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HRM-DIP-001

Diploma in Human Resource Management

Advanced human resource practice for supervisory roles. Move from HR administration into workforce planning, industrial relations, remuneration and HR strategy.

  • Diploma
  • 1 Year
  • Blended
  • 12 modules
  • 58 lessons

This Diploma in Human Resource Management prepares learners to take responsibility for human resource functions within an organisation, moving beyond administrative support into planning, advisory and supervisory work.

Learners develop advanced skills in workforce planning, recruitment strategy, industrial relations, remuneration and benefits, performance management, learning and development, and human resource information systems.

Course learning outcomes

By completing this course, learners should be able to

  • Develop workforce plans aligned to organisational objectives
  • Design and manage recruitment and selection processes
  • Apply Papua New Guinea employment law to workplace decisions
  • Manage industrial relations matters and negotiate with employee representatives
  • Design remuneration and benefits structures
  • Implement performance management systems and support underperforming staff
  • Plan and evaluate learning and development programmes
  • Manage grievance, discipline and termination processes fairly and lawfully
  • Develop and implement workplace health, safety and wellbeing policy
  • Use human resource information systems to maintain records and produce reports
  • Analyse workforce data to inform management decisions
  • Apply professional ethics and confidentiality in human resource practice

Course structure

Ten modules, each of approximately 20 hours

  1. Strategic Human Resource Management
  2. Workforce Planning and Job Design
  3. Recruitment, Selection and Talent Acquisition
  4. Employee Onboarding and HR Records Management
  5. Employment Law and Workplace Compliance in PNG
  6. Performance Management and Employee Development
  7. Learning, Training and Career Development
  8. Employee Relations, Discipline and Grievance Handling
  9. Remuneration, Benefits and Workplace Wellbeing
  10. HR Information Systems, Analytics and Professional Practice

Each module contains written lessons, a video, a knowledge quiz and a practical assignment. Modules are released sequentially: you complete one before the next opens. The course concludes with a final examination, a practical project and a portfolio.

How you are graded

  • Module quizzes: 20%
  • Practical assignments: 30%
  • Final examination: 20%
  • Final project: 30%

An overall result of 70% is required to pass.

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