This course is the final core payroll course of the Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) designation.
Applied Payroll Management (APM) provides professionals with the opportunity to apply relevant management processes in a payroll department context. Benchmarking, best practices development and human resources skills - such as monitoring, assessing and supervising personnel - are utilized to enable the payroll professional to achieve organizational and career goals.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Payroll Management
Students enrolling at a post-secondary institution must first register with the school and pay the tuition fees. Students must also register with the National Payroll Institute and pay the Institute’s course fee, and membership fee, if applicable.
Upon completion of Applied Payroll Management, students should be able to:
- Define the legislative compliance role of a payroll professional, including how payroll can expand its role in an organization.
- Analyze payroll’s relationship with the finance, human resources and information technology departments in an organization.
- Participate in continuous improvement strategies through benchmarking and the application of best practices.
- Identify the processes required for evaluating, implementing and maintaining new payroll systems.
- Participate in the development of payroll employees through the use of cascading objectives, job design, professional development, succession planning and performance measurement.
- Develop personal and professional career plans.
- Demonstrate self-management using effective time and stress management strategies.
Online Courses: Online directly through the National Payroll Institute (excluding challenge)
The National Payroll Institute offers Online courses, which are primarily self-directed, meaning that, for the most part, there are no scheduled class times or lectures. Students work through the material at their own pace, however, must complete assignments, discussion questions, and exams by the dates communicated to them at the start of the course. Students are assigned an instructor and can email course-related questions to them at any time during the course.
In addition, there are instructor-student live “Check-in” sessions, scheduled at various intervals throughout the course. These live sessions are opportunities for students to meet virtually with their instructor, to ask any questions they might have about the content, and to understand more about the exam experience, including a review of the exams proctoring requirements. The sessions will be recorded for students who cannot attend
The assignments, the discussion activities, along with the exams have pre-determined due dates. All of the coursework is completed online through the Institute’s Learning Management System, Brightspace.
The online midterm and final exams are remote proctored through Integrity Advocate. The remote proctoring fee is included in the online course fee.
Live Courses: Post-Secondary Classroom and Virtual Classroom
Live, In-class and virtual courses, completed through a post-secondary institution, are directed by the post-secondary institution’s instructor. Students will attend and participate in classes and lectures at the same time as their peers.
The online midterm and final exams are remote proctored through Integrity Advocate. The remote proctoring fee is included in the classroom course fee.
Both an overall grade of 65% and a mark of at least 65% on the final exam are required to pass the course. An online grade report will be available four weeks after the official end date of the course. For confidentiality reasons, marks cannot be given by phone, fax or email.
Withdrawal Policy
Students who withdraw within the first three weeks of the term will receive a full refund from the National Payroll Institute, less a withdrawal fee of $100.00, plus applicable taxes.
PLP Designation Completion Timeline
Effective January 1, 2017, students must complete all of the PLP courses, including the transfer credit courses, within 5 years from the start of their first successful IPM course.
Maximum Course Attempts
Students are permitted a maximum of three attempts at any individual PLP course. In the event that a student fails a given PLP course three times (through the classroom, or online study option), they will no longer be permitted to register for the course.