Management Programs

This workshop explores some of the primary disciplines in the human resources function. While obtaining exposure to a wide variety of topics - and an equally wide slate of experts who will be facilitating discussion of those topics - you will collaborate with seasoned professionals, and with each other, as you gain insight, acquire knowledge, and develop skills.

Key Topics

• The evolving role of the HR professional
• The HR professional as a strategic organizational partner
• Transactional vs. transformational
• Staffing
• The staffing continuum: how best to partner with organizational clients through every step of the process
• Basics of learning and development
• Roles
• Fundamental learning principles
• Learning-centered program outcomes
• Learning styles
• Key elements of performance management
• Goal setting
• Feedback and documentation
• Performance appraisal
• Employee development
• Components and importance of compensation
• Job analysis
• Job evaluation
• Internal and external equity
• Link between pay and performance
• Benefits: more than completing forms
• Benefits strategy
• Frequently utilized types
• Potential concerns around benefits costs
• Part of the total compensation package
• Ethical considerations and concerns for HR professionals
• What is meant by "business ethics"
• How and where ethics weave through day-to-day HR activities
• Addressing ethical dilemmas through case studies
• Benefits and consequences of behaving ethically
• Diversity: a critical dimension
• Fundamental concepts
• How it affects the role of HR

Special Features

HR panel: Interact on several levels with a group of seasoned HR professionals. First, panelists will share relevant insights about their backgrounds, experience, and valuable lessons learned pertaining to the human resources profession. Small groups of participants will then collaborate on and develop solutions to challenging case studies and present those recommendations to other workshop participants and to the panel. The panelists will lead a discussion and share additional insights about each case study presentation, linking their own experiences to each case study. Finally, you will be invited to ask open-ended questions to the panel. Questions can relate back to issues that emerged at other points in the workshop or to any other topic of interest.

Who Will Benefit

HR professionals/practitioners with less than two years of experience; individuals who currently specialize in one HR discipline and who are interested in learning about other disciplines; individuals who do not currently work in the field but are interested in exploring HR as a possible profession.

Instructors

Susan F. Alevas, Lolita Chandler, John E. Colón, Cathy Lee Gibson, Ronald M. Katz, Nancy Lampen, Nancy Lynch, J. Kirk Menard

Your instructors will be selected from these faculty members.