I. Personnel management. Recruitment and selection -- Promotion -- Job evaluation -- Compensation -- The Fair Labor Standards Act -- Employee benefits -- Merit system standards -- Personnel records management -- II. Employment relations. Collective bargaining (problem solving) -- Collective bargaining (positional) -- Labor-management relations -- Affirmative action -- Sexual harassment -- Ethnic discrimination -- Off-duty conduct -- Employee dating and privacy -- Employee due process -- ADA concerns -- Hatch Act and partisan practices -- III. Human resources management. Human resources planning -- Performance evaluation -- Employee development and training -- Layoff and Reduction-in-force -- Disparate treatment in disciplinary action -- Preponderance of evidence in discipline -- Summary discharge or progressive discipline? -- Managing the traditional worker -- Conflict resolutions and grievance handling -- Attendance management -- Comparative HRM.