Course overview
As a manager you would be amazed at how much you do not know - but need to know - about your staff’s employment rights, and your own!
You may think that all this is covered by your HR Department, you should think again. Dealing with an increasingly ethnically, culturally and more rights-conscious workforce you really need to have at the very least the basics covered.
Falconbury’s 8 module Essential HR Duties for People Managers online course will equip you with the necessary skills to ensure that you fully understand the required HR duties within your organisation. The course covers aspects of recruitment, contracts of employment, staff’s statutory rights, dismissal and your specific HR obligations which can, and will, affect how you manage your staff.
How does this online programme work and what do you get?
- Course access from anywhere through your own personal login and administration suite
- Keep track of your progress as you go
- Easy to use note taking and bookmarking facility to return to areas of interest and re-study
- At your convenience: at your desk, from your tablet or from your home computer
- An optional on-line multiple choice assessment at the end of the course for you to ensure you are satisfied with the completion of your training
- Certificate of completion awarded for your training records
Course benefits include:
- Take you through the steps of successful recruitment and making job offers
- Detail what ‘must’ be included in a contract of employment
- Examine what ‘fair’ dismissal is and how employers are expected to be ‘reasonable’
- Deliver top techniques to manage absence and sickness effectively
- Advance your understanding of pay and benefits to effectively motivate your team
Who should take this course?
Managers and executives at all levels will find this course sharpens their HR knowledge and improves their decision-making as a result. This includes:
- Managers
- Team leaders
- Technical specialists
- Office managers
- Department heads
- CEOs of SMEs
Certificate of excellence
Participants are invited to undertake a final assessment in the form of an online multiple-choice paper. A pass rate of 80% and above is required to ensure that a high level of competency has been achieved within the subject area, where upon you will receive a ‘Certificate of Excellence’.
Speakers
Anne Knell
Anne Knell, MA, CFCIPD, is an independent HR consultant trading as Newways 90. She provides a broad range of HR advice and support to clients in all sectors of business. Before that she spent over 20 years in human capital services for Binder Hamlyn Fry/Arthur Andersen. She has wide experience in advising companies on organisation design, HR policies and procedures, employment law, remuneration planning including job evaluation, the introduction of appraisal systems and training of appraisers, identifying relevant performance indicators and employee attitude surveys. Author and editor of several publications on employment law and HR practice, she also lectures extensively on these topics.
Much of her present client work involves advising directors and managers of the implications of actions they may be considering in relation to staff, e.g. recruitment, contracts of employment, appraisal, discipline and dismissal.
Anne has produced a number of publications including The Personnel Manager’s Factbook. Her latest publication is The Compact Employment Law Reference Book 2012. She is also a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CFCIPD), and is qualified to use a range of psychometric tests for recruitment and assessment purposes.
