Assignment:
Prepare a course paper, approximately 12-15 pages in length (excluding appendices), on a topic related to the theme of Strategic Staffing. Within this broad theme, the course paper is intended to be an opportunity to explore, in some depth, a topic related to the course that is of specific significance to you.
Sample Topics
A list of example topics for course papers is provided below to provide some ideas. However, these are examples only. Please feel free to consider other staffing-related topics that are of interest to you.
• Alignment of staffing strategy with organizational strategy
• Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods: time, cost, quality, and retention
• Effects of utilizing realistic job reviews on employee selection, performance, and retention
• Current developments in job analysis
• Breaking the glass ceiling: Sociological, legal, and organizational issues
• Current issues: Managing the flexible workforce
• Current developments in selection testing and validation
• Defining the new careers of the 21st century and implications for staffing strategies
• Requirements and implementation strategies for a staffing management information system
• Developing innovative mobility paths for career development: Parallel tracks and lattice tracks