Human Resources Management

1. Explain the core principles and practices of human resource management.
2. Analyze job roles and design effective training programs.
3. Apply motivational theories to enhance employee performance.
4. Evaluate and manage conflict within organizational settings.
5. Understand the legal and ethical considerations in human resource decisions.

13 weeks, about 48 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module 1: Introduction to Human Resource Planning

   • Unit 1: Introduction to Human Resource Planning · 3 hours

     Read the unit introduction to understand the scope of Human Resource Management.. Define Human Resource Management and differentiate it from Personnel Management.. Discuss the historical evolution and models of Human Resource Management..

2. Week 2Module 1: Introduction to Human Resource Planning

   • Unit 2: Organizational Design and Personnel Functions · 3 hours

     Analyze the steps in designing an organizational structure.. Differentiate between formal and informal organizations.. Explain the concepts of responsibility, authority, and accountability..

3. Week 3Module 1: Introduction to Human Resource Planning

   • Unit 3: Job Design and Job Analysis · 3 hours

     Define job design and job analysis.. Compare the engineering, human, and job characteristics approaches to job design.. Discuss the techniques of job analysis and their applications..

4. Week 4Module 1: Introduction to Human Resource Planning

   • Unit 4: Staffing in Organization · 3 hours

     Define recruitment and selection.. Explain the recruitment process and its various methods.. Differentiate between selection and recruitment, and identify various forms of examination..

5. Week 5Module 1: Introduction to Human Resource Planning

   • Unit 5: Training and Staff Development · 3 hours

     Define training and staff development.. State the training needs and objectives of training.. Distinguish between pre-entry and in-service training..

6. Week 6Module 2: Compensation

   • Unit 1: Performance Appraisal · 3 hours

     Define performance appraisal and its scope.. List the reasons for performance appraisal.. Recognize an appraisal form and construct a rating scale for employee appraisal..

7. Week 7Module 2: Compensation

   • Unit 2: Compensation · 3 hours

     Define compensation and its purpose.. Explain the effects of economic, social, and ethical factors on salaries and wages.. Identify reasons why some employees in organizations pay higher wages than others..

8. Week 8Module 2: Compensation

   • Unit 3: Motivation · 3 hours

     Distinguish between McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y.. Discuss the Carrot-and-Stick approach as a motivation theory.. Explain the motivational work of McClelland and Hertzberg..

9. Week 9Module 2: Compensation

   • Unit 4: Career Systems · 3 hours

     Identify what a career is and list various types of careers.. Explain what each type of career stands for.. List factors used in distinguishing between one type of career from another..

10. Week 10Module 2: Compensation

    • Unit 5: Leadership · 3 hours

      Define leadership and identify and explain a number of leadership theories.. Differentiate types of power in leadership..

11. Week 11Module 3: Organizational Culture and Socialization

    • Unit 1: Communication in Human Resource Management · 3 hours

      Define communication and state models of communication.. State and explain communication channels.. Explain various barriers to effective communication in an organization..

    • Unit 2: Collective Bargaining and Negotiation · 3 hours

      Define collective bargaining and identify the process of collective bargaining.. Identify and be able to apply the strategy of bargaining..

12. Week 12Module 4: Ethics in the Public Service

    • Unit 3: Organizational Culture and Socialization · 3 hours

      State the concept of organizational culture and explain the characteristics of organizational culture.. Analyze the functions of organizational culture and explain socialization and monitoring..

    • Unit 4: Management Development · 3 hours

      Define management development and identify management knowledge and skills.. List and explain various methods used in management development..

13. Week 13Module 4: Ethics in the Public Service

    • Unit 5: Decision Making · 3 hours

      Define decision-making and locate where decision-making capacity can be enlarged.. List steps in decision-making process and recognize how decision-making ability can be improved..

    • Unit 1: Ethics in Public Service · 3 hours

      Define ethics and identify its significance in organization.. List attitudes which can be termed as good conduct..