Bachelor of Commerce Honours

Apply educational knowledge, skills, principles and methods to exercise management functions required for a human resource manager at senior management level.

• Responding to the needs of the community
• Responding to business and industry needs
• In life-long learning and the appreciation of the value of education and society

Qualifiers will demonstrate knowledge, skills and applied competence in the field of study that provide opportunities for continued personal growth, gainful economic activity and rewarding contributions to society.

- Learners who register for this qualification can

• Learn from predominantly written material
• Communicate what they have learnt comprehensively in the medium of instruction
• Learn and take responsibility for their own progress
• Recognition of prior learning

The qualification recognizes formal and non-formal prior learning (incorporating experiential learning) at a Higher Education and Training Certificate Level 6 with specific reference to Commerce or a functional equivalent.

The planned combination of learning outcomes are integrated with critical cross-field outcomes for this Qualification

Practical Competency

The demonstrated ability/skill to achieve the major Skills/Applied Competency of the qualification.

Foundational Competency

The demonstrated understanding, by the Learner, of the embedded knowledge that underpins the end result/outcome.

Reflective Competency

The demonstrated ability/skill to integrate or connect our performances and to reflect on, evaluate and adopt the above competencies.

To successfully complete the qualification the learner will have to demonstrate his/her learning via module specific learning outcomes as well as critical cross-field learning outcomes.

Module specific outcomes will include capabilities relating to module knowledge and the understanding thereof within a management leadership context and capabilities relating to integrated knowledge and skills from a variety of disciplines within the management leadership field.

Critical cross-field outcomes will include those specified in the learning outcomes for approved modules in the certificate and as appropriate to the learner's field of practice.

1. Demonstrating and applying practical and theoretical knowledge of the total field of Industrial Psychology.
2. Analysing current organizational and human resource practices, systems, processes and procedures from a holistic perspective.
3. Planning and implementing a broad range of interventions which lead to more effective general functioning.
4. Demonstrating theoretical, practical and analytical skills regarding needs assessment and the satisfaction of organizational and individual needs.

The learner will be able to analyse and apply the basic principles relevant to the following

1. Bring about a fit between individual and organizational needs in the workplace.
2. Diagnose organizational effectiveness and apply appropriate interventions towards more effectiveness.
3. Assess job requirements and candidates capabilities.
4. Conduct independent and interdependent research projects which focus on job related issues.
5. Determine the nature and determinants of pre-shopping behaviour and post-shopping behaviour.
6. Evaluate the appropriateness of a broad range of psychological tests in varying job related situations.
7. Assess, diagnose and identify developmental issues at areas in work and organizational context.
8. Understand, explain, predict and change human behaviour in the workplace.

A learner should provide evidence of learning competency (knowledge, skills and attitude) by means of the following

1. Appropriate interventions conducted to rectify deficiencies in simulated context.
2. Independent and interdependent research conducted which focus on job related issues.
3. A written report on job related issues in the work place.
4. Compile human resource management policies in work and organizational context.
5. Report on psychometric results to reflect the information obtained with psychometric tests.
6. A script written according to set standards.

Integrated assessment

Competence is achieved, through continuous assessment by demonstrating the ability to achieve the outcomes of the Qualification.

• Written tests and examinations.
• Written assignments.
• Discussion groups.
• Case studies.

This will be supported by a module credit system, followed by a final exam on the modules for which credit was not obtained

Assessment documents are moderated to ensure that

• They conform to the scope and context of the competency as stipulated in the qualification
• They are constructed in such a way that the Assessor assesses the critical outcomes applied, during the Learners activity performances, towards achieving an outcome.

Assessments are

• To include confirmation of the Embedded Knowledge component to ensure that the Foundational Competency is achieved
• To be verified by Internal Verifiers to ensure valid, credible, true and fair results