Human Resource management belongs to all organizations. Its focal point is people; people are the life blood of organizations. Hence, this course is designed to offer conceptual framework and insights that can be used in managing this human resource. It emphasizes on: overview of HRM (emerging HR challenges; changing role of HR; the evolution, importance, scope and component of HRM), human resources planning and development, attracting the talent (recruitment, selection of personnel), induction, placement, training and development; performance planning and appraisal; wage and salary administration and/or the human factor in work design & compensation plans & incentive schemes (reward system); morale and motivation; discipline; maintenance and safety; industrial relations; collective bargaining; grievances and grievance handling; HRM in multinational (& transitional) enterprises. It also focuses on newly emerging issues of Human resource like diversity and its management, empowerment, HIV/AIDS and the workplace.

CHAPTER ONE: AN OVERVIEW    OF HRM                                                                

1. 1. Definition and back ground
   2. Importance of Human resource management
   3. Evolution and Development of Human resource Management   
   4. Emerging human resource challenges

CHAPTER TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTS    

1. 1. The external environment
   2. The internal environment
   3. Human resource management model

CHAPTER THREE: JOB ANALYSIS & JOB DESIGN                        

1. 1. Meaning and definition of job analysis
   2. Steps in job analysis
   3. Methods of collecting job analysis information
   4. Importance of job analysis information
   5. Potential problems with job analysis
   6. Job design

CHAPTER FOUR: HR PLANNING, RECRUITMENT & SELECTION                  

1. 1. HR Planning
      1. Meaning and definition of Human resource planning
      2. importance of human resource planning
      3. steps[procedures] in human resource planning
      4. factors affecting human resource planning
   2. Employee Recruiting
      1. Features of recruitment
      2. Purpose of recruitment
      3. Factors governing recruitment
      4. Sources and methods of recruitment
   3. Employee Selection
      1. Selection criteria
      2. The selection process
      3. Factors governing selection
   4. Orientation [induction]
      1. Purpose of orientation
      2. Levels of orientation 

CHAPTER FIVE: EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT             

1. 1. Performance Appraisal
      1. Purpose of performance appraisal
      2. Performance appraisal steps
      3. Problems associated with performance appraisals
      4. Performance appraisals methods
   2. Training And Development                    
      1. Objectives of training and development
      2. Process of training and development
      3. Training methods
      4. Career development

CHAPTER SIX - COMPENSATION                                                         

1. 1. Managing compensation
   2. Rewarding performance
   3. Deciding and administering Benefits

CHAPTER SEVEN - INTEGRATION AND MAINTAINACE              

1. 1. Employee discipline
   2. Labor relation and labor laws
   3. Collective bargaining
   4. Grievance handling

CHAPTER EIGHT - PROMOTIONS TRANSFERS AND SEPARATION      

1. 1.  Purpose of transfer
   2.  Types of promotion
   3.  Reason for transfer
   4.  Types of transfer
   5.  Types of separation

 CHAPTER NINE - SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN WORK PLACE, E- HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & EMPOWEREMENT, SAFETY & HEALTH                 

1. 6. Equal employment opportunity
   7. Types of sexual harassment in work place
   8.  Prevalence of sexual harassment
   9.  Effects of sexual harassment
   10.  Remedies
   11.  Tips on E- Human resource management
   12. Workforce Diversity management     
   13. HIV and Workplace
   14. Workforce Empowerment
   15. Managing workplace safety and health

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• Dessler : Human Resource Management , 9^th ed.1998
• Edwin B. Personnel Management,1998
• Lioyd.L.Bayers and Leslie W.Rue: Human Resource Management,1997
• Margaret Attwood and Stuart Dim Mock : Personnel management ,1999
• Margaret Foot Caroline Hook : Introducing Human Resource Management  1998
• Wendell L. French: Human Resource Management,1996
• Shaun Tyson and Alford york, An introduction to  Human resource Management 1^st ed, 2001