Course Outline
Course Outline
COURSE OUTLINE
CHAPTER ONE: AN OVER VIEW
1.1. Meaning and Nature of Human Resources Management
1.2. Importance of HRM function
1.3. Purpose and Objectives of HRM
1.4. Objectives of HRM at different levels
1.5. The Major Functions/Activities of HRM
1.6. Human Resource Policies, Procedures and Programs
1.7. Evolution and Development of Human resource Management
1.8. Human Resource management objectives
CHAPTER TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTS
2.1. The external environment
2.2. The internal environment
2.3. Human resource management model
CHAPTER THREE: JOB ANALYSIS & HR PLANNING
3.1. Meaning and definition of job analysis
3.2. Steps in job analysis
3.3. Methods of collecting job analysis information
3.4. Importance of job analysis information
3.5. Potential problems with job analysis
3.6. Meaning and definition of Human resource planning
3.7. Importance of human resource planning
3.8. Steps[procedures] in human resource planning
3.9. Factors affecting human resource planning
CHAPTER FOUR: RECRUITMENT & SELECTION
4.1. Employee Recruiting
4.1.1. Features of recruitment
4.1.2. Purpose of recruitment
4.1.3. Factors governing recruitment
4.1.4. Sources and methods of recruitment
4.2. Employee Selection
4.2.1. Selection criteria
4.2.2. The selection process
4.2.3. Factors governing selection
4.3. Orientation [induction]
4.3.1. Purpose of orientation
4.3.2. Levels of orientation
CHAPTER FIVE: TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
5.1. Objectives of training and development
5.2. Process of training and development
5.3. Training methods
5.4. Career development
CHAPTER SIX - PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
6.1. Purpose of performance appraisal
6.2. Performance appraisal steps
6.3. Problems associated with performance appraisals
6.4. Performance appraisals methods
CHAPTER SEVEN - COMPENSATION
7.1. Importance of compensation
7.2. Factors affecting compensation
7.3. Employee benefits and service
7.4. Comparable worth controversy [Reading assignment]
CHAPTER EIGHT - INTEGRATION AND MAINTAINACE
8.1. Employee discipline 8.3. Collective bargaining
8.2. Labor relation 8.4. Grievance handling
CHAPTER NINE - PROMOTIONS TRANSFERS AND SEPARATION
9.1. Purpose of transfer 9.4. Types of transfer
9.2. Types of promotion 9.5. Types of separation
9.3. Reason for transfer
CHAPTER TEN - SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN WORK PLACE, E- HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT & EMPOWEREMENT
10.1. Equal employment opportunity
10.2. Types of sexual harassment in work place
10.3. Prevalence of sexual harassment
10.4. Effects of sexual harassment
10.5. Remedies
10.6. Tips on E- Human resource management
10.7. Workforce Diversity management
10.8. HIV and Workplace
10.9. Workforce Empowerment
Reference:
John. M. Ivancevich, Human Resource Management, 7th ed., 1998
Dessler : Human Resource Management , 9th ed.1998
Edwin B. Personnel Management,1998
Lioyd.L.Bayers and Leslie W.Rue: Human Resource Management,1997
Margaret Foot Caroline Hook : Introducing Human Resource Management 1998
Wendell L. French: Human Resource Management,1996
Shaun Tyson and Alford york, An introduction to Human resource Management 1 st ed, 2001