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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. What does an employer need to know about anti-discrimination regulations? What are the key aspects of pay policies? How can employers avoid the traps of the employee selection process? 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.
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Upon successful completion, you can download a printable certificate of completion for this online course suite. The course has no textbooks or prerequisites.
Courses include:
- Compensation
- Employee Selection
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Introduction to Human Resource Management
- Performance Management
- Talent Management and Career Development
These courses are self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 180 days
CEUs: 3 | HRCI Credits: 14
Level: Introductory
Estimated time to complete: 12-24 hours
Cost: $399
Compensation
In this course, you will consider the many issues surrounding the key aspects of pay policy: legal requirements, pay equity within an organization, competitive pay within the relevant industry, how and when to grant raises, and different ways payment can be structured.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Comply with relevant state and federal "wage and hour" laws
- Determine the competitive pay level for a particular position in a particular geographic location
- Discuss and administer a variety of pay structures
- Effectively confront issues of pay equity within an organization
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days
CEUs: .5 | HRCI Credits: 3.5
Level: Introductory
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
Cost: $79
Employee Selection
In this course, you will learn about the process of selecting the best candidate from a large, diverse pool of high-quality applicants. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management, the course discusses how to conduct an effective job interview, asking questions that elicit relevant information and avoiding questions that might be seen as discriminatory. You will also consider how to discover more about a candidate through the use of reference checks, background checks, and testing.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Conduct an effective job interview
- Analyze a candidate pool and identify the most qualified candidate given a job description and requirements
- Decide what additional tests – if any -- should be administered to candidates for a specific job
- Deal productively and sensitively with internal candidates for a job opening
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days
CEUs: .5 | HRCI Credits: 3
Level: Introductory
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
Cost: $79
Equal Employment Opportunity
In this course you will learn about many of the major employment laws, Equal Opportunity issues, and the anti-discriminatory regulations employers must be aware of in hiring, promoting, and firing employees.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Explain the major employment and anti-discrimination laws
- Understand the basic steps to take in dealing with discrimination complaints
- Explain and assess issues around alternative work arrangements
- Outline ways to develop and maintain a diverse work-force
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days
CEUs: .5 | HRCI Credits: 2.5
Level: Introductory
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
Cost: $79
Introduction to Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management includes the vital tasks of recruiting, screening, interviewing, training, appraising, disciplining, rewarding, and developing the employee - both for business and Nonprofit enterprises.
Since all managers (especially line managers) have HR responsibilities, it is important that they have an understanding of the key concepts of this increasingly important function, especially since many decisions they make about employees have possible legal ramifications.
The course draws on material from Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Recognize and identify the key roles and responsibilities of the human resource management function
- Assess your attitude and your organization's attitude toward human resource management
- Recognize and define HRM's strategic contribution to an organization
- Recognize and define human resources terms
- Differentiate between the day-to-day functions of the HR department and the broader concepts of human resource management
- Recognize the relationship and partnership that exist between an organization's HR Department and its line managers and identify the key responsibilities of each
- Differentiate between the structure and reporting relationships of a centralized and decentralized human resources function
- List and identify the five areas of HRM Planning
- List the three roles that an HR department must fulfill to maintain the ethical standards of an organization
- Identify the key global issues and business practices that impact HRM
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days
CEUs: .5
Level: Introductory
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
Cost: $79
Performance Management
This course considers the different elements of performance management. In its broadest sense, "performance management" is what every good manager does every day: Makes sure employees know what they need to do to achieve the organization's goals, checks to make sure the employees are doing those things, praises employees for doing the right things, and uses constructive criticism when that is not the case. A formal performance management system simply makes sure all those management tasks get done consistently across an organization.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Explain the value of a performance management system
- Discuss the pros and cons of various types of performance management systems
- Conduct a performance management interview
- Design a performance improvement plan
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days
CEUs: .5 | HRCI Credits: 3
Level: Introductory
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
Cost: $79
Talent Management & Career Development
Drawing on material from Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Human Resource Management, this course covers the challenges and issues that organizations face in developing and retaining their employees.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Understand and effectively communicate the value of a career development program
- Describe the five stages in the career lifecycle (Beginning, Developing, Mid-Career, Mastery and Maintenance, Retirement), and the needs an employee has at each stage of the cycle
- Explain why career management has become important to employers and employees
- Outline the tools for career development (training, education, job rotation, transfers, overseas assignments, mentoring, networking, volunteer work, formal career planning)
- Understand the issues HR departments face with career management
This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days
CEUs: .5 | HRCI Credits: 2
Level: Introductory
Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours
Cost: $79
