FSLM 330 Personnel Management for the Fire Service (5 credits)
Prerequisite Admittance in the BAS-FSLM Program.
Course Description
This course examines relationships and issues in personnel administration and human resource development within the context of fire-related organizations, including personnel management, organizational development, productivity, recruitment and selection, performance management systems, discipline, and collective bargaining.
Course Content
A. Introduction to Personnel Management and Organizational Development
B. Motivation and Productivity
C. Recruitment, Selection, Promotion, and Human Resource Development
D. Performance Management, Performance Appraisal, Corrective Action, and Discipline
E. Employee and Labor Relations
Student Outcomes
1. Identify and explain contemporary personnel management issues.
2. Explain potential personnel management issues.
3. Classify the collective rules, procedures, laws, and policies that relate to personnel management issues.
4. Analyze simple/complex personnel management issues from recruitment to selection, as well as retention.
5. Formulate recommendations and solutions to personnel management issues.
6. Explore organizational development and leadership styles and how they relate to personnel relationships.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Fire Service Leadership Apply a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in the fire service. Fire Service Personnel Management Understand the theories and apply the practice of fire service personnel administration and human resource management Fire Systems Legal Issues: Understand and apply the legal framework of administrative actions and constitutional requirements to developing and maintaining a community fire protection system. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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