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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

You can access this free course by clicking on this link

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

To access this HR course, click here.

This whitepaper is still avalaible and of interest to HR professionals, trainers, executives and managers, and anyone else involved in improving organizational performance through enhancing organizational learning within the organization. Since these offers expire and this one has been around awhile, if it interests you, grab it now.

Informal Learning: Extending the Impact of Enterprise Ideas and Information

Short Description: Forward-thinking organizations are turning to enterprise learning in their quest to be better informed, better skilled, better supported at the point of need, and more competitive in their respective marketplaces.

It is clear that as enterprise learning becomes a central part of strategic business alignment, the anytime, anywhere promises of eLearning are more likely to be met by extending the metaphor of the classroom and taking better advantage of today’s informal learning tools, resources, and techniques.

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Here is another email based course in the HR field, or for people in small businesses who have to do their own hiring. Of course there is no way, in advance, to tell if this course will fill your needs, but then again, it is free, and you can also stop if you find it isn’t for you. Below is their description (from about.com).

Recruit and Hire the Best

Recruiting the best employees for your organization is an ongoing challenge for every manager, supervisor and Human Resources professional. If you’re looking for solid, proven best practices and up-to-the-minute ideas in recruitment, interviewing and selection, you’ve found the right course.

Participants in the class will cover the following areas of interest during the five weeks of the course. You will learn:

* Why an effective job description makes good business sense as the starting point for recruiting staff,
* Creative ways to find potential employees,
* How to use your team for recruitment,
* Top ten recruiting tips,
* How to screen potential employees,
* Eight hiring mistakes employers make: from application to interview,
* Ask right to hire right: how the interview approach can help you select the best candidate,
* Tips for interview approaches, and
* Best practices in interviewing.

You will learn to develop a superior workforce via a documented hiring process that:

* Defines the outcomes desired from the person you hire,
* Develops a job description that clearly describes performance responsibilities,
* Develops the largest pool of qualified candidates possible,
* Devises a careful candidate selection process to hire the best staff,
* Performs appropriate background checks,
* Makes an employment offer that confirms your position as an employer of choice.

Classes start every week. You will receive the weekly study guide on the same morning on which you signed up to have the course delivered to your email address. You can take the class at your own pace, but you will receive the emails every week.

The Recruit and Hire the Best training class is free. The only cost to you is the time you spend working on the lessons.

Click here for more information or to signup

I guess I haven’t been paying attention since I didn’t realize there were email based courses offered on various interesting topics. This one (they send you learning material for 5 days in a row) deals with doing effective interviews within a hiring context, something important for both human resources and managers who get involved in hiring.

Here’s the description:

Want to hire great employees? How to conduct a safe, legal job interview that also enables you to select the best candidate for your open positions is important. The job interview is one of the significant factors in hiring because so many employers count on the job interview to help determine their best, most qualified candidates.

Certainly the job interview is a key component in determining whether the candidate fits your company culture. This is so despite the fact that at least one research study indicates that selecting a candidate who performed well in an interview only increases your chances of hiring an employee who is successful by two percent.

So, perhaps the traditional job interview is accorded too much power in employee selection. But, since it is, you have the opportunity to either enhance your current skills or learn to do job interviews well, in this free email class.

Objectives of the Conduct Powerful Job Interviews Email Class

Learn more job interview tips and job interview techniques to make your job interviews a powerful tool and process to evaluate candidates. Specifically, in this job interview email class, you will learn:

• The approaches to job interviews that are available for your use.
• How to plan effective job interviews.
• Who should conduct the job interview.
• How to conduct the job interview.
• How to conduct behavioral job interviews.
• Job interview questions that are illegal and why they are illegal
• Excellent behavioral job interview questions.

For more information about this course, and to sign up (it’s a do it at your own pace course), click here.

Things sure have changed. Managers have much less leeway now because they have to comply with various rules, laws and practices, so they and their employing companies are protected. To make it more complex, laws vary by jurisdiction.

Here is a 1.5 hour free online course outlining various legal requirements and issues relevant to managers. It is meant to apply to the USA.

Here’s the description:

This free course outlines the major legal requirements and legislations with which employers must comply and shows how to develop management behaviors that help avoid discrimination in the workplace. The American Disabilities Act specifies very detailed requirements for employers and other organizations which MUST be provided to all constituents. Failure to satisfy these legal requirements can result in fines, penalties and expensive civil litigations. Please note this course is for educational purposes only. For legal advise please consult your attorney. All Global Mindset online courses are self-paced free training courses that are divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

More information or to take the Legal Issues In Management Course