This course will extensive discuss:

• Reforms of labour administration
• Information and communication technologies: Benefits, challenges and applications in labour administration
• Performance management in labour administration
• Tools for technical cooperation

CONTENT:

Reforms of labour administration

• Implementation of the statutory minimum wage and measures
• Strategic change and reform management
• Restructuring of government departments and public agencies in Nigeria
• Administrative reforms in Nigeria: Recent evolution of labour inspection structures
• Restructuring of the public employment services in Nigeria
• Reforms in Nigeria: Challenges of coordination between the central and state governments

Benefits, challenges and applications in Labour administration

• Benefits, challenges and policy lessons of effective use of new technologies
• Mobile devices in labour inspection
• IT tools used in investigation of social fraud
• Protection of wages and other IT applications

Strategic Planning and Performance Management

• Setting and communicating performance objectives
• Identifying core behaviours that drive high performance
• Reviewing and assessing performance
• Reviewing different levels of performance
• Objectively assessing and rating performance
• Giving constructive and motivational feedback

Wrap-Up

• Labour administration as a sub-discipline of public administration
• Labour administration challenges and innovations in developing countries
• Creating a collaborative network
• Measures to extend labour administration to cover informal economy workers
• Legal framework and practical measures towards informal economy workers

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:

Nigeria - $3000
Ghana - $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000