The human resource function in an enterprise embraces all activities concerned with the acquisition, retention and utilisation of suitable and sufficient personnel, in order to perform the functions of the enterprise as effectively as possible. The human resources manager generally acts as the interpreter and executor of the personnel policy.
Type: undergraduate diploma
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Personnel management
- Business management
- Accounting for personnel practitioners
- End-user computing
- Labour law
- Quantitative techniques
Second year subjects:
- Personnel management
- Business management
- Management of training
- Industrial relations
Third year subjects:
- Personnel management
- Business management
- Management of training
- Industrial relations
Careers: training official, labour relations officer, human resource manager/practitioner.
Source: www.cut.ac.za