One way or another, all employees are managed. But approaches to managing employees varying from employee-to-employee, job-to-job, manager-to-manager, organization-to-organization, and country-to-country. This course provides a foundation for developing your own approach to skillfully managing employees by illustrating alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies, introducing the importance of the legal context, and thinking about what motivates employees. This will then give you the factual and conceptual basis for developing specific, critical HRM skills in subsequent courses on hiring employees, managing performance, and rewarding employees. Don't know anything about HRM? That's OK! Leave this course with a new-found understanding of the range of options available for managing employees, a grasp of what makes workers tick, and the readiness to develop your own HRM skills.
Preparing to Manage Human Resources
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Preparing to Manage Human Resources
This course is part of Human Resource Management: HR for People Managers Specialization
Instructor: John W. Budd
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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
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- Category: Resource Management
- Category: Economics
- Category: Human Resources Management and Planning
- Category: Compensation Management
- Category: Employee Performance Management
- Category: Human Resource Policies
- Category: Employee Engagement
- Category: Human Resource Strategy
- Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Category: Team Motivation
- Category: Human Resources
- Category: People Management
- Category: Labor Law
- Category: Law, Regulation, and Compliance
- Category: Compensation and Benefits
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