ORIENTATION

A well-crafted Workplace Employee Guidebook (WEG) is a great asset for an organisation. This course is a practical guide to developing, communicating and managing an employee Guidebook suitable for your organisation.  The course also explores how the Workplace Employee Guidebook can be used to influence your organisation’s culture as well as to clearly communicate policy and procedures. The course further takes a look at typical topics for inclusion, its relationship with the employee’s contract of employment and other guidance manuals in use by organisations.   

SYLLABUS

1. The Ground Rules
   1. Introduction
   2. Strategy Policy and Procedure
   3. Audiences
   4. Purpose
   5. Time to Reflect
2. The Breadth of the Workplace Employee Guidebook
   1. Introduction
   2. Culture and Values
   3. Standards
   4. Employee Journey
   5. Time to Reflect
3. Contract versus Workplace Employee Guidebook
   1. Introduction
   2. Contract of Employment
   3. The Employee Guidebook
   4. Time to Reflect
4. Developing and Managing a Workplace Employee Guidebook
   1. Introduction
   2. Identify Materials
   3. Use of Templates v Bespoke
   4. Participants and Responsibilities
   5. Costs
   6. Big Bang or Incremental
   7. Updating and Managing an Existing Workplace Employee Guidebook
   8. Time to Reflect
5. Communications and Media
   1. Introduction
   2. Tone
   3. Writing Content
   4. Media
   5. Time to Reflect
6. Other Types of HR Guidebook
   1. Introduction
   2. Relationship between Documents
   3. Managers’ Guidance
   4. HR ‘Bible’
   5. Training Manual
   6. Time to Reflect
7. Risks and How to Overcome
   1. Introduction
   2. One Hit Wonder
   3. Quality of Content
   4. Communications
   5. Unexpected Consequences
   6. Take Control
   7. Time to Reflect

• References and Further Help
• Figures

DURATION OF THE COURSE

The course could typically be completed within 1 - 3 days depending on the commitment and effort of the student. An online test assessment will be scheduled as soon as the student has communicated his/her readiness to the Online Tutor to take the examination. The pass rate for this course is 60%.

STUDY METHODOLOGY

Students access the prescribed Study Manual and the Online Test Assessment by clicking on the link in the left column of the Student Dashboard. The student will be activated for the next Course upon completing the Online Test Assessment.

ONLINE TEST ASSESSMENT

The Online Test Assessment consist of a combination of multiple-choice, true-false as well as assignment-format questions.  

ACADEMIC PROGRESSION

Students who have successfully completed the Certificate in Workplace Employee Guidebook (L3Cert.Skill) may progress to the Diploma in Higher Education Access (L3Dip.HEA) in order to access the EduVisa UK Bachelor/Masters Degree Programme or alternatively continue to specialise in the subject matter by registering towards the Professional Diploma in Human Resources Management (L6PDip.Man) (SA) (IQF).

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

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