Human Resources Management

1. Understand the core functions of human resource management.
2. Apply various strategies for acquiring, utilizing, training, and rewarding employees.
3. Analyze the dynamics of human resource management in different organizational contexts.
4. Design effective strategies for organizing cooperation and managing conflicts in workplace labor-management relations.
5. Evaluate the effectiveness of HRM practices and policies.
6. Understand the legal and ethical considerations in human resource management.

13 weeks, about 44 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module One: Introduction to HRM

   • Unit 1: The personnel function of management · 2 hours

     Read Unit 1: Understand the role of personnel management in organizations.. Define personnel management and explain its scope.. Identify the major areas of personnel functions..

   • Unit 2: Human resource management · 2 hours

     Explain the essence and nature of human resource management.. Contrast HRM with traditional personnel management.. Analyze human resources management activities and functions..

2. Week 2Module One: Introduction to HRM

   • Unit 3: Human resource planning · 2 hours

     Discuss the need for a planned approach to HRM.. Define human resource planning.. Discuss the critical elements of the human resource planning model..

   • Unit 4: Planning for organizational entry · 2 hours

     Familiarize yourself with the different theoretical approaches to the staffing process.. Understand the importance of job analysis.. Comprehend the work involved in job analysis..

3. Week 3Module One: Introduction to HRM

   • Unit 5: Communication for effective management · 2 hours

     Explain why communication is important to managers.. Analyze how communication involves various kinds.. Explain the relevance of the communication process..

4. Week 4Module Two: Staffing the organisation

   • Unit 6: Attracting a pool of applicants · 2 hours

     Define what recruitment is all about.. Name the various sources for attracting candidates.. Explain and evaluate the various methods of recruitment..

   • Unit 7: Assessing and selecting human resources · 2 hours

     Explain the need for selection.. Identify an appropriate combination of methods to aid selection decisions.. Explain the purpose and problems of interview as a selection tool..

5. Week 5Module Two: Staffing the organisation

   • Unit 8: Managing the joining-up process · 2 hours

     Understand the importance of managing the joining-up process.. Identify the key elements in managing the joining-up process.. Discuss the challenges involved in managing the joining-up process..

   • Unit 9: Managing performance · 2 hours

     Discuss performance management as a core function of human resource management.. Describe and understand the control loop.. Contribute meaningfully to standard setting processes..

6. Week 6Module Two: Staffing the organisation

   • Unit 10: Performance appraisal systems · 2 hours

     Identify the purpose and uses of appraisal system.. Understand and explain some of the important operational imperatives.. Identify different methods of appraisals..

7. Week 7Module Three: Empowering and rewarding employees

   • Unit 11: Employee's training and development · 2 hours

     Explain what training and development are all about.. Explain the responsibility structure for training function.. Explain the features of a planned approach to the training functions..

   • Unit 12: Management development · 2 hours

     Explain the need for management development.. Discuss the various approaches to management development.. Explain the importance of evaluating management development programmes..

8. Week 8Module Three: Empowering and rewarding employees

   • Unit 13: Motivation of employees at work · 2 hours

     Provide a comprehensive definition of motivation.. Discuss the various content and process theories of motivation.. Describe the applications of these theories by management..

   • Unit 14: Job evaluation · 2 hours

     Define and explain the nature and principles of job evaluation.. List and discuss the major non-analytical and analytical methods of job evaluation.. Comment on the merits and demerits of each of the basic methods of job evaluation..

9. Week 9Module Three: Empowering and rewarding employees

   • Unit 15: Reward systems · 2 hours

     Discuss why an organization needs a well-designed reward system.. List the criteria that a well-designed material reward system should satisfy.. Explain in some detail, the main types of payment system in common use..

10. Week 10Module Four: Labour-management relations

    • Unit 16: Industrial relations context · 2 hours

      Describe the contrasting frame of references that inform industrial relations practices of managers.. Explain the meaning and features of industrial relations.. Describe the structure and processes of the three main actors in an industrial relations system..

    • Unit 17: Discipline and disciplinary procedures · 2 hours

      Understand the meaning of discipline.. Explain the causes of disciplinary action.. Explain the importance of disciplinary procedures..

11. Week 11Module Four: Labour-management relations

    • Unit 18: Grievance procedures · 2 hours

      Understand the meaning of the term grievance.. Distinguish between discipline and grievance.. Describe critically the main stages in a formal procedure for handling grievances..

    • Unit 19: Collective bargaining · 2 hours

      Define the collective bargaining concept.. Discuss the key conditions for effective collective bargaining.. Distinguish between negotiation and consultation..

12. Week 12Module Four: Labour-management relations

    • Unit 20: Managing employee's organisational exit · 2 hours

      Recognize the importance and difficulty of exit in your organization.. Recognize the different ways in which retirement may be managed.. Weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of implementing redundancy programmes..

13. Week 13Final Revision

    • Final Revision · 4 hours

      Review all modules. Work on assignments. Prepare for examination.