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Managing Personal Competencies

Iain S. Henderson and Martin Dowling

The primary aim of this course is to help students acquire both a range of generic competencies relating to personal effectiveness, such as self-awareness and reflection, self-management, communication, leadership and influencing and managing the performance of others; and a series of competencies relating to the key human resource functions, such as recruitment and selection, change management, negotiating and bargaining and handling conflict.

The generic competencies include:

  • self-awareness and reflection;
  • self-management;
  • communication;
  • leadership and influencing; and
  • managing the performance of others.

The competencies regarding HR functions include:

  • Competencies for people management: change management and teamworking.
  • Competencies relating to acquiring staff: human resource planning, recruitment and selection.
  • Competencies relating to maintaining and developing staff: learning and development, employee relations (negotiation, bargaining, discipline and grievance and dispute resolution).