Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management

Unit I : Human Resource Function
Human Resource Philosophy - Changing environments of HRM - Strategic human
resource management - Using HRM to attain competitive advantage - Trends in HRM -
Organisation of HR departments - Line and staff functions - Role of HR Managers.
Unit II : Recruitment & Placement
Job analysis : Methods - IT and computerised skill inventory - Writing job specification -
HR and the responsive organisation.
Recruitment and selection process : Employment planning and forecasting - Building
employee commitment : Promotion from within - Sources, Developing and Using
application forms - IT and recruiting on the internet.
Employee Testing & selection : Selection process, basic testing concepts, types of test,
work samples & simulation, selection techniques, interview, common interviewing
mistakes, Designing & conducting the effective interview, small business applications,
computer aided interview.
Unit III : Training & Development
Orientation & Training : Orienting the employees, the training process, need analysis,
Training techniques, special purpose training, Training via the internet.
Developing Managers : Management Development - The responsive managers - On-thejob
and off-the-job Development techniques using HR to build a responsive
organisation. Management Developments and CD-Roms - Key factor for success.
Performance appraisal : Methods - Problem and solutions - MBO approach - The
appraisal interviews - Performance appraisal in practice.
Managing careers : Career planning and development - Managing promotions and
transfers.
Unit IV : Compensation & Managing Quality
Establishing Pay plans : Basics of compensation - factors determining pay rate -
Current trends in compensation - Job evaluation - pricing managerial and professional
jobs - Computerised job evaluation.
Pay for performance and Financial incentives : Money and motivation - incentives for
operations employees and executives - Organisation wide incentive plans - Practices in
Indian organisations.
Benefits and services : Statutory benefits - non-statutory (voluntary) benefits -
Insurance benefits - retirement benefits and other welfare measures to build employee
commitment.
Unit V : Labour relations and employee security
Industrial relation and collective bargaining : Trade unions - Collective bargaining -
future of trade unionism. Discipline administration - grievances handling - managing
dismissals and separation.
Labour Welfare : Importance & Implications of labour legislations - Employee health -
Auditing HR functions, Future of HRM function.