Readings

• Ehrenreich, B. (2010). Nickel and dimed. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company (195-221) available through the Library Resources tab
• Bowe, J., & Bowe, M. (2001). Gig: Americans talk about their jobs. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press (48-55; 54-59; 616-623) available through the Library Resources tab
• Binyamin Appelbaum, The Jobs Americans Do.

1. Complete Orientation Assignments
2. Complete Academic Integrity Quiz and Statement
3. Post in the L01 Sharing Activity: Why Do You Work?
4. Submit the L01 Individual Essay on Work Satisfaction

Readings

• Tyson, S (2015). Individual Differences. Essentials of Human Resource Management. New York. Routledge. pp. 2-14 available on the Library Resources tab
• Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener. A Story of Wall-Street

1. Participate in the L02 Discussion on the Workplace
2. Submit the L02 Quiz on The Individual at the Workplace

Readings

• William A. Klein and John C. Coffee, Jr., Business Organization and Finance, 7th edition, pp. 5-6, 50-52, 104-109 available on Library Reserves.
• GPH Panel of Experts. Theory of Bureaucracy. MPA-012 Administrative Theory. Delhi, India. Gullybaba Publishing. 2017. 9789381066447. pp. 1-17 available on Library Reserves.
• Henri Fayol, "General Principles of Management" available on Library Reserves.

1. Submit the L03 Individual Essay on Organizations

Readings

• At-Will Employee FAQs. FindLaw.com Thomson Reuters
• Ryan, Liz (2016). “Ten Ways Employment At Will is Bad for Business.
• Noe, R. (2020). Providing Equal Employment Opportunity and a Safe Workplace. Fundamentals of Human Resouce Management. 8th Edition. Boston. pp. 63-83 available on the Library Resources tab.

1. Submit the L04 Individual Essay on Employment-At-Will
2. Complete the L04 Quiz on the Legal Environment

Readings

• Noe, R. (2020). Recruiting Human Resources. Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 8th Edition (pp. 147-161, 168-193) available on the Library Resources tab.

1. Participate in the L05 Discussion Forum on Interview Experiences
2. Submit the L05 Quiz on Recruitment and Selection

Readings

• Noe, R. (2020). Training Employees. Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 8th Edition (pp. 201-229) available on the Library Resources tab.

1. Submit the L06 Individual Essay on Orientation
2. Submit the L06 Quiz on Onboarding and Training

Readings

• Chapter 11, Bauer, Tayla, et. al. (2020). Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics. pp. 365-395 available on the Library Resources tab.
• Chapter 4. Weil, David, The Fissured Workplace. 2014 available on the Library Resources tab.

1. Submit the L07 Individual Essay on the Wage Gap
2. Submit the L07 Quiz on Compensation: Wages and Benefits

Readings

• Pulakos, Elaine D. Performance Management. Society for Human Resource Management (2014).

1. Participate in the L08 Discussion on Performance Management

Readings

• Watch the movie: The Inheritance located in the L09 Discussion activity.
• Chapter 2, pp. 37-77. Holley, Jennings and Wolters. The Labor Relations Process available through the Library Resources tab.

1. Participate in the L09 Discussion on The Inheritance
2. Submit the L09 Quiz on Labor History

Readings

• Bennett-Alexander and Hartman (2019).  Employment Law for Business, 9th edition. Chapter 15, pp. 791-826 available on the Library Resources tab

1. Submit the L10 Individual Essay on NLRA
2. Submit the L10 Quiz on NLRA

Readings

• Chapter 6, pp. 266-303. The Labor Relations Process, 11th Edition by Holley, Jennings and Wolters (2017) available through the Library Resources tab.
• Johansson, E. (2017, April 21). Collective Bargaining 101. Retrieved February 02, 2018, from http://www.jwj.org/collective-bargaining-101
• Littleton, C. (2017, May 02). Inside the WGA-AMPTP Negotiating Room: Speeches, Strategies and Social Media That Averted a Strike. Retrieved February 02, 2018, from http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/wga-amptp-negotiations-strike-contract-1202407152/
   

1. Participate in the L11 Discussion on Collective Bargaining
2. Submit the L11 Quiz on Collective Bargaining

Readings

• Chapter 10, pp. 496-526. The Labor Relations Process, 11th Edition by Holley, Jennings and Wolters. (2017) available on the Library Resources tab
• Sample Grievance ProcedureDownload Sample Grievance Procedure, Vanderbilt University and Laborers’ International Union of North America, AFL-CIO 
• Sample Sick Leave Provision Download Sample Sick Leave Provision, Vanderbilt University and Laborers’ International Union of North America, AFL-CIO

1. Submit the L12 Essay on Grievance Scenario

Readings

• Chapters 1 and 2. Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History available through the Library Resources tab

1. Submit the L13 Individual Essay on Globalization

Readings

• Chapter 12. Rosen, Ellen Israel. Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry (2002). Berkley: University of California Press available through the Library Resources tab.
  On page 227 of this reading, the author appears to refer to "Puerto Rican women" as immigrants. Puerto Rican residents have been recognized as citizens of the United States since the Jones Act of 1917. As such, movement of Puerto Ricans represents internal migration, not immigration.
• Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong. The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017. You can create a free New York Times account by following the directions on the Penn State Student Affairs website.

1. Participate in the L14 Discussion on Globalization

Readings

• Lambert, Craig, Shadow Work: the unpaid, unseen jobs that fill your day. (2015), pp. 106-113 available on the Library Resources tab
• Download and read the FMLA Employee Guide (English) in PDF format from the U.S. Department of Labor, The Employee’s Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act  (2015)

1. Participate in the L15 Discussion on the "Sandwich Generation"