This programme provides the opportunity to develop requisite underpinning values, core knowledge and behaviours to support access to the professional grades of CIPD membership. It will allow you to identify, develop and apply appropriate interpersonal, organisational and functional skills required to embark on a career in HRM as reflexive practitioner.
This programme integrates and explains the interrelationships between employment relation dynamics, legal, and strategic dimensions of managing and engaging people in organisations. It enables students to evaluate contemporary and future trends in HRM from critical perspectives. You will develop a critical understanding of Human Resource Management as a body of theory and practice and gives you the opportunity to become a graduate who can operate in a changing global context using a range of practical, analytical and in-depth research project skills.
Applicants will normally hold an undergraduate degree in any subject with a minimum pass of 2:2, or equivalent overseas qualification, or an equivalent professional qualification.
Students from the Human Resource Management MA programme have pursued careers in the NHS, oil companies, voluntary sector organisations, banking and finance retail.
Many have continued their academic studies to complete their PhD.
Core Modules:
Block 1: People Management: Leadership, Development and Analytics
Block 2: Managing Employment Relations in a Legal Context
Block 3: Sustainable Human Resource Management in the Contemporary and Global Context
Block 4: Employee Resourcing in the Changing World of Work
Block 5 & 6: Research Dissertation in Human Resource Management
A top 25 university in the Uni Compare rankings, we are also rated a 5-star ‘excellent’ institution by QS, a world leader in evaluating higher educati...