ENHANCING MANAGEMENT PROFICIENCY IN AFRICA

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Human Resource Management Programs
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  1. Strategic Human Resources Planning
  2. Human Resource Management and Development
  3. Developing High Performance Teams
  4. Management Information Systems for   Human Resources Managers
     
 
 

 
1.Strategic Human Resources Planning

What To Benefit
  • Ability to identify and critically analyze both extra-and intra­
    organizational factors that necessitate, determine and shape both human resources demand and human resources supply
  • Ability to give useful advice to others on long-range, strategic and business plans (including Human Resources Plans)
  • Ability to person organizations cost-effectively
  • Ability to actually produce human resources plans at both the organizational and national levels, evolve different scenarios and design possible response strategies to various planning situations.
  • Take home laptop.
What Will Be Covered
  • Environmental scanning
  • Long-range and business planning
  • Human resources management information systems (Overview)
  • Methods for determining both human resources demand and human resources supply
  • Management of human resources surpluses, deficits and normalizes effective institutional building for the management of human resources planning and its aftermath
  • Effective institutional building for the mangement of human resources planning and its aftermath
Facilitation Approach And Methods
Lectures; group work, effectuated mainly through case studies; incidents and exercises; and individual assignments and projects will dominate the methods to be employed.
Who Should Benefit?
  • All those managers who wish to indigenes human resources planning skills so that they can effectively determine their complement levels. Similarly, it is for those managers who want to avoid “laying off people onto the streets” whereby the latter find themselves out of jobs without prior warning; as well as for those whose responsibility is to produce national human resources plans in order to fight against unemployment and under-employment, among other things.

Dates and Venues - 2010

  • Feb  15 - 26, 2010          (2 weeks)           Maseru  - Lesotho
  • Aug  16 - 27, 2010         (2 weeks)           Kampala – Uganda

Dates and Venues - 2011

  • Feb  14 - 25, 2011          (2 weeks)           Gaborone –Botswana
  • Sept  19 – 30, 2011        (2 weeks)           Dar-es- Salaam-TZ

Programme Fees

A fee of US$ 3000 is payable to cover tuition, training materials only.
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2.Human Resource Management and Development

What To Benefit
  • Exposure to the essence of Human Resources Management and Development
  • Appreciation of its role and relative importance among other functions in organizations.
  • A take home computer
What Will Be Covered
  • Introduction overview will be made in the following respect:
    • Management functions
    • Human resources management and development
    • Human resources information management system
    • Human resources planning
    • Human resources staffing
    • Staff performance appraisal
    • Staff compensation
    • The management of industrial relations
    • Leadership styles
    • Motivational strategies
    • Human Resources Health, Safety and Welfare Services
    • Human resources training and development
    • Employee database
Facilitation Approach And Methods
There will be more of lecturing than group work dynamics. This is necessitated by large amount of didactic materials that have to be covered.

Who Should Benefit?
All those who would like to be systematically introduced to and involved in Human Resources Management and Development as a discipline.

Dates and Venues 2009

  • May 3 – 21, 2010                       (3 weeks)         Mbabane-Swaziland
  • Aug 16 - Sept 3 2010     .........(3 weeks)         Nairobi-Kenya

Dates and Venues 2009

  • May 9– 27, 2011            ..........(3 weeks)           Pretoria - South Africa
  • Sept 5 –23   2011          ..........(3 weeks)          Cape town - South Africa

Programme Fees

US$ 3000 is required to cater for tuition and training materials only.
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3. Developing High Performance Teams
What To Benefit
  • Identify different types of teams
  • Build teamwork by recognizing and tapping into the twelve characteristics of an effective team
  • Promote trust and rapport by exploring their team player style and how it impacts group dynamics
  • Recognize the key elements that move a team from involvement to empowerment and how to give these elements to their team
  • Develop strategies for dealing with team conflict and common situations
  • Use action planning and analysis tools to help their team perform
What Will Be Covered
  • Types of Teams and Team Norms
  • The Four Stages of Team Development.
  • The Trust/Relationship Model
  • Team Shaping Factors
  • Problem Identification
  • Exploration, Analysis, and Evaluation
  • Other Problem-Solving Techniques
  • Resolving Conflict SWOT Analysis
  • Developing Team Action Plans
Facilitation Approach And Methods

Lectures; group work, effectuated mainly through case studies; incidents and exercises; and individual assignments and projects will dominate the methods to be employed.

Who Should Benefit?

Human Resource managers, Program/ Project Managers and Coordinators, Operations Managers, Administrators and all Team leaders.

Dates and Venues 2010

  • June 14 – 25, 2010   (2 weeks)           Kampala –Uganda
  • Oct 18 – 29, 2010    .(2 weeks)           Mombasa-Kenya

Dates and Venues 2011

  • May 9– 20, 2011      .(2 weeks)            Pretoria - South Africa
  • Oct 10 – 21, 2009    .(2 weeks)           Durban – South Africa

Programme Fees

Fee is US$ 3000, to meet the cost of tuition and training materials only.

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4. Management Information Systems for   Human Resources Managers
What To Benefit
  • Ability to develop and maintain the human resources database
  • Ability to query personnel databases and answer any query speedily and generally
  • Ability to develop work sheets or special analysis using decision support tools
What Will Be Covered
  • Overview of human resources management
  • Overview of Information Technology
  • The HRMIS planning and development process
  • Employee database design and management
  • Query language and report generator
  • Structured computer applications in Human Resources
Facilitation Approach And Methods

Lectures; group work, effectuated mainly through case studies; incidents and exercises; and individual assignments and projects will dominate the methods to be employed.

Who Should Benefit?

Professional Personnel and Human Resource Directors, Managers and Senior Officers in Government, Parastatal and Private Sectors who are or want to take advantage of the developments in information technology to provide effective and efficient human resources management and development services

Dates and Venues 2010

  • May 24 - June 4, 2010    ........(2 weeks)           Mbabane - Swaziland
  • Sept 13 – Oct 1, 2010            ..(2 weeks)   ........Kampala-Uganda  

Dates and Venues 2011

  • May 23 - June 3, 2011    .......(2 weeks)           Mbabane – Swaziland
  • Oct 3– 14, 2011      ..............(2 weeks)           Durban - South Africa

Programme Fees

Fee is US$ 3000, to meet the cost of tuition and training materials only.

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