Manpower Resourcing and Management
This module allows students to acquire practical skills and support knowledge for end-to-end manpower management. Students will also examine the process of planning manpower needs, implementing external recruitment locally and sourcing overseas, instituting internal recruitment processes, and selecting staff. Some practical skills acquired will include developing advertisements for positions, developing tools, and conducting structured interviews as well as developing and evaluating results of selection tests.
Performance, Remuneration and Benefits
This module introduces students to the objectives of total reward, pay structures and compensation design, pay-for-performance practices, employee benefits, and work-life harmony strategies as well as salary and benefits administration. The students will learn practical skills such as preparing salary proposals and manpower budgets, doing Central Provident Fund and tax-related submissions, costing for benefits, and preparing payroll spreadsheets. In addition, they will evaluate current issues such as improving salaries of low wage workers, and consider how recommendations of the National Wage Council are implemented.
Learning and People Development
This module allows students to examine the broad suite of activities within staff training and developing organisational capabilities. Students will learn to conduct needs analysis, translate these into learning goals, develop a total company learning plan, choose suitable learning interventions, and evaluate the results of these interventions. In addition, they will gain basic knowledge of designing and conducting classroom and on-the-job training. They will acquire skills in managing training administration such as sourcing for vendors, developing feedback forms, and servicing internal customers.