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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SKILLS COURSES 2010

COURSE
DURATION
FREQUENCY
Strategic Human Resource Planning
2 weeks
Twice a year
Human Resources Management Skills
2 weeks
Twice a year
Training of Trainers
3 weeks
Twice a year
Performance Management and Open Appraisal System
1 week
Twice a year
Job Evaluation and Grading
1 week
Once a year
Labour Relations
1 week
Once a year
Records Management
1 week
Twice a year

 

HR 101 HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Target Group:
Line managers, training and human resource managers in the public and private sectors.

Duration:
2 weeks

Course Objective: 
To assist participants in improving how to manage their human resources effectively and efficiently.
The course also enhances you to understand the personnel management function and the activities necessary for the efficient attainment of organisational goals and objectives.

Course Outline:

  • Defining roles and responsibilities of managers
  • Analysing jobs and writing job description
  • Planning human resource requirements (Manpower  Planning)
  • Recruiting, selecting and orienting employees
  • Conducting performance appraisals
  • Understanding labour/industrial relations and disciplining staff
  • Training and Development of Staff
  • Budgeting for human resources
  • Maintaining automated human resources Information systems.

Dates:

12 - 23 Apr 2010
18 - 29 Oct 2010

 

HR103  PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND OPEN APPRAISAL SYSTEM

Target Group:
Line managers, heads of departments and personnel managers in the private and public sectors who want to acquire job analysis and job description writing as well as understanding modern performance appraisal techniques.

Duration:
1 week

Course Objective:
Participants to this course will learn how to collect, analyze and organize job information into clear, accurate and up-to-date job description. They will also acquire skills to enhance their ability to appraise, develop and motivate employees for performance improvement.

Course Outline:

  • Designing, enlarging and enriching jobs
  • Analysing jobs and collection of job information
  • Writing and up-dating job descriptions
  • Understanding open and closed performance appraisal systems
  • Setting performance targets/objectives
  • Conducting regular performance reviews
  • Completing performance appraisal forms
  • Handling annual interviews to maximize motivation for performance improvement

Dates:

01 - 05 Feb 2010
01 - 05 Nov 2010

 

HR 102 STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Target Group:
Managers in all sectors   involved in human resource planning requirements in support of organizational goals.

Duration:
2 weeks

Course Objective:
This course will teach participants how to develop and implement human resource planning policies and procedures in line with their organisation’s goal and objectives.

Course Outline:

  • Developing inventories of higher level and skilled human resource
  • Projecting human resource supply.
  • Methodologies for forecasting human resource by occupation and industry.
  • Projecting human resource demand
  • Source of Information and Data on Human Resource.
  • Estimating labour force and human resource flows
  • Maintaining automated human resource information systems.

Date:

22 Feb - 5 Mar 2010
16 - 27 Aug 2010

 

HR 401 TRAINING OF TRAINERS

Target Group:
Human resource or personnel managers and officers, training managers or officers and indeed all those individuals directly involved in designing and conducting training courses in the public and private sectors.

Duration:
3 weeks

Course Objective:
This course is designed to increase the number of professional trainers in Malawi.  It provides a structured method for the design and development of training activities according to the system’s approach to training. 

Course Outline:

  • Training and Staff Development
  • The Training Policies and Practices
  • Techniques Used in Adult Education
  • Analysis of Training Needs
  • Analysis of Training Activities
  • Designing Training Activities
  • Selecting Instructions Methods and Tools
  • Conducting Classroom Instructions
  • Validating Training Activities

Dates:

29 Mar - 16 Apr 2010
06 - 24 Sept 2010

 

HR 104 JOB EVALUATION AND GRADING

Target Group:
Human Resource Managers/ Personnel and Administration Managers from the public, parastatal and the private sector.

Duration:
1 week

Course Objective:
The course aims at equipping participants with relevant knowledge and skills in the design as well as implementation of the Job Evaluation and Grading schemes.  It explores the most popular methods of job evaluation, highlighting their strengths and weakness, circumstances under which they are applicable, including the institutional arrangements that must be developed to sustain job evaluation efforts.

Course Outline:

  • An Overview of Job Evaluation
  • Job Description Writing
  • Job Evaluation Methods and Process
  • Job Evaluation and Salary Structure
  • Institutional Arrangements for the Design and Implementation of a Job Evaluation and Grading Schemes

Date: 

28 Jun - 2 Jul 2010

HR 105 LABOUR RELATIONS

Target Groups:
Human Resource Managers, Personnel Managers, Line Managers, Senior Labour Officials, Trade Union Leaders and Supervisors  involved in managing and supervising others.

Duration:
2 weeks

Course Objective:
This course is designed on the premise that any organisation employing over 20 employees will be faced with problems relating to labour relations, discipline and grievances.  Therefore this course will assist managers in their effort to promote harmonious relationships between management and staff at work.  It will expose managers to modern and practical skills and techniques on how to maintain industrial peace for increased efficiency, effectiveness and worker productivity.

Course Outline:

  • Labour/Industrial Relations at work
  • Collective Bargaining, Collective Agreements and Terms and Conditions of Service
  • Mediation, Conciliation and Negotiating Skills in Complaints, Disputes and Grievances
  • Staff discipline and grievance handling procedures
  • Rights, Responsibilities, Obligations of Both the Employer and Employees and their Representatives
  • Trade Unions and Consultative Machinery
  • Enforcement of Labour Laws

Dates:

26 - 30 Jul 2010

 

HR 108 RECORDS MANAGEMENT

Target Group
All personnel responsible for managing records in NGOs, private and public sectors.

Duration:
1 week

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will achieve the following:

  • Understand the records management process
  • Understand the role of computers in records management
  • Appreciate the electronic communication as records

Course Outline

  • Introduction to records management
  • Records Life cycle
  • Database management system
  • Role of computers and Management of the Registry

Date: 

3 - 7 May 2010
22 - 26 Nov 2010