Course Learning Outcomes

Define the functions needed to manage human resources.

Explain why public jobs are scarce resources.

Describe the four traditional values that underlie the conflict over public jobs.

Identify the myths and realities of public employment in the United States.

• Describe how systems affect public HRM functions in practice.
• Identify traditional civil service system assumptions.
• Recognize the contemporary model of HRM that links these challenges with values, functions, organizational mission, and multiple perspectives.
• Distinguish four key recommendations for improving public sector HRM.
• Directions
• Respond to the following questions:
• What are the four competing values that have traditionally affected the allocation of public jobs?
• Considering that public organizations are dynamic changing environments, which three non-government values that have emerged recently conflict with them?

Has the recent pandemic and shifts in workforce practices impacted these values or accelerated the conflict with private sector values?