Duration of the online course: 8 hours and 14 minutes
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Strong human resource management is the difference between a workplace that merely functions and one that attracts great people, supports them consistently, and performs sustainably. This free online course introduces the core concepts of HR management and shows how HR decisions connect directly to business results, culture, and employee experience. Whether you are stepping into a people-focused role, supporting managers, or planning a career move into Human Resources, you will gain a clear foundation you can apply across industries and organizational sizes.
You will explore how organizations define culture and how that culture influences expectations, communication, motivation, and retention. The course clarifies the essentials of labor relations and unionization, helping you understand the pressures that shape employer–employee relationships. You will also learn the practical meaning of employee rights and responsibilities, including the role of due process in workplace decisions, and why fair treatment is not only ethical but essential to trust and engagement.
From there, the course connects strategy and planning to real HR work, showing how workforce decisions are aligned with organizational goals. It covers equal employment opportunity principles and issues such as harassment prevention, emphasizing compliant, respectful practices that protect people and the organization. You will gain insight into job analysis and how clear role definitions support better hiring, performance conversations, and compensation decisions.
The learning experience continues through recruiting and selection concepts, helping you understand what strategic recruiting means and how to evaluate applicants more effectively. You will then move into training, development, and career planning, focusing on how to build capability and make learning a strategic investment. Performance management is approached as an ongoing system, not a once-a-year formality, with attention to feedback, expectations, and improvement.
Finally, you will build literacy in total rewards, including job evaluation, variable pay, benefits, and the fundamentals of employee safety and health. Throughout the course, short exercises reinforce key ideas so you can check your understanding and confidently use the language and logic of HR in real workplace scenarios.
Video class: Human Resource Management in Organizations
15m
Exercise: What is the definition of ‘Organizational Culture’ in Human Resource Management?
Video class: Labor Relations
34m
Exercise: _What are the major factors that can trigger unionization?
Video class: Employee Rights and Responsibilities
41m
Exercise: When does ‘due process’ occurs?
Video class: Human Resource Strategy and Planning
16m
Exercise: _What is the first step in the strategic planning process?
Video class: Introduction to Equal Employment Opportunity
37m
Exercise: Mark the correct ‘Sexual Harassment’ description.
Video class: Jobs and Job Analysis
37m
Exercise: _What is the labor force participation rate in the United States?
Video class: Employee Relations
20m
Exercise: Mark the concept that is defined in the following statement: “The degree to which workers believe in and accept organization objectives and want to remain employed at a company.”
Video class: Introduction to Recruiting
28m
Exercise: _What is strategic recruiting?
Video class: Introduction to Employee Selection
33m
Exercise: Regarding ‘Application Purposes’ that gives the elements to what the employee should bring to the employer to show a little about itself and what he desires. What alternative is false concerning these informations?
Video class: Training Human Resources
38m
Exercise: _What is necessary for training to be considered a strategic investment?
Video class: Human Resource Development
30m
Exercise: Career planning is a vital step that has to be taken seriously and it comes with a whole setting of primary steps to help with. Having in mind such good steps to help us out, which one is false?
Video class: Performance Management
26m
Exercise: _What are the four things that performance management should do?
Video class: Introduction to Total Rewards
40m
Exercise: The following definition is best fit in what concept? “is a formal, systematic process to determine the relative Worth of Jobs within an organization.”
Video class: Understanding Variable Pay
21m
Exercise: Regarding Variable Pay, the concept of ‘employee ownership’ is best described by:
Video class: Managing Employee Benefits
36m
Exercise: Among the employee benefits, what the most common health care plans cover?
Video class: Employee Safety and Health
35m
Exercise: The employee’s safety and health is a serious issue, when a condition could probably cause death or serious physical harm, and the employer should know of the condition, OSHA issues a serious violation citation and may impose a fine up to how much per violation?
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Course comments: Human resource management concepts
Students found the free course easy to follow, well explained, and comprehensive, helping them learn a lot quickly. Many praised the materials and professor; a few suggested shorter video lessons for better pacing.
Whitey France Mantsho Mabitla
wooow, super good and easy to understand
Marisol Jimenez Agosto
The course itself was pretty easy-to-use and comprehensive. Great Professor behind the course
JABIÑAR Gelbert
Informative and beneficial to me as someone learning human resource knowledge and skills. Thanks a million
Jemina Shata
very interesting course and the lessons here are easy to understand..
Adesida Adetola
it was a simplified and understandable one
Tiyasa Koner
I have learned so many things from the course.
Innocent pako lekhutilile
i have learned a lot of thinks in are short period of tym
Good explanations
hiba gameel
The course is good and its material is very good, but if it is divided into videos with a duration not exceeding 15 minutes, it will be excellent, esp
Ogunyemi Anuoluwapo
A refreshing knowledge to what felt lost for long