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.
This course is part of the Human Resource Management: HR for People Managers Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Alternative Approaches to Managing Human Resources
What Makes Employees Work? Money, Of Course!
What Makes Employees Work Revisited...Non-Monetary Motivations
The People Manager as Part of a Complex System
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- 5 stars83.07%
- 4 stars14.46%
- 3 stars1.67%
- 2 stars0.31%
- 1 star0.47%
TOP REVIEWS FROM PREPARING TO MANAGE HUMAN RESOURCES
This course is an excellent for the beginner or new to Human Resource Management. It gives alot of information and teaches a number of concepts that actually will prove to beneficial in future.
Great course for new managers. Provides framework for first decisions as a new leader. Good refresher for existing managers or individuals looking to transition into HR from a leadership role.
I thoroughly enjoyed this class. It is a great introduction to the HR world. It kept me interested all the way through. It made me want to take the rest of this HR series to get the certification.
This course had help me in identifying and enhance the skills that I need to managing employees. i love how the professor (Prof. John Budd) provides clear explanation of each lesson and as a whole!
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