Cipd Foundation Certificate In Human Resource Practice

Course details

CIPD Foundation Certificate in Human Resource Practice, Key Facts:

• CIPD Associate Membership (Assoc CIPD) for successful graduates of the programme
• Next course commencing October 2015
• Provides specialist HRM knowledge and skills for HR Professionals and Managers / Supervisors with HR responsibilities
• Blended learning approach includes attendance at six workshop units over eight months, practical skills development, action learning sets and assignments (no examinations)
• Inpidual tutor assigned to each student to support them as they progress through the programme

Who Should Attend?

This Certificate is ideally suited to:

• Staff who have recently moved into the field of Human Resource Management
• Line Managers and Supervisors to whom HRM responsibility has been devolved
• Staff eager to update their HRM knowledge and skills
• Those wishing to pursue a career in Human Resource Management
• Those wishing to pursue CIPD Membership.

Objectives

The overall objective of this certificate programme is to help participants develop as effective HRM practitioners and utilise the key skills required in this specialist area. At the end of the programme participants will have:

• A greater awareness of the organisational context of HRM
• An understanding of the key issues that impact on HRM
• Practiced and developed, under expert guidance, a range of skills relevant to HRM
• Increased their knowledge of the legal, economic, environmental, social, technological and labour related developments that impact on the HRM field

Content

This Certificate programme covers the following areas:

• Organisational Context of the HRM Function
• Key Personal Skills/Competencies for HRM Practitioners
• HR Role and Responsibilities of Line Managers
• Models of HRM in the Civil, Public, Private and Not for Profit Sectors
• Recording, Analysing and Utilising Information
• Performance Development and Reward Management
• Human Resource Planning
• Recruitment & Selection Policies and Procedures & Skills in Recruitment and Selection Interviewing
• The Public Appointments Service – its role and services
• Induction and Probation
• Employee Relations
• Employment Law