Northern Illinois University

NIU Outreach - Professional Development & Training

Description of SHRM's Modules

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 is a significant responsibility. 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.