SHRM Global Learning System - Global HR Management

This class will be offered in February or March, 2009. Call or email to be added to the mailing list.
EMU-Livonia, 38777 W. Six Mile Rd., Suite 400, Livonia
$995 (includes books and materials)

The entire field of human resources has experienced tremendous change in the past decade. Nowhere has this change been more profound than in Global Human Resource Management. As an HR professional, your responsibilities may expand beyond domestic regulations, strategies, and practices to global guidelines, restrictions, and policies. Get the necessary knowledge, skills and perspectives to be successful in this worldwide open market. This instructor led course will use the SHRM Global Learning System(TM), a comprehensive test preparation system for the Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR) certification exam and a reference tool for HR professionals with international and cross-border responsibilities.

Who should take the course:
The Global Learning System is designed for HR professionals with at least two years of practical HR job experience. The primary focus is the global practice and application of human resources.

Learning Materials:
The SHRM Global Learning System is a blend of educational media and teaching methods. It uses each medium for its strongest educational impact to provide effective and interactive training. The learning materials include books, CD-ROM learning activities, web and webcasts, and test preparation.

Test Preparation:
The SHRM Global Learning System helps you prepare for the GPHR certification exam. First, the learning system materials are designed and built from the same test specifications used to create the GPHR certification exam. And second, the learning system contains a number of online sample tests based on these specifications. The SHRM Global Learning System also includes a testing game to add elements of fun and enjoyment to exam preparation.

Six Modules: Each of the six modules includes a comprehensive book that explains in detail key terms, leading principles and practical examples, and contains a number of charts and checklists that can be quickly accessed and learned. The books can be used both for initial training and as a reference tool during daily business operations.

Strategic HR Management
Learn how to develop a global HR strategy that successfully integrates your company's strategy to meet its short-and long-term business needs. Key topics and issues include global HR competencies, the Global Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton), and attracting and developing global talent.

Global Organizational Effectiveness and Employee Development
Learn how to establish organizational structures, programs and processes to deploy and utilize employees to achieve current and future worldwide objectives. Learn how culture affects all aspects of a global business. Global organizational development programs are presented, along with differences that pertain across cultures. Key topics and issues include international negotiations, virtual global teams, human and social capital in the global enterprise, and performance management in the global organization.

Global Staffing
Learn how to plan, develop, implement and evaluate staffing initiatives on a worldwide basis to ensure that the organization's business, and strategic goals and objectives are met. Key topics and issues include external factors that impact staffing plans; succession plans, competency models and job descriptions; sources of global labor; recruitment and selection of global employees.

Global Compensation and Benefits
Find out the various cultural, business, economic, tax and legal factors that directly affect compensation and benefits programs. This treatment is followed by a more specific look at compensation and benefits programs for local nationals, new ventures, functional groups and international assignees.

Key topics and issues include balancing conflicting objectives for compensation and benefits programs, effect of cultural values on employees' perceptions of total compensation, and challenges presented by mergers, acquisitions and greenfield operations.

International Assignment Management
Learn how to establish international assignment strategy and policies. This includes planning, implementing, administering and evaluating all activities relating to international assignment and global mobility. Learn all facets of the process: assessment and selection, management and employee decisions, predeparture preparation, on assignment and completing the assignment.

Key topics and issues include expatriate cost projections, types of international assignment policies, repatriation patterns and issues.

International Employee Relations and Regulations
Learn about collective bargaining processes and strategies, compliance with statutory requirements, sensitivity to local workplace practices and security, the protection of physical and intellectual property, and the protection of individuals from harm. Learn various HR practices that differ by local laws and practices. These laws and practices must be understood on a country-by-country basis to ensure compliance. Key topics and issues include international and regional human rights and labor standards; applicability of U.S. laws to global enterprises; visas, work permits and employment contracts; antidiscrimination and equal treatment.

Instructors:

• Lance Richards, GPHR, Senior Director, International HR, Kelly Services
• Franchette Richards, GPHR, Independent Consultant in International HR
• Kathy Chiaravalli, GPHR, Managing Partner, Strategic HR, LLC
• Nancy Carrara, GPHR, International HR Manager, Deloitte Tax, LLP

A course investment of $995 includes the SHRM Global Learning System consisting of books, CD-ROM learning activities, web and webcasts, and test preparation.

Many companies pay for this course through tuition assistance or professional development budgets. Ask your employer if you qualify.

Take steps now to strengthen your ability to handle a wide-range of HR challenges. Both you and your employer will benefit from the knowledge and skills gained from the SHRM Global Learning System Program.

It's easy to register:
BY PHONE: Call (734) 487-0442. Credit card registrations only (MasterCard, VISA, Discover)
BY FAX: Send your completed registration form with major credit card information to (734) 487-2316.
BY MAIL: Complete the registration form (or photocopy) and send it with a check, copy of purchase order, or credit card information. Make checks payable to Eastern Michigan University and mail it to EMU Continuing Education, Non-credit Programs, 100 Boone Hall, Ypsilanti, MI 48197

For more information, contact Pat Breilein by calling (734) 487-9158 or sending an e-mail message to non.credit@emich.edu

GPHR Certification Exam:
Important Dates and Locations
Testing is offered at more than 250 Thomson Prometric testing centers in the U.S. and Canada, and 116 internationally.

See the web site www.hrci.org for more information about the certification exam.