People Management: Mastering the Art of Leadership
March 17, 2025
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The aim of this course is to give you a practical guide to managing people at work. It does not matter whether you are a first time manager in a shop or a middle manager in an office environment; the same skills apply to every work place. In the course you will engage with some HR theories and then see how they translate into every day working life.
At the end of the course we hope you will be better equipped to choose a suitable employee, to motivate and appraise your team, to manage conflict in the work place and to lead and make decision on a day to day basis.
The first week gives you a chance to do some preparatory reading which will give you a good general overview of the subject area before the teaching starts in week 2.
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This week we will be focusing on the role of the interview, how to conduct a good interview as well as looking at options to the interview and discussing whether it is the best method of selecting new members of staff.
5 videos1 reading6 assignments
This week we are looking at the role of the leader in the organization and how we can improve our to improve our decision making.
6 videos3 readings6 assignments
This week we are looking at how a well designed performance management system can help both the employee and the organis ation.
5 videos3 readings6 assignments1 peer review
This week we are looking at how important pay is as a motivator and the implications of this. Could it be that it may actually achieve the opposite?
6 videos1 reading7 assignments
Is conflict always bad? This week we are looking at the causes of conflict and how to manage it for a positive outcome.
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Reviewed on Aug 15, 2021
I found it useful, I have come from engineering and management doesn't always come naturally so this is a good course to go through if you find yourself having to manage people as well as tech!
Reviewed on Jul 14, 2020
Thank you to all the professors. The course is very practical ways for young managers like me in dealing with my subordinates in the organization that I am handling for the past 3 years now.
Reviewed on Aug 23, 2022
this was very informative and intersring cousrse especily for thoe who work as manager. we like seen forward for such interting and knowlede based course in future thank you University of Londan.
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