Managing Human Resources for Organisation Effectiveness

Course Details

All organisations have people and these people constitute the human resources. Regardless of the size of an organisation or the extent of its resources, the organisations survives and thrives because of the capabilities and performance of its people. The activities involved in maximising those capbilities and performance are necessary regardless of whether the organisations refer to them as Human Resource Management, Human Resources, or no formal name for those activities at all.

Human Resource functions can be used as pillars for creating national and sub-regional economic and social growth. The approach is based on the premise that organisational human resource policies can, if properly articulated,provide a direct and economicallysignificant contribution to organisational performance. The focus, therefore, lies in improving organisational performance in order to contribute to national economic growth

Objectives:

The main objective of the course is to examine the role efficient human resource management can play in organisational effectiveness and economic development. Specifically, the course  prepare participants to appreciate the need for change management, organisational culture as well as gender issues at work place. Also, the course will reel out strategic and policy issues in human resource management and their linkages to organisational and  national economic development.

Course outline:

The following are some of the broad  themes to be covered at the course :

• Evolution and overview of human resource management
• Strategic and policy issues in human resource management
• Development and appreciation of human resource value prposition to firms in the 21st century
• Organisational Culture
• Change management and employee effectiveness
• Competencybased interview methods
• Learning needs analysis
• Managing performance and rewards for organisationaal success.
• Manpower planning
• Recruitment,resourcing and talent mangement; a key to succession and career planning
• Staff training and development
• Effective communication in human resource management
• Organisational ethics