Recruitment and selection
The recruitment process
Selection methods and their effectiveness
Dismissing staff: what are the responsibilities of managers?
Retaining staff

Selecting the right people is possibly the most important function of a manager. The future of any organisation depends on the quality and suitability of the people working for it. New people who do not share the values or the culture of the organisation are going to present ongoing problems of integration and management.

Job design—what you already know
Job analysis: understanding existing jobs
Trends in the nature of work
Competencies
Alternative work arrangements
What does this mean for the people manager?

What are industrial and employee relations?
Why is IR important for people management?
The major players in IR
Industrial relations in Australia
International industrial relations
Employee relations

Communication revisited
The importance of communication
Effective communication
The importance of negotiation
Different approaches to negotiation: distributive and integrative bargaining
The process and tactics of negotiation

What are power and politics?
Organisations as political systems
Dimensions of power: resources, process, meanings and systems
Power and people management

Employment and workplace law revisited
Organisations and legal frameworks
Australia
The European Union
The United States
Legislation in the Asia Pacific region
What managers of people must do

What is 'people management'?
People management in a climate of change
The importance of people management

The first line states; "People management is about managing people" (and project management is about managing projects, operations management is about managing operations and tautology management is about managing tautologies.) Thanks for that!

People management is a subset of human resource management, which deals with strategic, financial and policy issues, as well as people management.

Prior to 2000, Unit 402 was titled Human Resource Management. As human resource management (HRM) has for many come to mean a defined staff support function and group within an organisation, Contemporary People Management was seen as a more appropriate unit title, reflecting a changed approach to how people are commonly managed in organisations today.

Topic 1: What is 'people management' and why does it matter?
Topic 2: The legal environment for managing people

Innovation does not necessarily require advanced technology. Innovation can create an advantage by applying an old technology or the same technology as the competition in an innovative manner that adds more customer-perceived value. Systematic innovation is a purposeful and organised search for ways to change aspects of the organisation in order to gain and/or sustain competitive advantage. It requires a systematic analysis of any opportunities that changes might offer for technological, social, organisational or business process improvement.