Public sector human resource management
Ms Dierdre O'Neill
6 points * One 3-hour session per week * Second semester * City
Synopsis This subject aims to provide students with an understanding of the factors involved in the effective utilisation of people within organisations, together with an appreciation of a range of human resource systems and approaches used in modern public sector organisations. Students in this subject will concentrate on contemporary public sector human resource management issues including performance management, senior executive service systems, classifications structures and systems, incentive, contracts, benchmarking, grievance systems, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action concepts and their administration.
Assessment Written (assignment 3500 words): 50% * Examination (2 hours): 50%
Recommended texts
Corbett D C and others (eds) Public sector personnel policies for the 90s PSMI, 1990
Gardner M (ed) Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in the Public Sector, Macmillan, 1993