Certificate in Fundamentals & Innovation
Course 4 of the Advanced Certificate in Sustainable HR
Our Certificate in Fundamentals & Innovation emphasises the significance of HR governance in modern sustainable organisations, focuses on fostering an agile workforce, providing knowledge and tools for effective organisational change management and much more.
Fundamentals & Innovation
Specifically tailored for HR professionals, this course focuses on the essential legal frameworks and policies that shape HR governance and equips HR leaders with agile design thinking skills crucial for sustainable organisational success.
Module 4.1 Innovation & Organisation Structure
The Innovation & Organisation Structure certificate equips HR leaders with agile design thinking skills crucial for sustainable organisational success. Gain insights into the interplay between quality systems and innovation, enabling informed decisions on centralisation and decentralisation. The Focus is on fostering an agile workforce, providing knowledge and tools for organisational change management, quality management and design thinking.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand and evaluate the fundamental organising principles that incentivise people to create organisations
- Understand the framework and processes of organisational change management; analyse different examples of how to lead organisational change
- Understand the structure of quality management systems (QMS) and how to evaluate and apply QMS to different work situations
- Understand key metrics or KPIs associated with innovation/quality, for example: Plan Do Check Act (PDCA), audit non-conformity findings, number of patents, customer/client satisfaction, Net Promoter Score
- Understand and evaluate the critical role of knowledge management in information and digital commerce and communication
- Understand the discipline underlying innovation and how applying the principles of agile iteration can be applied to HR
- Understand how innovation can be enhanced by applying design thinking to HR
- Understand and evaluate the key differences between disruption and transformation and analyse how best to navigate the organisation
- Understand and evaluate why the future of work is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed
Module 4.2 Legal Principles & Policy Essentials
The Legal Principles & Policy Essentials domain emphasises the significance of HR governance in modern sustainable organisations. Specifically tailored for HR professionals, this course focuses on the essential legal frameworks and policies that shape HR governance. Through this comprehensive training, participants can enrich their understanding of HR governance and make meaningful contributions to their organisation’s long-term success.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the various models and interpretations of HR’s purpose and role
- Analyse the five characteristics that make a profession - a profession, and evaluate where HR fits on the maturity curve of a profession
- Understand, apply, analyse and evaluate the fundamentals structures of HR policy and procedure design, development and department implementation
- Understand and apply key metrics or KPIs for assessing HR’s contribution to the organisation, for example: ratio of HR staff to total workforce; number of HR staff with appropriate professional qualifications; HCROI. Expat repatriation retention
- Understand and analyse the most common legal principles that govern HR’s role and duties
- Understand and analyse comparative employment systems and different legal models of organisation
- Understand and analyse the different forms and core requirements of international work assignments (e.g., expats and international assignments)
- Understand and analyse why and how reverse globalisation is impacting the world of work and HR
- OPTIONAL CAPSTONE: Create, produce or compose a report based on one topic in the course or attendance at one industry-outreach event
Other courses in this series
Focused on strategic leadership, emotional intelligence, and fostering a culture of well-being, this course integrates practical tools for sustainable success in today's dynamic business landscape.
Course 1: Leadership & Wellbeing
Course 2: Talent & Development
