This course will develop the essential skills, knowledge and methodologies to successfully measure, assess and monitor the process of manpower planning and personnel management. This is very interactive course covering range of approaches related to job structuring and design focused on better recruitment and retention strategies for keeping talent well into the future. Students will be exposed to a number of cutting-edge techniques designed to fit a variety of situations. As this will be a course of numerous concepts to consider, the course will allow the students to testify their own individual situations so that they feel the confidence to implement effective manpower planning and strategies as well.
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This course provides knowledge of the current issues surrounding training and development and an understanding of the major elements of training and development including: learning theories needs analysis, program design, training methods, and how to evaluate the development initiatives.
This course focuses on an advanced workplace perspective for developing and evaluating compensation policies and practices. Managing the various forms of compensation programmers is complex and issues concerning fairness and effectiveness of pay plans, as they affect working performances. Professionals, who design, implement and evaluate compensation programmers are often required to balance conflicting variables. These variables include the financial interests of employees, external competition for talented employees, internal pressures for cost containment, executive roles in shaping organizational cultures, ethical considerations, the role of government, and the influence of long-range business plans. Throughout the semester the impact of these variables on compensation management are covered in detail.