The Nigerian Institute Of Personnel ManagementThe Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) of Nigeria has its offices in Lagos. It represents Nigeria in the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations as a member country. This Nigerian Institute Of Personnel Management is authorized by Nigerian law to regulate the practice of management of human resource in Nigeria. To enable it to do so, it has set up highly ethical benchmarks, best practices, and standards in personnel management and enforces them strictly. It encourages its members to obtain the requisite personnel management skills and knowledge and apply them in their careers. It even raises the standards periodically to keep abreast of world developments in personnel management. It maintains a register of members and lists the members through its publications. It offers three categories of membership, namely individual, honorary, and corporate. The different professional grade members of the institute have designations named Fellow FCIPM, Full Member MCIPM, and Associate ACIPM. The Fellow designation is the highest of the three offered designations. Individual membership of the institute is offered in 6 grades. Three of them are non-professional and the other three are professional grades. The 3 non-professional grades of membership have the designation of student, affiliate, and graduate respectively. Professional status of membership is granted after a non-professional member either passes some qualifying exams or performs a core HR function for an extended time period. Professional membership of the institute helps a personnel manager chart a clear career path and scale new highs in it. To become a professional member of the institute, you will have to register at CIPM and pass the CIPM exams. If you want, you can also register for the virtual classes (e-class) conducted by CIPM to enable you to cover the qualifying exam course. The minimum academic eligibility for the CIPM exam is the West African School Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level). You must have credits in 5 subjects out of which those in Mathematics and English language are mandatory. However, in case you have a Degree/HND (Higher National Diploma), simply having passed the two subjects will alternatively suffice. The CIPM exam curricula cover 2 Foundation level courses, 2 Intermediate level courses and 2 Professional level courses. Accordingly you need to pass 6 different exams, 2 each at the foundation, intermediate and professional levels. The Foundation I exam covers introductory topics in Management, Economics, Accounting, Sociology & Psychology, and Writing and Communication skills. The Foundation II exam covers the basics of Personnel Management and Industrial Relations. It also covers Nigerian Business Law, Government & Nigeria Legal System. It also covers Business Law, and Computer Applications & Management Information Systems. The Intermediate I &II and the Professional I & II exams cover higher level topics. Some of them include Business Administration, Economics, Finance & Accounting, Operations Research, and Nigerian Labor Law. The Nigerian Institute of Personnel Management conducts three professional training programs. These include the MCPE (Mandatory Continuing Professional Exam), the PCP (Professional Certification Programme), and the APCP (Associate Professional Certification Programme). |