New certificate designed to give managers psychological lift

Journal of Management Development

ISSN: 0262-1711

Article publication date: 1 December 2000

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(2000), "New certificate designed to give managers psychological lift", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 19 No. 10. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmd.2000.02619jab.002

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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New certificate designed to give managers psychological lift

New certificate designed to give managers psychological lift

Keywords Knowledge economy, Psychology, Managers

The first ever Psychology Management Certificate was launched by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Heriot-Watt University in September 2000. It has been created to respond to the growing demands on managers to get the best out of employees through better people management – of which psychology plays no small part. With people skills so high on every organisation's agenda the launch of the new certificate could not come at a better time. The emerging knowledge economy is placing a premium on developing people skills at a faster and faster rate and organisations which fail to respond risk being left behind in the race to compete.

Professor Chris Brotherton, Chair of the Faculty of Psychology of Management at the CIPD and Professor of Applied Psychology at Heriot-Watt University says, "This initiative draws on the psychological relationship between the manager and the employee. This relationship is set to become more important as managers use and rely on informal consultation practices to get greater employee involvement. As the recent CIPD report on employee relations suggests, this has an important influence on employee attitudes and overall organisational performance."

Professor Brotherton adds, "The certificate offers flexible continuing professional development in people management that is quality assured. It is practical, theoretical and varied; including eight module courses ranging from the 'Psychology of Managing Working Relationships' to the 'Psychology of Assessment and Selection"'.

Professor Brotherton concludes, "A certificate in the psychology of management is long overdue. Our modules will meet the increasingly sophisticated demands being placed on managers and will lead to a better understanding of people management, better relations with staff and a more productive workforce."

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