A.S. in Human Resources Management Virginia College

The Human Resource Management program is designed to prepare human resource professionals to deal with the complexities and challenges of managing today's workforce. The courses will show you how you can help in the professional development of men and women in the field of human resources. You'll prepare to work in such settings as business, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations and institutions.

Assessing Management's Pay Among Comparables

This course covers the new ability of analysts to quickly collect and compare, contrast and combine, data from public records to make an infinite number of comparison reports via geographic area, industry, and/or size and profitability.  The Internet now allows instantaneous retrieval of publicly traded corporate financial information from 1994 to the present.  This course will show how this data can be quickly combined (to create appraisal norms) or otherwise analyzed to create competitive comparisons of pay for any selected group of companies.

Creating a Competitive Salary Assessment

Determining pay ranges is a complicated task.  This course discusses the importance of setting and administering equitable pay structures.  The differences between merit and automatic progression are analyzed.  Special attention is focused on the challenges that compensation managers must face, including the labor market, retention, unions, and the impact of free salary information on the Internet.

Creating a Competitive Wage Structure

This course focuses on the development of a single competitive salary structure for a single market, with the goal of allowing a company to achieve salary levels that at least match the average for the comparison competitive group of companies. It shows you how to create this structure using every job in the organization or only benchmark jobs. Then it explains how to audit and maintain this structure over time.

Designing a Branch Office Wage Structure

This course shows you how to establish a branch office wage structure. You will learn how to determine if your company can apply its headquarters’ structure directly to the branch office, must adjust the headquarters’ structure, or needs a new structure entirely. Geographic wage and cost-of-living levels are discussed, as they apply to the wage structure decision. Then branch office structures for major U.S. cities and their suburbs are analyzed. Canadian and international structures are covered, as well.

Developing and Conducting Job Analysis for Your Organization

Before setting pay, it is necessary to establish a job hierarchy for your organization. Developing such a hierarchy has two basic steps: analyzing jobs and evaluating those jobs to create a hierarchy. This course will focus on the first step: that of analyzing jobs. The final product of job analysis are job descriptions, which are used for many personnel tasks. This includes establishing fair hiring and pay practices.

Factors that Influence Pay Level Decisions

There are many factors that impact pay structure decisions. Labor costs, competition, cost-of-living  increases, unions, and the local labor market all must be considered. This course gives users a firm grasp on what must be taken into account when setting salary structures.

Immigration Prevailing Wage Analyses

This course introduces an analyst to the analysis of the maximum level of compensation allowed for an immigrant (into the U.S. under H1-B, etc.) as now allowed under GAL 2-98 and 1-00.  Both private survey and OES data are reviewed, with a comparison of sources, survey content, and methodologies.  The course reviews the preparation of alternative reports, the present adoption criteria of various states, and the hidden assumptions related to safeharbor data.

Installing Job Evaluation in Your Organization

While growing in importance worldwide, job evaluation is losing ground in the United States. Some U.S. compensation specialists now rely almost entirely on “what the market pays” when setting salaries. This course reviews the history of job evaluation and shows where it still holds great importance – in the fight against pay discrimination. We will guide you through the steps of job evaluation, where jobs are classified based on their duties and importance. Upon completion, you will be ready to launch a job evaluation program in your own organization.