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Labour Relations Management Courses In South Africa:

Skills Diploma Labour Relations Management (DIP4012-03)

Oxbridge Academy’s diploma in Labour Relations Management consists of Labour Relations Management 1, Labour Relations Management 2, Legal Principles and Management Principles.

What is Labour Relations Management?

Labour Relations can be defined as the activities performed by the labour relations department that help managers make the best use of personnel to attain business objectives. This involves a number of important activities:

• Providing the business with the appropriate labour, which includes labour relations planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, placement and orientation.
• Maintaining labour relations, which includes factors such as conditions of service and remuneration (pay).
• Developing labour relations, which includes staff training and skills development.

Skills needed by labour relations personnel:

• Negotiation skills.
• Active listening skills.
• Communication skills.
• Critical thinking to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.
• Reading comprehension
• Good mathematics skills - Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Information gathering.
• Writing skills.
• Problem identification.
• Time management for oneself and others.
• Identification of downstream (long-term) consequences of given operations.
• Envisioning how systems should work.
• Persuasion.
• Judgment and decision making.
• Identification of key causes and changes required to achieve goals.

What you will learn in our Labour Relations Management Course

• Labour Relations Management.
• How Labour Relations works.
• Important legislation.
• How to implement labour relations.
• Labour Relations strategies.
• Labour Relations planning.
• How the Labour Relations Act works.
• Important legislation.
• Performance appraisals.
• The origins of our legal system.
• How to differentiate between statute and common law.
• Divisions of the law and their relevance.
• How courts function.
• Management.
• How managers work.
• Principles of delegation.
• How to implement successful job design.

Who will benefit from our Labour Relations Management Course?

Our Labour Relations Management course will benefit anyone currently working in the labour relations industry and who wants to improve their chances of promotion, as well as students who can’t afford to go to university, but who want the knowledge and understanding required to make them employable.

What qualification will I have after I have completed my Labour Relations Management Diploma?

The Oxbridge Academy Labour Relations Management Diploma is a career-orientated skills programme which is provider developed and assessed. The diploma is issued by Oxbridge Academy and endorsed by the South African Institute of Management (SAIM). After completion of the course students will be competence in the area of Labour Relations Management.

This diploma in Labour Relations Studies consists of the following modules:

  Labour Relations Management 1
  Labour Relations Management 2
  Legal Principles
  Management Principles

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