Module Code: n/a
Long Title Advanced People Management and Development
Title Advanced People Management and Development
Module Level: LEVEL 7
EQF Level: 6
EHEA Level: First Cycle
Credits: 5
Module Coordinator:  
Module Author: DAVE CORMACK
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Specifications of the qualifications and experience required of staff  
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Identify and discuss a number of key functions of professional HRM which impact on organisational performance including performance management, managing employee exit, and absence management.
LO2 Analyse an critique the options for succession planning from a people management perspective
LO3 Develop HR strategies to deal with organisational problems such as retention and absence.
LO4 Compare and contrast various models of coaching and mentoring and explain the psychological underpinnings of coaching and mentoring
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is required before enrolment on this module. While the prior learning is expressed as named NCI module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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Co-requisite Modules
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Module Content & Assessment

Indicative Content
Performance Management
• Strategic aspects of performance • The link between HR policies and performance • Employee performance management • Understand the purposes of appraisal • Benefits of appraisal • Methods of appraisal* • Appraisal interviewing • Post appraisal issues • Problems with performance appraisals • International differences
Coaching and Mentoring
• Definitions and models of coaching and of mentoring; • Differences between coaching, counselling and mentoring; • Coaching culture; • Appropriate and inappropriate uses of coaching and mentoring; • Giving, gathering and making sense of feedback; • Contracting for coaching and for mentoring; • Coaching questions; • Stages of coaching and of mentoring; • Contracting for coaching and mentoring; • Goal-setting.
Absenteeism and Attendance
• National context – employee absenteeism • Impact of absence on the organisation • Measuring absence • Costing absence • The causes of absence • Approaches to absence management • Absenteeism Policy Formulation • Legal context
Turnover and Retention
• Turnover trends • Measuring and Benchmarking • Explaining reasons for turnover • Retention strategies • Validity and reliability of Exit interviews
Retirement
• Preparing employees for retirement • Post-retirement contact
Management of Redundancy
• Defining redundancy • Role of HR in managing redundancy • Supporting redundant employees • Managing the survivors
Succession Planning
• Succession planning • Compiling the succession plan • Career development • Impact on HR and organisational processes • Implementation of the succession and career development plan
Assessment Breakdown%
Coursework30.00%
End of Module Assessment70.00%

Assessments

Full Time

Coursework
Assessment Type: Assignment % of total: 30
Assessment Date: n/a Outcome addressed: 2
Non-Marked: No
Assessment Description:
Learners will be asked to prepare a succession plan for their own position in their organisation
End of Module Assessment
Assessment Type: Terminal Exam % of total: 70
Assessment Date: End-of-Semester Outcome addressed: 1,3,4
Non-Marked: No
Assessment Description:
Terminal exam will consist of 4 questions from deiifernt areas of the module with learbners being required to answer 3
No Workplace Assessment

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Module Workload

Module Target Workload Hours 0 Hours
Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Workload Description Hours Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload
Lecture No Description 24 Every Week 24.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 24.00
 

Module Resources

Recommended Book Resources
  • Carberry, R. and Cross, R. Human Resoure Management - A Concise Introduction, [ISBN: 9781137009395].
Supplementary Book Resources
  • Armstrong, M.. (2009), A Handbook of Personnel Management,, 11th,. Kogan Page,.
This module does not have any article/paper resources
This module does not have any other resources
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