Course Description
The goal of this course is to prepare a nonprofit manager with effective human resources tools, policies and processes. The course is focused around the student developing human resources tools at each stage of an employee’s life cycle: hiring, onboarding, training, employee evaluations, corrective action and employee separation. The course centers around building components of the final project – a nonprofit manager’s employee supervision toolkit & manual.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Outline an organization’s hiring process.
- Develop key documents needed in hiring including job postings, job descriptions and interview script and scoring.
- Develop a plan to onboard and train new employees.
- Write a sample performance evaluation of an employee using best practices.
- Apply best practices of managing difficult staff members and develop a corrective action plan and separation plan for a sample employee.
- Evaluate an employee manual to ensure that it follows best practices and addresses key legal issues.
- Review a volunteer program to identify processes and best practices.
- Create a nonprofit manager’s employee supervision toolkit manual synthesizing practical human resources tools.
Syllabus
Course Materials & Tuition
| Armstrong, S., & Mitchell, B. (2019). The Essential HR Handbook, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional (Revised edition). Weiser. ISBN: 1632651394. 256 pages. | $9.99 |
| McCormick, J. (2021). The First-Time Manager (7th edition). HarperCollins Leadership. | $15.79 |
| Tuition | $800.00 |
| Total Cost of Course | $825.78 |
Project Requirements
In the final project, you will take a sample staff policy handbook and adapt it to be used in practice by the organization for which you work or another organization with which you are familiar.
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