Essentials of Human Resource Management
Course Topics
Core content includes the following:
Module 1: Essentials of Human Resource Management
Overview: This module answers the question "What is human resource
management?” It explains the key HR roles and responsibilities and
details the planning process that is at the center of HR efforts.
Module 2: Employment Law in Your Workplace
Overview: Being cognizant of legal issues and ensuring compliance
throughout the organization is a significant responsibility. This module
explains the key pieces of legislation with which an organization must
comply.
Module 3: Effective Recruitment and Selection Techniques
Overview: Staffing an organization with qualified employees who can
assist it in meeting its strategic goals and objectives is important
to every manager in an organization. This module examines several important
aspects of staffing and focuses on how to make the best match between
the job and the person.
Module 4: Basics of Compensation
Overview: This module discusses key aspects of a total compensation
system, maps out the process for developing pay structures, and describes
the common types of pay increases.
Module 5: Orienting and Training Your Employees
Overview: This module discusses the purpose of employee orientation,
training and development. It provides a perspective on how adults learn
while considering several methods of training and gives you insight into
determining whether training is successful.
Module 6: Ensuring Quality Performance
Overview: Performance management encompasses processes used to identify,
encourage, measure, evaluate, improve, and reward employee performance.
Performance appraisal is the focus of this module. The module discusses
the purpose of performance appraisals and maps out the appraisal process.
It introduces you to various appraisal methods and lays out the steps
to follow when disciplinary action becomes necessary.