Course Schedule

Human Resources Management (Certified HR Professional)

This course provides an introduction to the various functions of human resource management, including compensation and benefits, staffing, recruitment and selection, research, labour relations, training and development, health and safety, planning, mediation and arbitration, the influence of government legislation on industry, and human rights legislation and employment equity.

  • Current trends in HR and training
  • Leading and managing change
  • Performance management
  • Training programs
  • Succession plans
  • Motivation and employee engagement
  • Career development
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Leadership development
  • The fundamental issue of what does it mean to be Strategic about HRM?
  • The strategic uses of participative management
  • Foundational concerns: Strategic adaptability, managerial discretion, and the determinants of HR systems
  • Strategic HR functions; staffing, training, remuneration
  • Managing SHRM in a complex and uncertain organisational, social and economic context
  • Managing employment and other human resourcing relationships
  • Organisations, strategies and human resourcing
  • building SHRM capabilities,
  • SHRM program evaluation.
  • perspectives of HRM at the strategic, operational and functional levels of the organisation
  • The needs of highly competitive organisations in highly competitive environments and HRM.
  • High-commitment HRM
  • Internal and external fit in SHRM systems
  • Strategic renewal: Downsizing, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring