Performance, Assessment and Rewards ManagementModule Details

Rationale

The Performance, Assessment and Rewards Management course provides students with a range of theoretical knowledge to get an idea of the actual processes, their tools, their techniques, the important parameters involved and the ways they are implemented within specific organisational contexts in which they might operate. The main objective of the course is to present and examine these concepts and their practical application, to provide students with the necessary skills to create a contemporary and complete performance and rewards framework for their future employers that is supportive of the organisational model. 

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students will be expected to:

(i)    Examine theoretical debates informing reward and performance management.
(ii)   Set reward and performance management in the wider context of organisational management.
(iii)  Communicate strategic reward and performance aims, objectives, priorities and targets.
(iv)  Plan effective reward and performance management policies and practices to improve organisational and employee performance.
(v)   Design consistent reward structures that recognise labour market and equity constraints.
(vi)  Suggest key issues in the effectiveness of reward and performance management.
(vii) List the basic factors determining pay rates.
(viii) Provide examples of how to conduct a job evaluation.
(ix)  Outline the main employees’ services benefits.