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.
Synchronous Courses: Post-Secondary Classroom and Virtual Classroom
Blended courses, completed through a post-secondary institution, are synchronous courses and are directed by the instructor. Students will attend and participate in classes and lectures at the same time as their peers.
The online midterm and final exams are remotely proctored through Integrity Advocate.
Asynchronous Courses: Online directly through the National Payroll Institute
Online (Asynchronous) courses are self-directed, meaning students study and participate at their own pace. There is no scheduled class time and there are no lectures. Instead, students review the course content according to their own schedule. Students are encouraged to email the online instructor for any course related questions. The assignments, the individual and group activities, along with the exam, have pre-determined due dates. All of the coursework is completed online through the Institute’s Learning Management System.
The online midterm and final exams are remotely proctored through Integrity Advocate.
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.