Academics Programme

Leadership & Management

Human resource management

Address by the chief guest

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MUHAMMAD IQBAL                      

It is really helping me in excelling in my professional career. Now I am able to communicate well and better than before in English language. Hope you will continue these kinds of courses and introduce advance level courses too.

FAHEEM BAIG                     

During the diploma in English I had learnt a lot. Now it is helping me in my day-to-day office working as well as my routine life. After having this diploma my writing and reading skills have been improved significantly.

In 2003 NRSP-IRM spread out from skill enhancement to academics. We began with Executive Diploma in English Language Proficiency, which was designed for professionals for enhancement of interpersonal communication skills and for furtherance of their professional prospects. Five courses have so far been held and over a hundred students have successfully completed these courses.

The following were specially emphasized:

	Listening Skills
	Speaking Skills
	Reading Skills
	Writing Skills
	Vocabulary Skills
	Pronunciation/ Spelling
	Grammar

These diploma courses were largely attended by professionals from corporate and non corporate sectors. The feed back given by the professionals who have attended these courses was tremendously encouraging as the course enabled them to gain confidence for public speaking and improve their communication skills which in turn will give a boost to their careers.

In 2005, NRSP-IRM also conducted PGD courses in HRM and NGO Leadership and Management. The modules for the HRM included HR Planning; Recruitment Process; HRD; Compensation Management; HR Appraisal and Labour Laws. The other course included NGO Leadership, Development and Social Change; Management and Systems; NGO Capacity Building; Financial Resource Management; Policy Development and Advocacy and Inter organizational Relations.

The highly successful conduct of these programmes opened up the possibilities for IRM to seek linkages with universities of repute for joint Diploma and Degree Courses. We are in contact with four national universities for the purpose and hope to start, in addition to the PGDs, a post Graduate Degree Programme in Rural Development also.

The expansion of Academics programme has luckily coincided with the ongoing up gradation and modernization of Akhtar Hameed Khan Resource Centre.  AHKRC will provide vital resource back up support to the academics programme of NRSP-IRM.

NRSP-IRM plans to expand its Academics activities in line with Pakistan’s expanding need of development professionals to push forward the national thrust for ameliorating the lot of the underprivileged and for poverty alleviation.

Over the years Non Government Organizations, with their need based, target oriented approach have emerged as lead actor in the development arena. NGO sectors face increasing challenges to coordinate and monitor programmes, establish standards of good practices and collectively advocate with government on behalf of their grass roots constituents. To keep abstract with the growing demands of this burgeoning sector it is essential that NGO leaders, managers, development professionals equip themselves with the tools and techniques needed for effective management service delivery.

NRSP-IRM offer a six months post graduate diploma course in NGO leadership and management. This pertinent and innovative course sets to explain in considerable details, with the aid of numerous examples the key processes that encompass the management of NGOs. It bridges the knowledge and skill gap so as to address the needs of well managed and people oriented development organizations. Furthermore the course caters to the needs of all the leaders and professionals who are serving at high challenging positions and aspire to be dynamic and strong decision makers. This course considers individual leadership styles in the context of organizational and cultural needs.    

OBJECTIVES OF THE PGD ON NGO LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

	To allow the participants to find out their personal leadership styles and develop action plans for leadership that are best suited to their organizations.
	To orient participants about the processes of the strategic management, decision making, human resource management, financial structures and systems handling procedures in context of NGO setup.
	To describe major management functions and systems in NGO and to explore important issues in organizational design, governance and system management.
	To focus on the full range of NGO activities from mobilizing and organizing communities, developing and operating programmes, engaging in policy formulation and creating linkages and network.
	To introduce skills and tools for organizational assessment, diagnosis and performance evaluation.

Human Resource is an indispensable asset of any organization. The task of establishing or reshaping structures and multi dimensional organization, developing the new globalized, outcome-based and information-driven environment rests with human resource professionals.

The role of HR manager has progressed from administrative backend function to one that is dynamic and strategic in nature. The individuals in this continuously evolving profession have found themselves at a new frontier with greater authority and broader mandate.

To perform well in this redefined and expanded role HR professionals need to upgrade their skills and build their capacities. Innovativeness and good grasp over the tools of assessment are some of the skills that HR managers should be qualified in.Realizing the significance of human resource management as a complete discipline, IRM has developed a programme that is based on “on -job-experience”. This highly practical oriented six month course led to a diploma in “Human Resource Management”. The first batch graduated in September, 2005.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PGD IN HRM

HRM Diploma consists of five core modules and two additional modules that have been designed with the following objectives:

	To acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of modern practices in HRM.
	To acknowledge the importance of HR in facilitating an organization to meet its corporate objectives.
	To understand the dimensions of the management process within the organizations.
	To develop comprehensive knowledge and perception relating to HRM functions.
	To understand the social economic, legal, political and commercial environment in which HRM takes place.
	To familiarize the participants with the current and future HRM issues relevant to the changing world.
	To develop necessary functional HR skills for handling added HRM responsibilities.
	To equip the participants with tools for identifying HR needs of their organizations.
	To learn recruitment and selection techniques that are best suited to organizational needs.
	To develop and design motivational systems to improve performance.

ADDRESS BY THE CHIEF GUEST THE PGD DIPLOMA AWARDS CEREMONY

Mr. Arif Alauddin, AAR-UNDP congratulated NRSP-IRM on the successful completion of its PGD courses. He said that the countries which had invested more in their human resources are progressing at much faster pace as compared to those that are investing in other areas. He added that the countries which are paying attention to education at grass root levels are the one’s making progress in the real sense.

He said that NRSP-IRM has designed both the courses keeping in mind the needs of the professionals of development sector. He hoped that IRM will continue its efforts for human resource development and regularly introduce innovative and updated programmes. In conclusion, he extended his best wishes and good luck to the participants.     

• IRM is in contact with International Islamic University for starting a joint programme of Masters Degree in Rural Development/Poverty Studies.
   

• IRM is also in contact with the Hamdard University for affiliation of its Post Graduate
  Diplomas particularly in HRM and NGO Leadership and Management.