Human Resource Management course in London, UK

Human Resource Management course agenda:

Human Resource Management, Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility

• The meaning of human resource management
• Business and corporate strategies
• Stakeholders and corporate responsibility

High-Commitment HRM Policy and Practice

• An outline of high-commitment HR policies and practices
• Bundles of human resource practices
• Is high-commitment HRM universally applicable?

Aligning Human Resource Management with Organisational Goals

• Contingency theory and best fit
• ‘Best fit’ HRM
• Limitations of best-fit / contingency models
• Resource-based view of HRM and the ‘architecture’
• Applying RBV and architecture models to HRM

The Role of the HR function in Changing Times

• The development of HR as a specialist function
• Analysing the role of the HR function
• New forms of delivery: outsourcing, shared service centres and E-HRM
• Assessing the contribution of the HR function

Line Managers, Leadership and HRM

• Increasing the line management responsibility for HRM
• Problems with devolving HRM to line managers
• Developing line managers to provide effective HRM
• Leadership

Resourcing and Talent Management

• Human resource planning, turnover and retention
• Talent management
• Defining jobs and creating person specifications
• Recruitment methods
• Differing paradigms of selection

Performance Management

• Performance management systems
• Induction and employee socialisation
• Performance review
• Reinforcing performance standards

Learning and Knowledge Development

• The process of learning
• The training cycle
• A review of some contemporary L&D interventions
• Managing knowledge

Employee Involvement and Participation: Creating Engagement and Voice in the Workplace

• The meaning of employee involvement and participation
• From direct EIP to employee engagement
• Representative participation
• The links between informal and formal EIP
• Embedding EIP at work

Reward Management

• Reward management in context
• Types of payment scheme
• Job evaluation
• Equal value considerations
• Non-pay benefits as part of the package

This Human Resource Management course is suitable for:

• HR managers and executives
• Heads of HR functions
• HR business partners and advisors
• HR professionals and practitioners
• Senior HR officers and assistants who wish to understand and contribute to the development and implementation of HRM within their organisations.
• Small-business owners and managers responsible for the people function within their organisations.

Upon completion of this Human Resource Management course, you will be able to understand:

• The multiple meanings of HRM, the relationship between strategy and HRM, and the value of seeing strategy in terms of multiple stakeholders.
• The principal theoretical frameworks used in HRM – the universalist high-commitment paradigm, the contingency best-fit approach and the resource-based view of the firm.
• The distinctive roles played by HR professionals and line managers, as well as the alternative forms of HR service delivery through external consultants and shared service operations.
• The concept of leadership – whether it is different from management or not.
• All components of HRM.
• A range of contemporary issues, such as talent management, recent views on knowledge development, the push for employee engagement, and multiple ways in which employees can be rewarded at work.