Certificate in Human Resource Management

An effective human resource management strategy is a valuable asset to any company, but those running small businesses often cannot justify designating a full-time HR professional to manage employee relations, compensation, policy-making, performance management, and employee appraisals.

This suite of courses will teach you the basics of managing the benefits and policies that support an effective staff. In this suite of courses, you will discover the answers to these and other important questions. Each 3 to 5 hour, self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies, and self-assessments that will engage you and structure your learning about human resource management.

Upon successful completion, you can download a printable certificate of completion for this online course suite. This certificate has no textbooks or prerequisites.

Learner Outcomes

After successfully completing this program, students will be able to:

• Differentiate between compensation systems

• Distinguish between legally mandated and discretionary benefits

• Identify various techniques for forecasting workforce needs

• Define approaches to job design and redesign

• Describe methods of evaluating prospective employees

• Explain the value of a performance management system

• Consider the advantages and disadvantages of different performance appraisal methods

• Apply organizational development practices alongside individual performance management

• Explain significant employment and anti-discrimination laws

• Recognize different forms of harassment and discrimination

• Describe the five stages in the career life cycle

• Evaluate employee skill gaps as part of a training needs analysis

• Recognize and identify the key roles and responsibilities of the human resource management function

• Recognize and define human resources terms

• List and identify the five areas of HRM Planning

• Identify different types of data that are useful for human resource managers

• Gain awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of certain data types and collection methods

• Reflect on some of the threats of big data, including threats to confidentiality and privacy as well as the potential for discrimination