Duke University
Human Resource Stewardship for Churches
Duke University

Human Resource Stewardship for Churches

Russell Elmayan

Instructor: Russell Elmayan

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Beginner level
No prior experience required
6 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
6 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Framing HR management in a theological perspective

    Writing job descriptions, developing goals and objectives, and addressing poor performance

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July 2024

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4 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the ​​Church Administration: Human Resources Specialization
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There are 4 modules in this course

This week, we will discuss how a church setting is a distinctive type of organization that requires sound human resource management. Coursera defines human resource management as “organizing, coordinating, and managing an organization’s current employees to carry out an organization’s mission, vision, and goals. This includes recruiting, hiring, training, compensating, retaining, and motivating employees.” We will explore how established secular principles of human resource management should apply to the church, and how scripture molds best practice into human resource stewardship, a distinctive theology of human resource management.

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5 videos12 readings1 assignment4 discussion prompts

This week will focus on the development of job descriptions for employees and volunteers, as well as the hiring process and background checks.

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7 videos4 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

This week will focus on performance evaluation, goals and objectives for employees, volunteer management, safe environment training, and misconduct and harassment prevention.

What's included

5 videos5 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

This week will focus on having difficult conversations with employees, the benefits and detriments of the use of empathy in human resource stewardship in the church, adapting supervisory approaches to employes, and salary and benefit equity and salary compression.

What's included

6 videos8 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

Instructor

Russell Elmayan
Duke University
1 Course117 learners

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Duke University

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