Program duration: 48 hours
Program type: Short Course
This course introduces to the need for a professional human resource management approach including effective policy and procedures for job design and analysis, recruitment and selection, compensation, employee development and retention, workplace health, safety and human rights as well as employee/labour relations. Theory will be supported by discussions related to current Canadian practice and issues and learnings will be supported through practical assignments.
Course Prerequisites:
None
Delivery Methods:
Online| On-campus| Combined
Completion
Certificate
Student Progress:
Student will be assessed by daily attendance, assignments, and completion of in class activities.
Learning objectives
- Understand the considerations and concepts necessary to resolve human resource management challenges or issues.
- Manage the employment relationship with stakeholders including the employer and its human resource specialists, management and the employees.
- Work with the employer and its managers to identify the human resource needs of an organization or department.
- Takes steps to conduct a job analysis and subsequently a job description.
- Design and implement procedures for recruiting and selecting employees.
- Assess training needs and design implement a new employee orientation and training program.
- Understand the importance of workplace health and safety programs and the roles and requirements to implement and enforce such programs.
- Research ongoing best practice, business trends, opportunities and challenges for human resource management and HRM professionals.
Completion Requirements
To successfully complete this course, students must:
- Pass the final exam
- Attend a minimum of 80% of the scheduled classes
- Achieve a minimum overall score of 50%
Courses
Modules
The strategic role and growing professionalism of human resource management.
The changing legal emphasis: Compliance with legislation and impact on Canadian workplaces.
Designing and analyzing jobs including collecting job analysis information,verifying information, and writing job descriptions.
Human resource forecasting and planning, recruitment and selectionpractice.
Continuation:
Human resource forecasting and planning, recruitment and selection practice.
Recruitment, interviewing and selection practices
The learning organization, orientation, training and career development.
Continuation:
The learning organization, orientation, training and career development.
Performance management: Defining employee expectations, coaching and motivating, appraisal and discussions, and rewards/consequences.
Money and motivation: Determining pay rates, understanding pay equity, developing effective incentive plans and other employee benefits andservices.
Occupational health and safety in the workplace: accident awareness, legislation and employee wellness programs.
Employee engagement, communication and turnover management.
Labour relations: Workforce diversity, labour relation process, impact of unions.
Managing human resources in a global business (diversity, intercountry relations, managing global workers).
Review
Final Exam and wrap up.
Tuition and fees
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