NEW PROFESSIONAL (6-WEEK) EVENING COURSE
(All six week courses cost £560 + VAT and are eligible for 'Train to Gain' Funding)!
Human Resources Management
Commences Tuesday 17th November 2009
(6.15pm to 9.30pm for 6 Tuesdays)
This programme is designed to develop practical skills across a range of personnel activities and to ensure that participants have an understanding of modern HR theory and practice. It is aimed at people who have been given, or who are about to be given, responsibility for areas of HRM in their own organisations. It is also suitable for other that wish to progress into a career in HRM.
Course Aims & Objective
The course provides an overview of the main HRM theories in order to provide a conceptual and practical basis for student learning. It develops on that learning by examining the main techniques involved in managing Human Resources. It also encourages students to draw on knowledge from their own experience to develop a clear understanding and practical working knowledge of Human Resource Management.
On successful completion of the course students will be able to understand the benefits of effective human resource strategies. They will have a theoretical framework for the development and evaluation of HRM concepts and principles and a thorough familiarity with the operational details of HRM.
Course Structure
Human Resource Management commences in 17th November 2009 and runs over 6 week period. These modular courses are delivered 1 evening per week on Tuesday evening from 6.30-9.30p.m.
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Individuals and Groups:
Individual differences, perceptions, communications, motivation, industrial psychology, behavioural theories, research studies, groups, group dynamics, personal and group goals.
Manpower Planning:
Recruitment and selection, interviewing, selection testing, validation of testing procedures, training, systems approach to training, on-job –v- off-job, induction programmes, personnel records, use of computers.
Job Analysis:
Job description, job specification, person specification, job rotation, job enlargement, job enrichment, job evaluation.
Development of a Human Relations Approach:
Role of Personnel Department, nurturing human assets in a business, career development, counselling, participating in decision making, supportive management styles.
Industrial Relations:
The role of the Trade Union, moves toward industrial democracy, strikes, causes, effect and avoidance.
Core Text: Management & Organisational Behaviour – L Mullins (Pitman)
Alternative Texts and Further Reading: Human Resource Management: Perspectives & Issues – G Ferris & K Rowland (Allyn & Bacon) / Human Resource Planning – John Bramham (IPM) / Personnel Management – S Tyson & A York (Heinemann) / Management & Motivation – Vroom & Deci (Penguin) / People in Organisations – P Armstrong & C Dawson (Elm)
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