Public Personnel Management

1. Explain the principles and practices of public personnel management.
2. Apply human resource planning techniques to forecast workforce needs.
3. Develop effective recruitment and selection strategies.
4. Design and implement training programs to enhance employee skills.
5. Administer compensation and benefits packages that attract and retain talent.
6. Manage employee relations and resolve conflicts effectively.
7. Promote ethical conduct and accountability in public service.
8. Apply decision-making models to solve complex organizational problems.
9. Understand the dynamics of leadership and its impact on organizational performance.
10. Manage disciplinary actions and employee separations fairly and legally.

13 weeks, about 173 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module One

   • Unit 1: Origin, evolution, definition and place of personnel management in organizations · 8 hours

     Explore the origin and evolution of personnel management.. Define personnel management and its scope.. Identify the functions and processes of personnel management..

   • Unit 2: Location of personnel management in organizations · 7 hours

     Examine the location of personnel management functions within an organization.. Draw an organizational chart indicating the location of personnel management.. Define line and staff concepts..

2. Week 2Module One

   • Unit 3: Planning of organization's human resources · 8 hours

     Define human resource planning.. Explain the concept of manpower inventory.. Discuss the forecast of future manpower requirements..

   • Unit 4: Recruitment and recruitment policies and methods · 7 hours

     Define recruitment.. Distinguish recruitment in theory from practice.. Identify recruitment markets and their limitations.. Explain the tools used in the recruitment process..

3. Week 3Module One

   • Unit 5: Staff selection process · 9 hours

     Identify the selection process in personnel management.. Define staff selection.. Explain the difference between selection and recruitment.. Identify various forms of examination..

4. Week 4Module Two

   • Unit 1: Internal selections · 8 hours

     Define internal selection.. Identify types of internal selection processes.. Explain how each type of internal selection process is carried out..

   • Unit 2: Career systems · 7 hours

     Say what a career is.. List various types of careers.. Explain what each type of career is.. List factors used to distinguish between careers..

5. Week 5Module Two

   • Unit 3: Compensation · 9 hours

     Define compensation.. Explain the effects of economic, social, and ethical factors on salaries and wages.. Identify reasons why some employers pay higher wages.. Undertake a survey to gather facts for establishing a pay scale..

6. Week 6Module Two

   • Unit 4: Fringe benefits · 8 hours

     Define fringe benefits.. Identify a number of fringe benefits.. Recognize the philosophy and principles of fringe benefit programmes..

   • Unit 5: Employee performance appraisal · 7 hours

     Define the concept of employee appraisal.. List the reasons for which appraisals are done.. Recognize an appraisal form.. Construct a rating scales for employee appraisal.. Conduct an appraisal interview..

7. Week 7Module Three

   • Unit 1: Training · 9 hours

     Identify what training is.. Define training.. Identify training needs.. Device training plans.. Conduct training needs surveys..

8. Week 8Module Three

   • Unit 2: Management Development · 8 hours

     Define management development.. Identify management knowledge and skill.. List and explain various methods used in management development..

   • Unit 3: Motivation Theories · 7 hours

     State Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management Theory.. List out the various components of scientific management.. Explain each component of scientific management theory..

9. Week 9Module Three

   • Unit 4: Employee/Industrial Relations · 8 hours

     Define a trade or a labour union.. Trace the origin and evolution of trade/labour unions in Nigeria.. List the functions of trade unions..

   • Unit 5: Collective bargaining · 7 hours

     Define collective bargaining.. Identify the processes of collective bargaining.. Identify and be able to apply the strategy of bargaining.. Recognize and be able to apply the various union bargaining pressures..

10. Week 10Module Four

    • Unit 1: Ethics in public service · 9 hours

      Define ethics.. Identify its significance in organizations.. List attitudes which can be termed as good conduct..

11. Week 11Module Four

    • Unit 2: Decision-Making · 8 hours

      Define decision-making.. Locate where decision-making capacity can be enlarged.. List steps in the decision-making process.. Recognize how decision-making ability can be improved..

    • Unit 3: Conflict management · 7 hours

      Define conflict.. List a number of conflict situations.. Manage conflicting situation to prevent getting worse.. Resolve conflicts..

12. Week 12Module Four

    • Unit 4: Leadership: Study and theories · 8 hours

      Define leadership.. Identify and explain a number of theories of leadership..

    • Unit 5: Leadership: From the perspective of the subordinate · 7 hours

      Re- define leadership.. Recognize various ranges of leadership behaviour.. Choose from the various styles of leadership which one you will need for which situation..

13. Week 13Module Five

    • Unit 1: Disciplinary action · 9 hours

      Define disciplinary action.. Identify various types of methods/processes employed in disciplinary action.. Recognize different forms of indiscipline leading to disciplinary action.. Relate an offence to any appropriate disciplinary action..

    • Unit 2: Separation - 1 (Tenure & Turnover) · 8 hours

      Define tenure and turnover.. Identify various types of tenure.. List various reasons and types of turnover.. Recognize the methods of controlling turnover..