Organisational Development for HR Managers

Janet Weston
It is essential for HR leaders and Organisational Development practitioners, to understand the relation between HR and OD, and how it can be used to improve organisational and employee effectiveness. This challenging course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to enhance OD capability and create initiatives that introduce and sustain competitive HR advantage in organisation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This essential course is designed for Senior HR practitioners, managers, team leaders who are involved in improving the organisations processes and its effectiveness.

COURSE PROFILE

 • What is Organisational Development?

o Organisational development and organisational effectiveness
o Define and measure organisational climate 
Be able to strike a balance between macro and micro organisational development 
Differing perspectives of organisational development
o Organisational climate, culture, norms, values and power structure
Worker commitment
o Structure of roles in organisation
o The combination of the authority based in roles, knowledge and skills
o The creation of an open system of communication 
Aspects of quality of working life
o Healthy and safe working conditions
o Development and growth of human capacities
o Social integration of people and relevance of work
Enhancing the effectiveness of training programmes
o Performance management 
o ROI and training evaluation 
Factors affecting manpower planning and career development 
Human resource management 
o objectives and conventional duties 
Generating human resource policies and tactics 
o Supporting corporate, divisional and functional strategies 
Contemporary personnel issues
o Downsizing  and restructuring 
o Disciplinary and grievances procedure  
Recruitment and selection 
o Recruitment requirements to fit organisational strategy
o Creating a target recruitment policy 
o Assessing your interviewing: competency-based, assessment centres and others 
o Outsourcing , documentation and verification 
Reward management system 
o Job evaluation 
o Salary structures and factors affecting pay levels 
o Pay administration 
Interpersonal relationship skills 
o Conflict resolution 

SKILLS ATTAINED

At the end of this programme participants will be able to:

  • Understand organisational development as a process
  • Understand organisational climate and how it can be measured
  • Recognise the balance between macro and micro organisational development 
  • Identify the  specific elements of the quality of working life 
  • Implement effective career development strategies
  • Assess and plan for manpower requirements
  • Determine an appropriate organisational HR design
  • Identify and implement solutions on issues related to personnel 
  • Develop strong interpersonal skills

COURSE DATES

COURSE REF: OD2
Sep 16 '13 - Sep 27 '13
Nov 04 '13 - Nov 15 '13
£5,500.00