• Analyze key historical and legislative events in the development of personnel management in the public sector.
• Analyze pertinent issues, such as motivation and productivity, collective bargaining, labor relations, equal employment opportunity (EEO), affirmative action (AA), intergovernmental relations, and / or professionalism, facing public personnel managers.
• Assess external organizational and employee conditions as well as their implications to and impact on personnel management.
• Develop a proposal for strategic public personnel management for a specific setting.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in public personnel management.
• Write clearly and concisely about public personnel management using proper writing mechanics.