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Overview:

Many Americans dream of starting a business. But being self-employed or the employer of others brings a great deal of additional responsibility. This online course discusses the details of starting a business, including how to write a business plan, choosing a business type, obtaining financing, hiring employees, setting salaries, the importance of employee benefit plans (such as health care insurance and retirement plans), marketing, taxes, and business law.

Learning Objectives:

* Know how to write a business plan
* Select between the business forms of sole proprietorship, limited liability company, S corporation, or C corporation
* Use salary surveys for determining employee salaries and setting founder salaries in a startup company
* Describe how to use a marketing plan and advertising agencies in your small business development
* Utilize online HR resources, such as those provided by the Small Business Administration, to research employment law and income taxes

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Overview:

In this course you’ll learn how to create a pay-for-performance system for your organization. This differs from a variable pay plan (covered in DLC Course 75), in that pay-for-performance bases pay increases on a performance appraisal, not quantifiable work output. Pay for performance is growing in popularity because it allows organizations to reward employees for goals key to organization success. This course will show you whether or not pay for performance is appropriate for your company and how to set up a pay-for-performance plan.

Learning Objectives:

* Determine whether or not pay for performance is suitable for your organization
* Create an open rate range and guide chart
* Select a performance appraisal method
* Administer a pay-for-performance program
* Use research software to determine performance pay

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One of the responsibilities associated with human resources (HR) is the writing of job descriptions, used in determining salary, ranks, and in hiring. To do so properly involves carrying out a job analysis. This self-study course is available free of charge, provided you do not require the exam, or credit.

Overview:

This course will teach you how to perform job analysis from the ground up. The result of this work will be written job descriptions that are used for many personnel tasks, including job evaluation, hiring, and setting salaries. You will learn how job analysis questionnaires, such as the PAQ job analysis questionnaire, can be used to update your organization’s job documentation for legal compliance with FLSA new overtime laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and comparable worth legislation.

Learning Objectives:

* Differentiate between various methods of job analysis
* Collect appropriate information
* Write clear and concise job descriptions
* Recognize the job-description requirements set forth in wage and employment laws

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This course examines the historical evolution and current human and organizational contexts in which scientists, engineers and other professionals work. It outlines today’s major challenges facing the management profession and uses interactive exercises, simulations and problems to develop critical skills in negotiations, teamwork and leadership. It also introduces concepts and tools to analyze work and leadership experiences in optional undergraduate fieldwork projects.

Below is an overview of the topics covered.

1 Introduction and Overview (PDF)
2 Introduction to Teams and Teamwork (PDF)
3 Contemporary Management Challenges (PDF)
4 Work and Careers – Past, Present and Future
5 Organizational Analysis – Strategic Design Lens (PDF)
6 Organizational Analysis – Political Lens (PDF)
7 Organizational Analysis – The Cultural Lens (PDF)
8 Organizational Analysis – The Lincoln Electric Case
9 Shareholders or Stakeholders – A Debate (PDF)
10 The Nike Case (PDF)
11 Teams Revisited – Feedback and Workshop Session
12 Introduction to Negotiations (PDF)
13 Multi-party Negotiations
14 Recruitment/Job Offer Negotiations (PDF)
15 Leadership and Change – Introduction (PDF)
16 The Big Dig, Part 1
17 The Big Dig, Part 2
18 Social Influence, Communications and Selling Ideas
19 Organizational Change
20 Organizational Change (cont.)
21 Managing the Innovation Process
22 Team Presentations
23 Alumni Panel
24 Technology and Its Social Context
25 Inventing the Future
26 Inventing the Future (cont.)

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