This program is a must for anyone in the business of managing people. Knowing the essentials can keep you and your company out of trouble, make you a better manager, improve workplace morale, help with performance management, and protect your company from needless litigation. 

Knowledge of the basic HR concepts covered in this program will help establish a foundation for implementing effective HR practices and policies within your organization.

Program Benefits

• Understanding issues, laws, and procedures related to the employment process will help reduce risks of legal action to your organization.
• A perfect course for managers who need to know basic HR concepts BEFORE disciplinary action is required and HR has to get involved as well as those who want an overview of areas outside their current specialty or are newcomers to the HR profession.
• Participants receive 1.5 CEUs of continuing education credit.
• The action oriented curriculum is designed to provide opportunities for networking, sharing “real-world” experiences, and applying what is learned in the workplace.

Who Should Attend?

This two day course is ideal for small business owners, managers, and entry level HR professionals. Division/departmental supervisors with responsibility for interviewing and training employees, individuals seeking a career in HR, team leaders with supervisory accountabilities, individuals seeking higher management positions, staffing specialists, benefits coordinators, HR administrators, recruiters and payroll assistants will also benefit from participation in this program.

What you get when you enroll in SHRM’s Essentials of HR Management Course

• SHRM’s Essentials of HR Management print materials and online resources
• Instructor provided supplemental tools, resources, and learning activities
• Interactive training by SPHR certified practitioners
• Full-service catering (continental breakfast, break service, lunch)
• Peer and instructor networking opportunities
• CEU’s and certificate of completion

Module 1: Essentials of Human Resource Management
This module answers the question “What is human resource management?” and explains key HR roles and responsibilities and details the planning process that is at the center of HR efforts.

Module 2: Employment Law in Your Workplace
Being aware of legal issues and ensuring compliance throughout the organization are significant responsibilites. This module explains the key pieces of legislation with which an organization must comply.

Module 3: Effective Recruitment and Selection Techniques
Staffing an organization with qualified employees who can achieve strategic goals and objectives is important to every manager in an organization. This module examines several important aspects of staffing and focuses on how to make the best match between the job and the person.

Module 4: Basics of Compensation
This module discusses key aspects of a total compensation system, maps out the process for developing pay structures, and describes the common types of pay increases.

Module 5: Orienting and Training Your Employees
This module discusses the purpose of employee orientation, training and development. It provides a perspective on how adults learn while considering several methods of training and gives you insight into determining whether training is successful.

Module 6: Ensuring Quality Performance
Performance management encompasses processes used to identify, encourage, measure, evaluate, improve, and reward employee performance. Performance appraisal is the focus of this module. Topics of discussion include: understanding the purpose of performance appraisals; mapping out the appraisal process; introduction to various appraisal methods; and defining steps to follow when disciplinary action becomes necessary.

Continuing Education Units/Contact Hours

This program is HRCI pre-approved for 15 hours (1.5 CEUs) of general re-certification credit for PHR, SPHR and GPHR certified professionals.

Dates	Location	Time	Price*	Event Number	Register Online
6/13- 6/14/2013	NIU Hoffman Estates 5555 Trillium Blvd., Hoffman Estates, IL 60192	8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.	$650 – Standard $550 – SHRM member/NIU alumni	#12661

*Register at least two weeks prior to start of course date to avoid $100 late registration charge. 
A shipping fee (if applicable) will be assessed upon registration.

Fees are inclusive of the SHRM Essentials of HR Management course materials, continental breakfast, lunch and break service. Participants will receive materials at the program.

Registrants paying by check should fill out and send in the Mail/Fax Registration Form.

The Illinois Veterans Grant and the Illinois National Guard Grant programs cover tuition and certain fees for eligible students. Charges for non-credit programs offered by NIU-Outreach are not based on university-wide tuition and fee calculations determined by the university and approved by its governing board. The Illinois Veterans Grant and Illinois National Guard Grant do not cover these charges.