• Level 7
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Delivery type:
    Online only
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Course cost:
    $890 NZ Domestic
    $2,104 NZ International
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
  • Availability
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This online course will give you an understanding of the key concepts and practical approaches for the strategic development of people and organisations.

The course covers:

  • human resource development (HRD)
  • managing knowledge and adult learning principles
  • training needs identification and analysis
  • performance management and career development
  • evaluating the effectiveness of human resources development programmes
  • managing diversity
  • the Treaty of Waitangi.

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

What you will learn

When you successfully complete this course you will be able to:

  • evaluate the current debates in defining and theorising HRD
  • discuss the key concepts and application of adult learning relevant to the study and practice of HRD in the wider organisational, social and national context
  • undertake a strategic training needs analysis for individual and organisational development
  • design a programme to suit specific individual and organisational needs, including the importance of performance management and career development
  • consider the issues involved in the development and implementation of structured and unstructured learning programmes.
  • develop appropriate methods for evaluating the effectiveness of individual and organisational learning in the workplace
  • critically evaluate the current and future trends and influences in HRD, managing diversity and learning in the workplace, and the roles and importance of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Assessment

100% internal assessment 

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.