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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION IN
Human Resource Management
PREP COURSE
The certification prep course is updated annually and developed by certified human resource professionals. It provides practical, “real-world” information within each of the functional areas of human resource management and provides a current reference of HR practices.
- Strategic Management
- The role of human resources in organizations
- The strategic planning process
- Assessing the internal environment
- Scanning the external environment
- Evaluating HR’s strategic contributions
- Ethical issues affecting organizations
- HR and the legislative and regulatory environment
- Workforce Planning and Employment
- Key legislation affecting employee rights
- Key legislation affecting privacy and consumer protection
- Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action
- Gender discrimination and harassment in the workplace
- Organizational staffing requirements
- Job analysis and documentation
- Recruitment
- Flexible staffing
- Selection and retention
- Organizational exit employee records management
- Human Resources Development
- Key legislation
- Human resource development and the organization
- Organizational development initiatives
- Adult learning and motivation
- Training and development
- Talent management
- Developing leaders performance management
- Total Rewards
- Key compensation legislation
- Total rewards and the strategic focus of the organization
- Compensation structure
- Compensation systems
- Introduction to benefit programs and key benefits legislation
- Government-mandated benefits
- Deferred compensation plans
- Health-care benefits
- Other non-statutory benefits
- Compensation and benefit programs for international employees
- Evaluating the rewards system and communicating it to employees
- Employee and Labor Relations
- Laws affecting employee and labor relations
- Employee relations and organizational culture
- Employee involvement strategies
- Measuring employee attitudes
- Policies, procedures, and work rules
- Discipline and complaint resolution
- Labor relations legislation and union organizing
- Unfair labor practices
- Collective bargaining strikes and secondary boycotts
- Risk Management
- Organizational risk
- Key legislation
- Safety
- Health
- Security privacy
REGISTRATION FEES
Course Fees: $795 (regular), $845 (late), $745 (SHRM members), $795 (SHRM members late). Fees do not cover certification exam.
REFUNDS AND CANCELLATION
Requests postmarked five business days from program start day will be given a full refund less a $25 processing fee. Refund requests must be made in writing to the Office of Professional Development and Educational Outreach. No refunds will be given after five business days from program start date. Please allow two to four weeks to process an approved refund.
The University
of Southern Mississippi reserves the right to cancel any program for
which minimum enrollment is not met prior to the program’s beginning
date. If a program is canceled, participants will be notified, and the full registration fee will be refunded.
The University of Southern Mississippi reserves the right to postpone
programs, limit enrollment, split or combine programs, change instructors or change locations.
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS
If a participant has a disability that qualifies under the Americans with Disabilities Act and requires accommodations, the participant should contact the Southern Miss Office of Professional Development and Educational Outreach by phone at 601.266.4186 or by fax at 601.266.5839 at least two weeks prior to the program.
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