Diploma in Human Resource Management
Programme Objectives and Description
This is a two years programme that is designed to familiarize students with the very latest thinking on, and best practice in, Human Resource Management. The programme equips students with knowledge, skills and attitudinal competences required for effective job performance as general and human resource officers at lower levels in organizations. Also, it builds their capacity and orients them to key issues and techniques of managing people in work organizations. The programme requires students to complete four (4) semesters of seventeen (17) weeks each. It requires candidates to successfully complete a total of forty (45) credit points, including a field practical of six weeks between year one and year two. Each candidate will be provided with a log book where he/she will record the activities done each week and signed by the Host organization supervisor. At the end the candidate will compile a report stipulating strength and challenges experienced during the field attachment.
Programme Structure
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
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Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
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PUB 053 Principles and Functions of Management |
DST 020 Introduction to Development Perspectives |
FIELD ATTACHMENT |
PUB 070 Ethics and Governance |
BUS 090 Customer Service Management |
QMS 080 Basic Mathematics and Applied Computing |
ACC 080 Introduction to Accounting and Finance Management |
ICT 715 Introduction to Information Technology and System Organization |
PUB 083 Recruitment, Selection and Induction Process |
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COM 075 Business Communication Skills |
PUB 064 Human Resource Planning |
PUB 074 Rural Development in Developing Countries |
PUB 084 Training and Development |
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PUB 055 Introduction to Public Administration |
PUB 063Introduction to Local Government |
PUB 072 Principles of Records Management and Office Procedures |
BUS 090 Principles of Entrepreneurship |
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PUB 054 Introduction to Human Resource Management |
PUB 065 Organizational behavior and Diversity Management |
PUB 075 Stakeholders in Service Delivery |
PUB 087 Introduction to Industrial Relations and Labor Laws |
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10 cps |