Hr Planning and Development

Unit 6:

Learning hours: NQF Level 7

Human Resources Planning and Development

30

Description of unit

This unit will enable learners to focus on the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary for the planning and development of an organisation’s human resources (HR). Learners will research the role of the HR function, analyse HR planning and development methods and how they contribute to organisational objectives and requirements, and analyse performance enhancements.

Summary of learning outcomes

To achieve this unit a learner must: 1 2 3 Investigate how Human Resources Management (HRM) contributes to the achievement of organisational objectives Examine HR planning and development methods Analyse ways in which performance of HR may be enhanced.

BA015647 – Guidance and units – Edexcel Level 7 BTEC Advanced Professional Award, Certificate and Diploma in Management Studies – Issue 1 – September 2005

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Content

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Human Resources Management (HRM) Human resource management: definition, characteristics of HRM approach, models of HRM eg contingency model, best practice model, Harvard Framework, Guest, Patterson; key HRM activities, HRM and personnel management, HR consultancy Human resource (HR) function: the role of the HR practitioner, models of HR management roles eg Legge, Tyson and Fell; activities eg guidance, advice, service provision, redeployment and outplacement, redundancy processes and procedures, organisational and legal constraints, integration to different organisational objectives, evaluating the HR function

2

HR planning and development Human resource planning: functions and roles of HR planning, recruitment and selection processes and methods eg defining requirements, advertising approaches, selection methods, interviewing, evaluating the effectiveness of recruitment and selection processes, legislation relating to recruitment and selection Human resource development: definition of human resource development (HRD),...