Strategic Human Resource Management Short Term Course South Africa

Strategic Human Resource Management

Pretoria: 09 – 13 December 2024

Dubai: 09 – 13 December 2024

Overview

This course responds to the increasingly competitive and dynamic environment within which human resources are managed and business is conducted. It provides participants with the understanding, knowledge, and skills to make strategic human resource management decisions. The course covers pressing challenges for HR managers including their growing involvement in formulating, integrating and implementing strategies in organisations, thus moving towards a ‘holistic’ approach.

The course links actual HR practices (core HRM) and three components of strategic management: institutional strategy, business strategy, and HR strategy. It emphasises practical activities such as assessment of the global economic environment, organizational culture, analysis of competencies and the implementation of human resource decisions.

Participants conduct a thorough strategic evaluation of real-life human resource management issues to strengthen skills on how to effectively manage human resources in a way that contributes to improved performance, productivity, and morale.

This course is suitable for human resources managers/officials and senior professionals, policy analysts, senior personnel, team leaders, government officials, employers, and anybody who seeks to broaden their knowledge and improve their skills in the key functions of HRM

The course helps participants:

  • Take a strategic approach to human resource management.
  • Assess the global human resources environment in which organisations operate.
  • Forecast the human resource needs of the organisation or department.
  • Do a job analysis and competency audit of the organisation and/or department.
  • Understand the main cycles in human resources and the critical steps of each
  • Comprehend vital Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which should be constantly monitored in HR
  • Assess employee morale and determine a formula for calculating it objectively
  • Differentiate between types of turnover and determine how each should be calculated
  • Describe the main types of planning and budgeting approaches and how and when to use each
  • Manage and motivate employees using the basic principles of strategic human resource management