,
Leadership, Production & Logistics,
Communication, etc. IT Systems, etc.

Managing Ideas:
Strategy & Policy, Law,
Markets, etc.
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We draw many ideas and methods from

related & foundational disciplines including:
Economics, Psychology, Sociology, History,
Political Science, Anthropology, Demography,
Health Sciences & Medicine
Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Research
Methods, Systems Science & Engineering,
Industrial Engineering
Philosophy (including Ethics & Philosophy of
Science), Communications, Law
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The 6 major HR topics:
Recruitment and retention (encouraging applications from the
external labor pool and defeating the efforts of competitors to
recruit from your existing talent)
Selection (including internal staffing and duty assignment
decisions & some aspects of promotion)
Performance (including productivity, absenteeism, performance
appraisal, & some aspects of promotion)
Training and development (very broadly construed)
Compensation & benefits (including health care)
Employee attitudes & motivation (satisfaction, commitment,
engagement, etc.)
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Where were going in the first half of
the course:
An introductory synthesis integrating
money, strategy, & trends with HR topics
Slide sets on
the investment perspective
HR strategy issues (this last included some ideas from
systems science)
Ch 1 (overview of LAMP approach)
Ch 2 (research methods & financial concepts)
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Where were going in the first half of the
course (contd):
Various visits to some of the 6 major HR topics:
Performance (including productivity, absenteeism (Ch. 3))
Recruitment and retention (Ch. 4 on Turnover)
Compensation & benefits (including health care (Ch. 5) )
Employee attitudes & motivation (satisfaction, commitment,
engagement, etc.) (Ch. 6)
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Where were going in the second half of the course:
More visits to some of the 6 major HR topics:
Recruitment and retention (Ch. 7 on Work-life fit)
Selection (including internal staffing and duty assignment
decisions & some aspects of promotion) (Ch.s 8 & 10)
Performance (Ch. 9) (including productivity, performance
appraisal, & some aspects of promotion)
Training and development (Ch. 11) (very broadly construed)
Compensation & benefits (a short separate slide set on
topics not in text, e.g. executive compensation)
Final summary and integration (Ch. 12)
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