Human Resources Management: A Practitioner's Approach

Development Of HRM. Personnel and HRM:
A Distinction.
The advent of welfare management.
The role of Row tree in industrial welfare development.
Welfare workers and recruitment and selection.
The development of professional personnel and human resource management.
Concerns of personnel management:
Recruitment and Selection
Workers’ Welfare and Benefits
Industrial Relations
Staff Appraisal
Training
The strategic significance of human resource management.
Concerns of human resource management:
Recruitment
Selection
Motivation
Human Resource Planning
Workforce Management Strategy
E.g. Workforce Flexibility
Flexible Working Strategy
The rationale for human resource planning (HRP).
The link between HRP and corporate planning.
The investigation and forecasting processes-understanding contextual influences.
Designing, implementing and reviewing the effectiveness of HRP.
Career management: career theory, career development, management and succession planning:
Management succession charts
Psychometric testing
The psychological contract and the impact on employee retention
Assessing the nature and causes of performance problems:
Managing poor performance
Managing absence
Dealing with harassment
The effective management of retirement, redundancy, dismissal and voluntary turnover.
Evaluating the mechanisms available for preventing or alleviating poor performance.
Staff turnover and negative and positive impact on the organisation;
Levels of Individual Commitment of potential and new recruits.
Moral Commitment.
Remunerative Commitment.
Calculative Commitment.
Recruitment and Selection as a Resourcing activity.
Training, Education, Development as facilities for new recruits.
The importance of Human resource Forecasts.
Methods of forecasting human Resource needs of the Organisation.
Strategic Operational Review’ (SOR) as prerequisite for Human resource forecasting.
The legal bases of Recruitment and Selection.
Importance of Human Resource Audit.
Conducting Human Resource Audit.
Periodic and Exit Interviews.
Systematic Recruitment and Selection Process.
Conducting Job Analysis.
Designing Job Description.
Designing Personnel Specification.
Market Targeting.
Designing and placing Advertisement.
Weighting and Using Candidate Assessment Form (CAF).
Conducting Interviews.
Non-conventional Personnel Selection.
The value of Staff Induction.
Organising an induction programme.
Running an induction Programme.
Short-listing candidates.
Conducting Interviews.
The value of and problems of e-recruitment.
The different types and levels of e-recruitment.
Conducting periodic interviews.
Conducting exit interviews.
Job design and the law.
Directing Or Leading.
The Concept of Motivation.
Theories of Motivation.
Content Theories & Some of Their Contributors.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Analysis of Maslow’s Claims.
McClelland's Studies.
Taylor: Money & Motivation.
Motivator-Hygiene Factor: Hertzberg’s Contribution.
Process Theories.
Equity Theory.
Goal-Setting Theory.
Expectancy Theory.
Equitable Reward Systems.
Reinforcement Theories.
Reinforcement Theory.
Motivation & Contingency Theory.
Designing An Effective Motivation Strategy.
The collectivist Vs the individualist perspective of motivation.
Common trends in Motivation theories.
Intrinsic and extrinsic values of motivation.
Motivation and worker behaviour.
The extent to which salary or wages inducement motivate workers.
Performance Related Pay (PRP).
Productivity Bonuses.
Efficiency Gains.
Profit Share.
The contingency approach to motivation.
Social differentiation in motivation.
Culture differentiation in motivation.
Wealth as a factor in motivation.
Class as an issue in Motivation.
Individual expectation and motivation.
Individual preferences as a motivating factor.

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