Human Resource Management

The course content addresses the following topics:

• Introduction to HR: The concept of the organisation and the vital role of intellectual capital in competitive advantage.
• Strategic human resource management.
• Structuring the organisation, the flow of work and individual jobs.
• Human resource planning, recruitment and selection.
• Managing human resources across global and multicultural boundaries.
• Retaining key employees in South African organisations and why they leave.
• Employee Development and understanding careers in the modern world.
• Strategically managing the HR function - crafting maximum productivity workplaces
• The origin definition and history of industrial relations in South Africa.
• Approaches to labour relations. The tripartite relationship. The context of LR in South Africa. Trade union theory.
• Management.
• The government.
• Flexibility in the labour market.