Human Resource Management Certificate Program

March 4 - April 15, 2010

Over seven weeks, the Human Resource Management Certificate Program provides a practical foundation to manage an organizations most valuable resource, the human resources. Specially designed for new entrants in the HR field, HR specialists who wish to expand or update their HR knowledge, general administrators responsible for HR, and those considering a career in human resources.

What You Will Gain:

• Human Resources Strategic Context
  The past several years have seen an evolution of the HR function within organizations working together with general managers toward a business relationship that contributes to the organization's bottom line and fulfills strategic goals. HR managers are thus adapting to a role of a proactive business partnership, one who takes on planning strategic, tactical, and transformational responsibilities. Such an evolution presents challenges and opportunities to HR professionals. On the one hand, they may be challenged to acquire new skills, competencies, and behavioral characteristics; on the other, they have the opportunity to increase significantly the scope of their responsibilities and their value within the organization. This session explores the comprehensive requirements of the HR professional as a business partner.

• Talent Management
  Talent Management (TM) has emerged as a very important process for managing the organization's human resources. TM is an integrated approach to the staffing process. TM connects workforce planning, needs assessment, targeted recruiting, hiring to meet needs, targeted assignments, and developmental opportunities into a single, smooth, business process. The result is a much improved organizational staffing process.

• Employment Law - what every HR professional needs to know
  This session will discuss in a practical, down-to-earth manner the various laws and regulations which govern the employment relationship, such as those impacting discrimination, workplace harassment, wages and leave entitlement. Statutes to be addressed include Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Florida Civil Rights Act, among others.
  

• Elements of an Effective Performance Management System
  Addresses why employees perform correctly or don't in organizations, how to get them to perform the way you want them to perform and what to do when they don't! Topics include: Establishing a performance management program, appraising performance effectively and legally, progressive discipline, positive direction and making discharge/salvage decisions.

• Training & Development
  Will address how to ensure that training solves performance problems, compute the cost of these solutions and evaluate their effectiveness. Topics include: identifying performance deficiencies, separating deficiencies of knowledge from deficiencies of execution, identifying and evaluating appropriate training, and managing change and transition in the organization.

• Compensation and Benefits
  Provides an overview of the significant laws that impact the design and implementation of a pay and benefits plan. This will include a discussion of the benefits that are required to be provided by law, as well as, the typical ones provided by employers. The session will also address the need to design the pay and benefits plan to support the company's financial and strategic goals.

• How Human Resource Creates Value
  The crucial question for HR programs and services in a competitive business environment is whether they add value or just add expenses. This session will focus on defining the kinds of value HR creates, how HR creates value in your organization, measuring how much value is created, and communicating the value of HR to others in the organization.

This program has been approved for 19.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

ON-SITE TRAINING
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