2002 Swinburne TAFE Handbook - Swinburne University of ...

196 I Subject Details
HRM502
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Staffing Policies and Practices
To enable participants to develop and oversee recruitment and selection policies and
practices.
Content
The connection between HR planning, Corporate Strategic Planning and Staffing
Policies.
Equal opportunity issues in recruitment and selection.
Job analysis: purpose, methods, proformas, validation.
Job descriptions and person specifications.
Recruitment: purpose, methods, media, justification.
Selection: purpose, methods, justification.
Induction: purpose, methods, justification.
Evaluation of recruitment, selection and induction policies and practices.
HRM503
Human Resource Management
Information Systems
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: NOSI43, NOS215, NOS216, NOS222
Aims & Objectives
To enable participants to specify and select an HRMIS.
Content
Development of HRMIS.
Nature of HRMIS.
Types of HRMIS data.
Use of HRMIS.
Issues of HRMIS.
Privacy and Freedom of Information.
Decision Making.
Demographics.
Statistics.
HRM504
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Performance Management
To enable participants to develop and evaluate performance management strategies.
Content
The link between performance management and corporate strategic objectives.
Approaches to performance management - evaluative and developmental
approaches.
Links between performance management and other HR activities - job analysis,
selction, remuneration and benefits, training and development, career planning,
succession planning, termination and dismissal.
Legal and industrial implications.
Organisational culture.
Types of performance management systems.
Determining key result indicators and performance criteria.
Performance improvement plans.
Implementation issues: marketing, training, communication, forms and record
keeping, evaluation and modification of the system.
HRM601
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Strategic Human Resource
Planning
Aims & Objectives
To provide competency based training to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to
determine the human resource requirements of an organisation.
Content
The characteristics of strategic management.
Interpretation of strategic plans.
Stakeholder analysis.
Strategy differentiation, alternatives, evaluation and implementation.
Performance standards.
Planning and planning presentation.
HRM602
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Organisation Development
To enable participants to act as a change agent and process consultant in implementing
organisational change and development programs.
Content
Systems and contingency models of organisations.
Organisational and environmental analysis.
00 underlying principles and value systems.
The nature and characteristics of culture.
Organisational cultures and cultural change.
Socialisation and pscyhological contracts.
Experimental learning and action research models.
Processes and models of change.
Characteristics, roles and responsibilities, relationships of consultants.
The consulting process and process consulting skills.
Diagnostic models and methods.
Diagnostic pitfalls and traps.
Data collection methods.
Data analysis methods.
Intervention strategies and methodologies.
High performance "excellence" organisations.
Historical evolution and future trends in 00.
HRn01
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Provide crop care
This unit describes the provision of basic maintenance to a growing crop. All work is
likely to be under direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves the
application of knowledge and skills to a limited range oftasks and roles. Recording and
reporting is undertaken within established routines using methods and procedures that
are predictable. There is a specified range of contexts where the choice of actions
required is made quite clear by the supervisor.
HRn02
10 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Plant a crop by hand
In the Production and Floriculture industries workers plant fruit, vegetable and flower
crops. In the case offruit crops plantlets, bare rooted or containerised plants are
generally planted. Vegetables are usually planted as seedlings, but in some cases seeds
are raised first or planted directly. In the flower growing industry crops may be raised
from seed, cuttings or bulbs and then planted directly into fields or controlled
environment structures. In some instances machinery such as tractors and trailers may
accompany those involved in the planting process. Crop planting is likely to be under
direct supervision with regular checking. Competency involves the application of
knowledge and skills to a limited range of tasks and roles. Crop planting is undertaken
within established routines using predictable methods and procedures.
Swinburne University of Technology I TAFE Handbook 2002