Course Syllabus

COURSE & SECTION: FES 4045 Personnel Management for the Fire Service

SESSION: This is an on-line course. There will be times scheduled for on-line meetings.

INSTRUCTOR: Dale Deleacaes CONTACT EMAIL: ddeleacaes@templeterrace.com PHONE OR TEXT: 813-629-8205

COURSE WEBSITE: www.efireinstitute.com

REQUIRED TEXT: Fire Service Personnel Management, 3rd Edition (2010); Steven T. Edwards, Brady Publishing (Pearson) ISBN 0135126770

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE: Crew Resource Management: Principles and Practice, (2011); Dyar/Evans/LeSage, Jones & Bartlett ISBN 978- 0763771782

Additional resources may be posted periodically on the course site under the Resource tab.

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.

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: None

PURPOSE OF COURSE: This course examines concepts and principles of community risk assessment, planning, and response to fires and natural and human-caused disasters, including National Incident Management System-- Incident Command Systems (NIMS ICS), mutual aid and automatic response, training and preparedness, communications, civil disturbances, terrorist threats/incidents, hazardous materials planning, mass casualty incidents, earthquake preparedness, and disaster mitigation and recovery.

COURSE GOALS AND/OR OBJECTIVES: By the end of this course, students will:

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 retirement.

5. Formulate recommendations and solutions to personnel management issues.

6. Explore organizational development and leadership styles and how they relate to personnel relationships.

HOW THIS COURSE RELATES TO THE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES IN THE FIRE EMERGENCY SERVICES PROGRAM: Properly address issues of management, code regulations, and the labor market in fire and emergency services.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY: I am looking for students to demonstrate a working knowledge of the subject. You need to be creative when you complete your assignments but maintain a professional appearance of your work. Your work needs to be complete and in such a manner that someone can pick up your document and understand what you are trying to convey. And most of all your work needs to be supported with research and cited in properly in APA format.

INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS: The course is designed for individual and group interactivity. It is important to post and respond to discussion questions in the course within the time frame allotted. This provides a learning environment by networking with other students in the course. The assignments are individual base to give you the opportunity to do a variety of activities, in many cases, similar to what you will be doing in role as a leader in the emergency services profession.

COURSE POLICIES:

ATTENDANCE POLICY: The course is designed in module format. You should check the site at least once a week. You are required to complete the assignments including discussion questions within the time period designated on the module. There will be meetings set up throughout the course. 

QUIZ/EXAM POLICY: There is a final project for this course. There are no quizzes.

MAKE-UP POLICY: You must contact me if you are going to be late on any assignment to receive credit.

ASSIGNMENT POLICY: All assignments have a due date. Please be sure to check the date and time it is due in each module.

COURSE TECHNOLOGY: Class meetings will require a web camera and mic/audio. If you are not able to use a web camera you will need to at least provide audio/mic, you can call in on a phone also.

NETIQUETTE: COMMUNICATION COURTESY: All members of the class are expected to follow rules of common courtesy in all email messages, threaded discussions and chats. [Describe what is expected and what will occur as a result of improper behavior] http://teach.ufl.edu/docs/NetiquetteGuideforOnlineCourses.pdf

HONESTY POLICY

Students are bound by a Code of Honor,which states “We pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honor and integrity by abiding by an Honor Code. All work submitted for credit by students at eFire Institute, the following pledge is either required or implied: “On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment.” Furthermore, you are obliged to report any condition that facilitates academic misconduct the course facilitator. If you have any questions or concerns, please consult with the instructor of in this class.