HRM For Non-HR Managers

By Dr. Margie Parikh | BK School of Professional and Management Studies, Gujarat University

Learners enrolled: 1464

Welcome to one of the highly subscribed MOOCs on Swayam! We have designed this course for those who wish to develop or reskill themselves in the skills related to Human Resource Management (HRM), also known as People Management. After successfully completing this course, you will understand not only the employee life cycle, but the entire HRM cycle surrounding it. We will introduce to you the basic HRM functions and processes, whether you had a prior qualification in HRM or not. You will also be familiar with legal aspects of HRM and a basic proficiency in working out the obligations of your organization towards employees. In short, this course will prepare you to carry out basic HRM functions in your own unit or subunit.

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Core
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	01 Jan 2024
End Date :	30 Apr 2024
Enrollment Ends :	29 Feb 2024
Exam Date :	18 May 2024 IST
SHIFT :	1

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Human Resource Management (HRM): Meaning, importance, employee life cycle and HRM cycle surrounding it
The role of HRM in business and important functions
HR Planning (Manpower planning in previous times)
Developing Job-Descriptions, Job Specifications (1 of 2)
Developing Job-Descriptions, Job Specifications (2 of 2)
Recruitment:(1 of 2)
Recruitment (2 of 2)
Testing and Selection
Interviews
Employee orientation and on-boarding
Compensation-1: Pay and perquisites, Rewards and incentives
Compensation-2: Legal provisions related to compensation
Training and development
HR Policies
Discipline and Grievance management
Legal provisions for managing discipline and grievance
Performance management
Career paths and succession planning
Managing employee separation
Conducting employee surveys
Legal Compliance and HRM1: Trade Unions, Industrial Disputes, and Standing Orders
Legal Compliance and HRM:2
Employee retention-1: Turnover optimization and retention strategies
Employee retention-2: Engagement, involvement, commitment, and satisfaction
ICT and HRM: HR Information Systems, HR Analytics
HR Scorecard and organizational Effectiveness
HRM in merger and acquisitions
Knowledge management, learning organization and HRM
HR outsourcing
Directions for future development in HRM

Books and references

Armstrong M., (2006). A Handbook of Human Resources Management Practice 10th Edition, Kogan page limited, London, U.K, pp.3.
Dessler, G., & Biju, V. (Latest edition). Human resource management (12th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education
Harold Koontz & Cyril O’Donnell (Latest edition), Principles of Management: An Analysis of Managerial Functions, Tokyo: McGraw-Hill Kogakusha
Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B. and Wright, P.M., (Latest edition). Human resource management: Gaining a competitive advantage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

Apart from these, there may be chapter-specific references.

Instructor bio

Dr. Margie Parikh

BK School of Professional and Management Studies, Gujarat University

Dr. Margie Parikh is a Professor at BK School of Business Management, Gujarat University, where she has been teaching since 1997. She is also a TÜV SÜD as well as ISTD- certified expert in POSH compliance. She has been a Visiting Faculty at the Creative and Cultural Business at IIM Ahmedabad and a Visiting Scholar at Chinmaya Sankrit Vishwavidyapeeth. She is a recipient of Award of Excellence from Bhavans' Middle East. She was an Independent Director on the Board of Atul Auto Ltd., and serves on multiple Boards of Studies at various Universities.

Margie Parikh's case studies can be seen on world’s leading case repositories and journals, Harvard Business School Publication and Ivey Cases being among them. She also has publications in national and international journals. The latest among her books is her translation and exposition of Shukraniti, presented in the modern context of leadership and management.

She has taught Organizational Theory (OT), Organizational Behavior (OB), Organization Development (OD), Leadership, and Human

Resource Development (HRD) among several other related subjects as the member of faculty as well as guest and invited faculty.

Course certificate

A certificate will be issued to those who have successfully submitted the required assignments and have passed the final test.
The course is free, but examination fee may be collected by the certifying agency. Announcement regarding exam registration will be made at the end of the course.

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