The Teacher Workforce: Management and Policy

Harvard HKS

This course is about the challenges of managing human resources, with a focus on teachers and the education sector. The course is motivated by practical questions: whom to hire, fire, or promote, when to provide on-the-job training, how to evaluate job performance, whether to tie pay to performance, how to design jobs, how to structure retirement benefits, and others. We will examine these questions using tools from economics, especially labor and personnel economics. Underlying these…