Fundamentals of Human Resources Management

Fundamentals of Human Resources Management

Program Objectives

1. Understand HR’s role as a vital contributor to your organization’s success
2. Discover strategies to attract and retain top talent
3. Examine best practices for managing performance and creating compensation, training and benefit systems that drive bottom-line results
4. Identify and deal with potentially explosive issues with an eye to both legal requirements and the needs of your business
5. Analyze HR issues and develop action plans you can implement in your organization
6. See how HR and non-HR functions in every organization can create an effective, complementary work environment

Course Outline:

The Changing Role of HR:

 A useful historical review of personnel/HR

 HR’s role in today’s workplace and beyond

HR as a strategic business partner

 Organizational and external trends and challenges

The HR Function:

•  Key functional HR tasks in any organization

•  HR functional responsibilities in small, midsized and large organizations

•  How HR relates to non-HR functions

•   HR, non-HR and shared employee-related functional activities

•   HR trends and challenges

Legal Responsibilities:

•  HR and managerial legal responsibilities

•  Employment-related federal legislation

•   Select legal terms and their impact

•   Questions and categories to avoid during the employment process

•  Workplace sexual harassment

•   Legal trends and challenges

The Employment Process:

•  Key issues of employment concern for HR practitioners

•  Matching applicants with job requirements and responsibilities

•  Selection criteria, questioning techniques and background research

• Orientation and assimilation

• Current employment-related trends and challenges

•  Critical learning points

Information Processing:

•  Employee handbooks

•  Policies and procedures manuals

•  Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)

• Information processing trends and challenges

•  Maximum HRIS utilization

Compensation:

• Characteristics of an effective compensation system

• Job evaluations

• Salary surveys

• Traditional and dynamic compensation programs

• Compensation trends and challenges

Performance Management:

• Objectives of performance management systems

•  Coaching and counseling

• Performance management components and guidelines

•  Respective roles among HR, managers and employees

• Performance management meetings: preparation, action plan, pitfalls

•  Varied approaches to performance management

•  Emerging performance management trends

Benefits:

•  Mandated and voluntary benefits

• Typical/popular offerings

•  Maintaining a cost-effective emphasis

• Current trends: rising costs, next generation, global impact,
  the next wave

Organizational and Employee Development:

•  Respective responsibilities

•  Types of employee training

•  Career development

•  Succession planning

•   Employee retention strategies

•  Trends and challenges in organizational and 
  employee development

?WHO SHOULD ATTEND

HR practitioners with less than three years’ experience; non-HR practitioners with HR responsibilities; more experienced HR professionals seeking a fast-paced review of the role of HR in today’s rapidly-evolving workplace.