Individuals enter human resource roles from numerous avenues. An understanding of the essential elements comprising the function is needed in order to support an organization's business strategies by aligning policies, practices and procedures within HR best practice recommendations and compliance requirements.
This course provides an overview of HR management, an introduction into the key functions and activities that comprise it, and the platform of knowledge necessary to assume HR responsibilities.
An overview of key HR functions will be provided, including:
- Employment laws and regulations
- Strategic HR planning
- Job analysis
- Staffing
- Compensation: pay and benefits
- Performance management systems
- Training and development
- Employee relations
- Union relations and collective bargaining
- Health, safety and security
- Human resources recordkeeping.
All participants receive a textbook and a manual of information, exercises and handouts.
Who Should Attend
HR and administrative professionals who have recently assumed a human resource role as well as HR specialists looking to broaden their understanding of other HR functions.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the functions that comprise human resources
- Identify and explain activities that are commonly found to exist within each HR function
- Learn how HR and and managers and supervisors partner for organizational success
- Gain a more comprehensive understanding of HR and its value to an organization
