Human Resource [HR] Management is the management of an organization’s employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a “soft” management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of organizational goals. Employees in any business are it’s most important assets. Like any assets employees need to be carefully managed and nurtured in order to perform at optimum levels. Topics covered include staff training, workplace conditions, work teams, positive discipline, handling grievances and complaints and much more.

Course Aims:

• Explain how perception, learning and prior experience influence human behaviour
• Identify and practice communication skills that will improve your ability to effectively receive and transmit messages in the workplace
• Explain factors that contribute to overall workplace conditions and can affect workplace culture
• Explain basic supervising practices for controlling business or department operations
• Identify essential processes in the recruitment and induction of employees
• Describe the key elements of planning and conducting effective staff training
• Describe how team processes can be used to improve performance and productivity
• Identify methods to establish and maintain discipline through positive means, such as reinforcement and increasing motivation
• Describe strategies for reducing dissatisfaction and handling dissatisfaction when it arises
• Explain the importance of monitoring workplace processes and performance, and how to report your observations.

Detailed Course Outline

This course is made up of a number of modules. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Human behaviour
2. Workplace communications
3. Workplace conditions
4. Controlling Operations
5. Recruitment and Induction
6. Staff training
7. Work teams
8. Positive Discipline
9. Grievances and Complaints
10. Monitoring and Reporting

When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.