HR Institute Confers Chartered Status on 304 Professionals

Cihrm Confers Chartered Status On Members Graduates Associate Members

The Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management, Ghana (CIHRM) held its 15th Conferral and 19th Graduation ceremonial successful Accra connected Friday, November 28, 2025, conferring Chartered presumption connected 25 caller members and graduating 279 Associate members successful the 2nd batch of credentials awarded this year.

Speaking astatine the ceremony, Dr. Francis Eduku, Chief Executive Officer of CIHRM, announced that the latest cohort pushes the institute’s Chartered Human Resource Management Practitioners from 399 successful 2024 to 452 by the extremity of 2025. The Associate Member number rises from 2,237 to 2,686 implicit the aforesaid period.

“Today, we are conferring a Chartered Human Resource Management Practitioner presumption connected 25 students who person completed the Level Four program, and 279 Level Three students who successfully passed their exams volition besides articulation our noble Institute arsenic Associate Members,” Eduku said.

The CEO emphasized CIHRM’s committedness to elevating subordinate competencies done strategical partnerships with planetary nonrecreational bodies. He highlighted an October 2025 statement with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 1 of the world’s largest HR nonrecreational organizations based successful the United States.

Under the concern terms, CIHRM members successful bully lasting entree SHRM resources astatine substantially reduced rates compared to non members. While modular SHRM planetary rank costs 118 US dollars annually, CIHRM members wage conscionable 10 US dollars, representing a savings of 108 US dollars. The institute negotiated a peculiar 3 twelvemonth subscription priced astatine 30 US dollars for its members, versus 354 US dollars for those extracurricular the CIHRM network.

Eduku urged each members to instrumentality vantage of the discounted statement earlier it expires connected January 31, 2026, noting the entree provides cutting borderline toolkits, templates, checklists, manuals, policies, procedures, and probe materials.

Mrs. Florence Hutchful, President of CIHRM, challenged recently credentialed HR practitioners to exemplary subject and professionalism, with peculiar accent connected punctuality. She described chronic lateness arsenic a captious nationalist situation affecting organizational ratio and economical productivity.

“Lack of order, and successful particular, the wide disregard for time, has resulted successful chronic lateness. It is the adjacent large situation we indispensable face arsenic a nation, 2nd lone to the menace of galamsey, if we are to marque appreciable advancement successful nationalist development,” Hutchful stated.

She appealed to caller Chartered Members and Associate Members to perpetrate to transformative habits by showing up connected time, describing punctuality arsenic 1 of the simplest methods for gathering credibility and power wrong organizations.

The ceremony’s impermanent speaker, Dr. Irene Stella Agyenim Boateng, Vice Chairperson of the Public Service Commission, addressed the taxable “Unlocking HR Excellence: The Role of the New HR Practitioner.” She emphasized that modern organizations acquisition melodramatic shifts requiring HR practitioners to show greater adaptability and responsiveness.

“Unlocking HR excellence successful today’s dynamic workplace begins with adaptability, agility, and swift effect to some interior and outer stimuli. The workplace is nary longer static; globalization, technology, worker sophistication, assemblage scrutiny, and shareholder anticipation are perpetually reshaping it,” Agyenim Boateng explained.

She advised the recently credentialed practitioners to make organizational worth by empowering employees, shaping organizational strategies, anticipating disruptions, and pivoting with resilience erstwhile marketplace conditions shift.

The Society for Human Resource Management operates arsenic a nonrecreational relation serving astir 340,000 members crossed 180 countries, providing research, certification programs, and argumentation advocacy for workforce improvement issues.

The ceremonial drew attendance from Mrs. Dorothy Asare, Vice President of CIHRM, Dr. Edward Kwapong, Immediate Past President, Mrs. Anita Nanfuri, Chairperson of the Professional Certification Board, on with assembly members Mrs. Dora Siaw Lartey and Mrs. Louise Agyeman Barning, certification committee members, assets persons, and Level Four programme supervisors.