

Master’s Certificate in Human Resource Management
Level: Intermediate
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Courses
Course 1 Strategic Workforce Planning | Human Resource Development
- 24 - 28 February 2019 Dubai
- 22 - 26 September 2019 Dubai
Overview
Strategic Workforce Planning
Strategic Workforce Planning enables the organisation to meet its talent needs and close critical skill gaps using data-driven processes that inform HR initiatives. HR demonstrates strategic value by facilitating financial and operational growth, continuity, or stability. This module outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, administering, and maintaining an effective strategic workforce plan. This module uses a real-world case study capstone lesson to reinforce the learning objectives.
Human Resource Development
Human Resource Development (HRD) aligns organisational business needs with employees' competencies, knowledge, and skills, effectively closing the gap between them. HR demonstrates strategic value by identifying and creating learning opportunities that increase employee capability and organisational knowledge. This module outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to analysing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating an effective HRD strategy and plan which is also aligned with both career and leadership development.
Course 2 Creating a Talent Acquisition Strategy | Succession Planning
- 24 - 28 March 2019 Dubai
- 20 - 24 October 2019 Dubai
Overview
Creating a Talent Acquisition Strategy
Talent Acquisition and Retention encompasses the activities involved in building and maintaining a workforce. HR demonstrates strategic value by developing, implementing, and measuring the individual and organisational success of activities and programmes for sourcing, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, orientation and retention. This module outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, administering, and maintaining a modern talent management system.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the process of identifying high-potential employees, evaluating and honing their skills and abilities, and preparing them for advancement into positions which are key to the success of the organisation. Succession planning involves understanding the organisation's long-term goals and objectives, identifying high-potential candidates and supporting their respective developmental needs. To be strategic, succession planning must also determine workforce trends and predictions. This module outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, administering, and maintaining an effective Succession Planning programme. This module uses a real-world case study capstone lesson to reinforce the learning objectives.
Course 3 Total Rewards | Employee Engagement and Relations
- 28 - 02 May 2019 Dubai
- 17 - 21 November 2019 Dubai
Overview
Total Rewards
Total Rewards encompasses direct and indirect remuneration approaches that employers use to attract, recognise, and retain workers. HR demonstrates value by designing and administering systems and programmes (e.g. base pay, benefits, incentive pay, leave, perquisites, retirement) that support recruitment and retention efforts. This module outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, administering, and maintaining a compensation system.
Employee Engagement and Relations
Employee Engagement solidifies the connection and relations among employee, manager, and the organisation's mission, vision, values, and goals. HR demonstrates value by understanding and leveraging the employer-employee relationship from both individual and organisational perspectives, developing effective strategies to address appropriate expectations for performance and behavior from employees at all levels. Key considerations include: culture, work-life balance, ethics and CSR. This module uses a real-world case study capstone lesson to reinforce the learning objectives.
Course 4 Your Role as the HR Business Partner | Strategic HR
- 16 - 20 June 2019 Dubai
- 15 - 19 December 2019 Dubai
Overview
Your Role as the HR Business Partner
Develop the necessary skills to become an effective HR business partner and maximise the value of HR in your organisation. Explore the positive impact of the HR business partner role and how the use of an HR business partner structure improves HR services across an organisation. How to build a business case and engage in group discussions to enhance your consulting skills, business acumen and analytics to strategically contribute to organisational goals.
Strategic HR
Strategic HR involves organisational planning to achieve success and create value for stakeholders. HR demonstrates value by contributing its perspective and expertise to development of the enterprise strategy, and by developing, implementing, and evaluating an HR strategy aligned with the organisation's goals, values, and tactics, as defined in the enterprise strategy. A case study is used at the end of each lesson to reinforce the learning objectives.