PHR and SPHR Certification Study Course

Develop leadership and strategic management skills by mastering mission and vision statements, SMART goals, SWOT, budgeting, and the strategic planning process.

Explore leadership and strategy concepts, including transformational and transactional leadership, strategic planning, balanced scorecard models, and project management tools such as Gantt charts and the critical path.

Explore key HR and global management terms, including cultural determinism and cultural relativism, risk matrices and ISO risk definitions, and ethnocentric to transnational models guiding global HR strategy.

Explore strategic planning foundations, from environmental scanning and swot to porter’s five forces, then formulate, implement, and evaluate strategies across hr, operations, and leadership.

Explore global HR and strategic management concepts, including ethnocentric/polycentric/geocentric staffing, balancing global integration with local responsiveness, and evaluating strategies like cost leadership, differentiation, and vertical integration.

Explore how firms achieve global competitive advantage through a transnational strategy that blends global standardization with local responsiveness, using joint ventures and strategic alliances to operate worldwide.

Explore types of organizational structures, including centralized and decentralized designs, and learn how specialization, formalization, chain of command, and span of control shape efficiency and agility.

Learn how corporate social responsibility integrates ethics, governance, and sustainability across people, planet, and profit, guided by OECD and UN Global Compact frameworks and a six-step CSR process.

Master talent planning and acquisition concepts from federal employment law, including adverse impact, OFCCP requirements, EEO-1 reporting, and the fair credit reporting act governing background checks.

Explore talent planning and acquisition through job analysis, job descriptions and specifications, and compliance with key laws, valid testing, and accommodations.

Examine talent planning and acquisition through employment laws, background checks and fair reporting, with adverse impact analysis, four-fifths rule, EEOC mandates, and EO 11246 Okpe requirements for federal contracts.

Explore broadband pay structures and merit-based pay, their legal implications under the Equal Pay Act, and topics like adverse impact, job analysis, and succession planning in talent planning and acquisition.

Discusses interview design, job analysis, and testing validity and reliability; covers bias, civil rights acts, background checks, accommodations, and labor regulations in talent planning and acquisition.

Explore reliability and validity in employment testing, including test retest, internal consistency, criterion validity, and the Uniform Guidelines for fair, job-related selection.

Explore how Title VII governs employment discrimination, distinguishing disparate treatment from disparate impact, and examine protected classes, BFOQ, and enforcement agencies.

Explore pregnancy discrimination in the workplace through Title VII and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the PWFA, and the ADA, including reasonable accommodations, leave, and confidentiality of medical records.

Total rewards integrates direct and indirect compensation, including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity, guided by job evaluation, market pricing, and legal frameworks like FLSA, ERISA, HIPAA, and ACA.

Explore how ERISA sets private retirement plan standards, compare defined benefit and defined contribution plans, and explain vesting, participation, and PBGC guarantees.

Explore total rewards concepts, including defined benefit and defined contribution plans, golden parachutes, health accounts and flexible spending accounts, direct and indirect compensation, and FLSA exemptions.

Explore ERISA basics, fiduciary duties, plan information and protections for defined benefit and defined contribution plans, SPD requirements, PBGC insurance, and amendments such as COBRA and HIPAA.

Understand the fair labor standards act (FLSA) covering minimum wage, overtime, recordkeeping, and child labor across employees; learn exemptions, salary basis, and exemption status.

Understand FMLA eligibility, duration, and notices, including 12 weeks for most leaves, 26 weeks for military caregiver leave, and eligibility criteria like 1250 hours and 50 employees within 75 miles.

Learn essential labor relations concepts for HR certification, including USERRA reemployment rights, Taft-Hartley provisions, and ADR versus litigation strategies. Explore OSHA penalties, hazard communication, and open vs right-to-work topics.

Explore core labor and employee relations concepts, including ADR processes, union representation, collective bargaining, and key acts such as the NLRA and Taft-Hartley.

Examine employee engagement, labor relations, and union dynamics through work-life programs, safety regulations, and NLRB processes to inform strategic HR decisions.

Explore key US labor laws, including at-will employment, NLRA protections, union organizing, bargaining units, strikes, and major acts like Sherman, Clayton, Norris-LaGuardia, Wagner, Taft-Hartley.

Explore learning and development through case studies and real world scenarios, examine performance appraisal methods, training design, evaluation, and the role of learning organizations in continuous improvement.