PART (1) THE CONTEXT OF THE PRACTICE OF HRM

TOPIC 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 

• The Essentials of Management and Importance if Human Resource Management
• The Foundations of HRM –HRM functions and areas of practice-
• HRM in a Small Business
• HRM in a Global Marketplace

TOPIC 2: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

2.1. The Global Village and its HRM Implications

TOPIC 3: UNDERSTANDING EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

3.1. Laws Affecting Discriminatory Practices (Egyptian Law Oriented Study) 
3.2. Guarding Against Discrimination Practices
3.3. Selected Relevant Cases
3.4. Enforcing Equal Employment Opportunity 
3.5. Current Issues in Employment Law

TOPIC 4: MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES AND DESIGNING JOBS

4.1. Characteristics of Motivation
4.2. A Model of Motivation
4.3. Implications of the Model for Motivating Employees
4.4. Job Designs to Increase Motivation
4.5. Unique Motivation Challenges for HRM

PART (2) STAFFING THE ORGANIZATION

TOPIC 5: EMPLOYMENT PLANNING AND JOB ANALYSIS

5.1. An Organizational Framework
5.2. Linking Organizational Strategy to Employment Planning
5.3. Determining Essential Skills, Knowledge and Abilities (Job Analysis)
5.4. Current Issues in Employment Planning

TOPIC 6: RECRUITING AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF SELECTIONS

6.1. Recruiting Goals
6.2. Recruiting from an International Perspective
6.3. Recruiting Sources
6.4. Goals of the Selection Process
6.5. Key Elements for Successful Predictors 
6.6. Selection from an International Perspective

TOPIC 7: EFFECTIVE SELECTION DEVICES

7.1. The Application Form
7.2. Employment Tests
7.3. Interviews
7.4. Background Investigation
7.5. Medical/Physical Examinations
7.6. The Realistic Job Preview 
7.7. Selection of Self-Managed Teams

PART (3) TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

TOPIC 8: SOCIALIZING, ORIENTING, AND DEVELOPING EMPLOYEES

8.1. The Outsider: Insider Passage
8.2. The Propose of New Employee Orientation 
8.3. What is Employee Training
8.4. Organizational Development 
8.5. Evaluating Training and Development Effectiveness
8.6. International Training and Development Issues

TOPIC 9: MANAGING CAREERS

9.1. What is a Career?
9.2. Career Stages
9.3. Career Choices and Preferences
9.4. Managing Career

PART (4) APPRAISAL AND PAY SYSTEMS

TOPIC 10: EVALUATING EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE

10.1. The Linkage to Motivation
10.2. Performance Management Systems 
10.3. Performance Appraisals and EEO
10.4. The Appraisal Process
10.5. Appraisal Methods
10.6. Factors That Can Distort Appraisals
10.7. Creating More Effective Performance Management Systems
10.8. International Performance Appraisal

TOPIC 11: ESTABLISH REWARDS AND PAY PLANS

11.1. The Linkage to Motivation
11.2. Types of Employee Rewards
11.3. What is Compensation Administration?
11.4. Government Influences on Compensation Administration (An Egyptian Framework)
11.5. Job Evaluation and the Pay Structure
11.6. Special Cases of Compensation
11.7. Executive Compensation Programs
11.8. International Compensation

TOPIC 12: EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

12.1. Legally Required Benefits
12.2. Voluntarily Benefits
12.3. An Integrative Perspective on Employee Benefits

PART (5) CREATING A PRODUCTIVE, SAFE, AND FAIR WORKPLACE

TOPIC 13: EMPLOYEE RIGHTS

13.1. Employment Rights Legislation and Their Human Resource Management Implications 
13.2. The Role of Employment-at-Will Doctrine
13.3. Discipline and Employee Rights
13.4. Employee Counseling

TOPIC 14: SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAMS

14.1. Legal Framework for Occupational Safety and Health
14.2. Job Safety Programs
14.3. Maintaining a Healthy Work Environment  
14.4. Stress and Workplace
14.5. The Employee Assistance Programs
14.6. International Safety and Health

TOPIC 15: EFFECTIVE HRM COMMUNICATIONS

15.1. HRM Communication Programs
15.2. A Guide for Employees: The Employee Handbook
15.3. Communications and the Off-Site Employee
15.4. Mechanisms for Effective Upward Communications 

TOPIC 16: LABOR RELATIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

16.1. Why Do Employees Join Unions
16.2. Labor Legislation
16.3. How Are Employees Unionized?
16.4. Collective Bargaining
16.5. Critical Issues for Unions Today
16.6. International Labor Relations