Fundamentals of Human Resources

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Detailed Overview/Outline

This workshop explores some of the primary disciplines in the human resources function. While obtaining exposure to a wide variety of topics - and an equally wide slate of experts who will be facilitating discussion of those topics - you will collaborate with seasoned professionals, and with each other, as you gain insight, acquire knowledge, and develop skills.

Key Topics

• The evolving role of the HR professional
• -- The HR professional as a strategic organizational partner
• -- Transactional vs. transformational
• Staffing
• -- The staffing continuum: how best to partner with organizational clients through every step of the process
• Basics of learning and development
• -- Roles
• -- Fundamental learning principles
• -- Learning-centered program outcomes
• -- Learning styles
• Key elements of performance management
• -- Goal setting
• -- Feedback and documentation
• -- Performance appraisal
• -- Employee development
• Components and importance of compensation
• -- Job analysis
• -- Job evaluation
• -- Internal and external equity
• -- Link between pay and performance
• Benefits: more than completing forms
• -- Benefits strategy
• -- Frequently utilized types
• -- Potential concerns around benefits costs
• -- Part of the total compensation package
• Ethcial considerations and concerns for HR professionals
• -- What is meant by business ethics
• -- How and where ethics weave through day-to-day HR activities
• -- Addressing ethical dilemmas through the use of case studies
• -- Benefits and consequences of behaving ethically
• Diversity: a critical dimension
• -- Fundamental concepts
• -- How it affects the role of HR

WHO WILL BENEFIT
HR professionals/practitioners with less than two years of experience in the profession; individuals who currently specialize in one HR discipline and who are interested in learning about other disciplines; individuals who do not currently work in the field but are interested in exploring HR as a possible profession.

Special Features
HR panel: Interact on several levels with a group of seasoned HR professionals. First, panelists will share relevant insights about their backgrounds, experience, and valuable lessons learned pertaining to the human resources profession. Small groups of participants will then collaborate on and develop solutions to challenging case studies and will present those recommendations to other workshop participants and to the panel.

The panelists will lead a discussion around and share additional insights about each case study presentation, linking their own experiences to each case study. Finally, you will be invited to ask open-ended questions to the panel. Questions can relate back to issues that emerged at other points in the workshop or to any other topic of interest.

Sponsor Background:

• Over 50 years ago, Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations was formed to provide training to employers to improve workplaces and workplace life.
• Cornell workshops have a reputation for being current in subject theory and application as well as on legal or regulatory issues.
• Classes are highly interactive…between student and instructor and student to student.
• Discussion groups, case studies, role plays, and other exercises provide practice for your learning.
• Your instructors are skilled communicators and experienced professionals committed to providing the finest in real world, practical education.
• The majority of our clients are repeat users…a testimony to the quality and value received.

Substitution and Cancellation Policy

Substitutions of registrants can be made at any time. Cancellations and transfers are subject to a 25% charge unless received in writing one week prior to the program. Registrants who do not cancel in writing prior to the program date and who do not attend are responsible for the entire fee.

Instructor(s):
John Colon, Cathy Lee Gibson, Ronald M. Katz, Nancy Lampen, J. Kirk Menard, Susan Alevas, Lolita Chandler, Nancy Lynch

Instructor Background:
John E. Colón, Director, Human Resources Management, Episcopal Church Center, world headquarters of the denomination. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Project Equality, a national EEO corporate workplace program. His expertise is in staffing, employee training, and organizational development.

Ronald M. Katz, President, Penguin Human Resources Consulting. Mr. Katz has extensive experience in human resources, training, and management development. Formerly, he was vice president, employee relations training, Chase Manhattan Bank. He is the author of “Recruiting Strategies for Today’s Staffing Trends” in Employee Relations Today.

Nancy Lampen, Director, Human Resources and Management Development Programs, Cornell University-ILR, Rochester. She designs, teaches, and manages programs in the areas of interpersonal and organizational communications, crisis communication, and train-the-trainer. Formerly, she was a professor of communications and was selected for Who's Who in America's Teachers, 1998 Edition.

J. Kirk Menard,President, Menard International Search, a leading executive search firm that specializes in recruitment and placement of R&D executives for firms in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Prior experience includes dean of Sage Junior College of Albany and professor of management in the Sage Graduate School MBA Program.

Susan F. Alevas, Private Attorney and President of Alevas Consulting Group, Inc., a management consulting/training firm. Ms. Alevas's management career includes both public- and private-sector executive and inhouse counsel leadership in HR and labor relations. Having donated her legal services to the survivors and families of September 11th, Ms. Alevas now serves as a volunteer mentor through the Long Island Works Coalition.

Cathy Lee Gibson,MBA, SPHR, is the President of NovaCore Performance Consulting, LLC. Ms. Gibson possesses more than 20 years of training, consulting, HR, and management experience from a range of industries, organizations, and sectors. She most recently served as the Director of Human Resource Management Programs at Cornell University’s ILR School. In this role, Ms. Gibson designed and directed all aspects of the human resource management program and instructed and facilitated numerous public and on-site workshops for managers and HR professionals. Her expertise spans a variety of topics, with a particular focus on strategic interviewing and performance management initiatives. .

Lolita Chandler, President, The Chandler Group, Inc., an executive resource company. Ms. Chandler combines her years of experience promoting diversity and multiculturalism in education and business to offer coaching and consulting services in diversity development to business, education, and not-for-profit organizations. Ms. Chandler recently served as the director of diversity for Avon Products.

Nancy G. Lynch, SPHR, Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources for Human Resource Consulting Associates (HRCA), which provides services in human resources, training, and organizational development. Ms. Lynch specializes in helping organizations to improve performance at all levels. She has more than 15 years of experience in human resource management, training and organization development.

Past Participants Include:
Past Participants in All Cornell Workshops Include

• AIG
• American Express
• AT&T
• Becton-Dickinson & Co.
• Bell Atlantic
• BMG
• Boeing
• Chase Manhattan Bank
• Citicorp
• Coca-Cola
• Corning Glass
• Estee Lauder
• General Motors
• Girl Scouts of America
• GTE
• IBM
• Johnson & Johnson
• Lucent
• Merck
• Mobil
• MTV
• NEC America
• New York City Criminal Justice Agency
• New York State Dept. of Labor
• Tiffany & Co.
• Time Warner
• UNICEF
• United States Postal Service
• United Technologies
• Xerox

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