This course covers legal compliance and ethical issues in human resource management. Specifically, the course examines compliance to Caribbean labour laws and regulations in HR recruitment, selection, development, training, compensation, placement, retention, termination, discipline, health, safety, workplace discrimination and imbalances, as well as retaliation and privacy issues. Emerging issues, such as sexual harassment, whistle-blowing, internet usage, and data protection are further covered. A significant portion of the course is devoted to ethical challenges encountered by human resources professionals.
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This course provides participants with an appreciation of the link between constitutions and administrative action and also introduces them to the legislative process and its impact on the functioning of the civil service. In addition, the course explores the concepts of administrative laws and oversight bodies, and examines the implications of supranational institutions for national decision-making.
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The changes in the theories and practices of state intervention, in both developed and developing countries, are examined in this course. The course explores the machinery of government, the administrative traditions and the principal agency relationships. It also presents critical analyses of the movement away from more rule-based approaches to government activity to the introduction of market-based/market-driven models of state interventions and institution creation.
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Among other things, the course examines the different models of Public-Private Partnership (PPP), their advantages, disadvantages, obstacles to implementation, and implications for the delivery of social services, as well as the role of public servants in PPPs. The course also explores the inherent contradictions of maintaining the ethos of the public service while employing some of the mechanisms of the market.
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This course explores the content and expressions of values and ethics within the public service and identifies the debate around the differences between public and private sector ethics. It covers the elements of public sector ethics at the professional level, examines their implications for the activities and attitudes of public servants and determines the extent to which these values remain relevant, given the introduction of commercial values and increasing interface with the private sector.
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This course explores the major debates that inform why and how public policies are developed. Students are exposed to the basic ideal type model of policy making and acquire a working knowledge of policy analytic techniques.
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This course provides a critical review of learning theories and models which seek to explain the learning process along with implications for instruction. Students will have the opportunity to compare and contrast the work of prominent theorists while taking into account the role of the learner and the facilitator in the teaching/learning process.
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An overview of Project Management Theory, Strategy, Framework & Structure, is the primary focus of this course. It also provides an introduction to the Project Initiation Domain, covering analytical techniques for creating, evaluating and selecting product/service development business cases, assessing high-level project risks, identifying key stakeholders, and developing a project charter for a sponsor’s signoff.
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The course introduces students to the conceptual underpinnings of various instructional design models and theories. In addition, the course will familiarize students with a number of different design strategies that can be applied in various educational settings and workplaces.
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This course will cover the following critical technical planning topics: collecting requirements; developing a detailed Scope & Work Breakdown Structure; sequencing & estimating Activity Durations using various estimating techniques; scheduling manually using the Critical Path Methodology (CPM); developing an HR staffing plan; using a RACI Chart for assigning roles and responsibilities; identifying, analyzing & planning responses and reserves for Risk & Opportunity events; planning when and how to carry out procurements and use of Expected Monetary Value to determine build-or-buy; planning quality management and process improvement methods and objectives; optimising & baselining the Scope, Schedule and Budget; compiling the Integrated Project Management Plan and documents.
