Course overview
This course examines how an organisation can maximise its returns from its workforce, and employees can maximise their returns from their work. It involves understanding all aspects of the management of people at work, including: planning, job analysis, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, remuneration and benefits, career development, and dealing with redundancies and retirement. The course will consider these issues as well as the implications of emerging organisational challenges for human resource management practices. These challenges include: the increasing use of contract staff and outsourcing; harnessing and sustaining organisational commitment; developing organisational cultures that are responsive to change; diversity in the workplace; harnessing innovation and knowledge management; globalisation of industry; and changing workplace practices.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of theory and practice associated with the management of people in organisations.
- Demonstrate competence in making an oral presentation to a broad and diverse audience on a topic relevant to organisational psychology and to the management of people in organisations.
- Demonstrate competence in interviewing a Human Resource Manager/senior manager on a topic relevant to organisational psychology and to the management of people in organisations.
- Demonstrate competence in program/intervention evaluation using interview data.
- Demonstrate competence in writing a research report of a professional and academic standard.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of inter-professional learning and practice.