Twelve (12) Staff Members (Cohort one) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have successfully gone through and received certification in Human Resource (HR) Professional Training with EUZEB Training Consult.
The training which commenced in February is to aid the participants in preparation towards SPHRI Examination to becoming HR professionals and to equip them with the unique skills and body of HR knowledge.
Addressing the 12 participants at a dinner held in their honour at the Senior Club House here at UCC, the Executive Director of EUZEB Training Consult, Mr. Michael Funtror revealed that Human Resource Management and its practice is a specialized area of management that is basically concerned with people or employees who are deemed the most important assets in an organization.
He said there is ample evidence that managing human beings in an organization can be a very daunting task and this he according to him re-echoes the need and the essence of acquiring the needed skills to be able to carry this task professionally and successfully.
“……. contemporary HR practice is becoming a daunting task due to varied factors; technological advancement, impact of globalization, changing regulatory issues, cultural diversity, frequent shifts in core business process, restructuring and diversity, ……., talent war and increased competition for senior managers, coupled with consumer market and trade agreements glare with in the face of the HR practitioner. These definitely call for HRs to realign in order to ensure return on investment in their organizations, culminating in a clean balance sheet,” he said.
The Executive Director of EUZEB Training Consult also called on HRs to become strategic partners of their organizations in order to ensure profitability and to know and understand the business of their organizations.
According to him, the job market is getting toxic day after day because Politics has held bond the effective exercise of the skills and due process of HRs in the selection of job applicants. He asserts that aside divine mercies and providence, job applicants can only resort to the acquisition of professional certificates in order to gain competitive advantage over their peers in the job search.
In view of this, Mr. Funtror challenged UCC to integrate the acquisition of PHRi and SPHRi certification programmes into the academic calendar of level 400 and MBA students of HR in the University.
“In a matter of twelve weeks of meeting once a week, these students would have been adequately prepared to take the examinations, hence by the time they are done with their academic programmes, they would have been certified and become professionals in the discipline,” he asserted.
On his part the Registrar of UCC, Mr. Jeff Teye Emmanuel Onyame reiterated the need for all university staff to acquire professional qualifications in addition to academic qualification.
“It is not for nothing that here at the university, especially for administrative and professional senior members, we have saying that in addition to academic qualifications, you must have professional qualifications. That is what is in the current criteria for appointments and promotions. So professional qualification is very important for us. It is not enough to have your academic qualifications because we think you need to have that professional out to do the things you need to do as an administrator”.
He however pledged his commitment to that effect.
“I think we should be able to sign some MoU for you, where students, of course, get exemptions and even charter while they are still students. Students of HR and management for that matter can also take advantage of this and charter while they are in school, Of course, for as long as I’m registered, I will ensure that that is the way we”.
Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
