Making Human Resource Practitioners Strategic Business Partners in the Organization

Program Overview:

People’s performance is one of the critical factors for organizational success. Professional human resource managers must lead their organizations towards greater success through the selection, retention, development and align their human-capital resource towards achieving corporate goals and profitability while ensuring minimal waste in resources.

For whom:

Human Resource Managers, Career Development Managers, Manpower Development Managers, and other line Managers with a responsibility for coordinating people’s efforts for production activities.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• appreciate HR’s role as a vital contributor to your organization’s success
• discover strategies to attract and retain top talent
• examine best practices for managing performance and creating compensation, training and benefit systems that drive bottom-line results
• identify and deal with potentially explosive issues with an eye to both legal requirements and the needs of your organization’s business
• analyze HR issues and develop action plans you can implement in your organization
• see how HR and Non-HR functions in organizations can create an effective synergy in the work environment.

Course outline:

Day 1: The Changing Role of HR

• A useful historical review of personnel/HR, HR’s role today and beyond
• HR as a strategic business partner, ·Organizational and external trends and challenges
• The HR Function
• Key functional HR tasks in any organization, ·How HR relates to non-HR functions, HR trends and challenges

Day 2: Legal Responsibilities

• Employment-related legislation, ·Legal trends and challenges
• The Employment Process
• Key issues of employment concern for HR practitioners
• Matching applicants with job requirements and responsibilities
• Information Processing
• Employee handbooks
  • Policies and procedures manuals
• Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)
• Compensation / Reward Management
  • Characteristics of an effective compensation system
• Job evaluations;
  • Salary surveys,
  • Traditional and dynamic compensation programs

Day 3: Performance Management

• Objectives of performance management systems
  • Coaching and counseling
  • Performance management components and guidelines,
  • Emerging performance management trends, ·
    • Maintaining a cost-effective emphasis
  • Organizational and Employee Development
    • Types of employee training, Career development,
    • Succession planning, Employee retention strategies,
    • Trends and challenges in organizational and

employee development

• Integrating H.R. practice into company business strategy
• Understanding your role in the organization and creating your action plan

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, and case studies will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.