科目ナンバー

GM-OM3-EP16

履修条件・関連科目等

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授業で使用する言語

英語

授業で使用する言語（その他の言語）

授業の概要

This course is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in public human resource management. This course encompasses the personnel functions of recruitment, selection, training and development, motivation and compensation, performance appraisal, affirmative action, ethics, and corruption. The emphasis of this class is on improving understanding of the historical context and current conditions of public human resource management and developing skills necessary to be effective public managers.

科目目的

From this course, students will learn knowledge as well as insight on public human resource management. For the knowledge part, students will learn theories of public human resource management with various issues. For the insight part, students will apply theories to real-world problems through case analyses.

到達目標

- Understanding how and why the civil service system developed as it did.
- Know the government’s merit principles.
- Be familiar with the core aspects of public personnel management, including recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, compensation, representative bureaucracy, affirmative action, compensation, motivation, training and development, work-life balance, legal rights and responsibility, and ethics and corruption.

授業計画と内容

Week 1: Class Introduction and Overview of Public Human Resource Management

Required Readings

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 1: The Public Service Heritage: Context, Continuity, and Change


Week 2: Recruitment & Selection (Merit System vs. Spoils System)

Required Readings

Rosenbloom, D. & Kravchuk, R. S. (2005). Historical Background in Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector, pp. 202-211.

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 3: Recruitment: From Passive Posting to Head-hunting & Chapter 4: Selection: From Civil Service Commissions to Decentralized Decision Making.


Week 3: Representative Bureaucracy / Affirmative Action

Required Readings

Bailey, M. (2004). Review: Representative Bureaucracy: Understanding Its Past to Address Its Future. Public Administration Review, 64(2), 246-249.

Riccucci, Norma M. & Meyers, Marcia K. (2004). Linking Passive and Active Representation: The Case of Frontline Workers in Welfare Agencies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 14(4), 585-597.


Case Analysis: High court backs firefighters reverse discrimination suit from CNN News


Week 4: Compensation / Employee Engagement

Required Readings

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 7: Compensation: Vital, Visible, Vicious
Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 6: Employee Engagement: Possible, Probable, or Impossible

Week 5: Appraising Employee Performance

Required Readings

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 10: Appraisal: A Process in Search of a Technique


Week 6: Training & Development

Required Readings

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 9: Training, Learning, Development: Exploring New Frontiers

Week 7: Civil Service in Japan (Guest Lecture)
Guest Lecturer: Katsuya Yamashita (International Personnel Administration Officer, International Affairs Division, National Personnel Authority)

Week 8: Work-Life Balance

Required Readings

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 8: Employee-Friendly Policies: Fashionable, Flexible, and Fickle

Week 9: Employee Turnover, Absenteeism, & Brain Drain

Ryu, Sangyub, and Young-joo Lee. 2013. Examining the role of management in turnover: A contingency approach. Public Performance and Management Review 37(1): 134-53.

Week 10: Legal Rights and Responsibilities

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 2: Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Laws Governing the Workplace.

Week 11: Unions and the Government

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 11: Unions and the Government: Protectors, Partners, and Punishers

Week 12: Collective Bargaining

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 12: Collective Bargaining: Structures, Strategies, and Skills

Week 13: The Future as Opportunity, Not Destiny

Berman et al. (2021). Chapter 13: The Future as Opportunity, Not Destiny

Week 14: Final Wrap up

授業時間外の学修の内容

指定したテキストやレジュメを事前に読み込むこと／授業終了後の課題提出

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授業時間外の学修に必要な時間数／週

・毎週１回の授業が半期（前期または後期）または通年で完結するもの。１週間あたり４時間の学修を基本とします。
・毎週２回の授業が半期（前期または後期）で完結するもの。１週間あたり８時間の学修を基本とします。

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アクティブ・ラーニングの実施内容

ディスカッション、ディベート／グループワーク／プレゼンテーション

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実務経験のある教員による授業

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テキスト・参考文献等

Berman, Evan M., Bowman, James S., West, Jonathan P. & Van Wart, Montgomery (2021). Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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