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MSc PG Dip Management Psychology

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    MSc 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time. Duration varies for PGDip.

Course Description

Take the next step in your career using psychology in the world of work to help effectively manage people, even if you’ve never studied psychology before.

You’ll learn about how we motivate employees, how we train them, how we recruit, how we design jobs, how we assess performance, how we manage well-being, how we lead, how we manage organisational change, and more. We also feature a module on managing diversity in the workplace. At Nottingham, we make sure the course has a practical focus and aim to improve your skills as a practitioner. That’s why you’ll also learn about consultancy as part of your studies.

You’ll also get a good grasp on research methods applicable to the workplace, something that is particularly valuable to future employers. You’ll be taught by research-active experts in the field, some of whom completed their own MScs at Nottingham.

By the end of the course, you should be ready to apply what you’ve learned to the real world of work.

Entry Requirements

2:1 in any degree

If you have an undergraduate degree (2:1 or above) that confers the graduate basis for chartership (GBC), you may be interested in MSc in Occupational Psychology instead.

If you have an undergraduate degree (2:1 or above) that does not give you the graduate basis for chartership (GBC), you may be interested MSc in Work and Organisational Psychology instead.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Some of our recent graduate destinations include:

  • Interactive Production Manager, P&G
  • Senior HR Manager, Global Energy Marketing, Hess Corporation
  • Assistant Director OD, United Lincolnshire Hospitals
  • Senior Training and Development Manager, UHL NHS Trust
  • Chief (Overseas Division), Japan Bio Science Laboratory
  • Human Resource Department Manager, Future Group (retail company), India

Module Details

MSc

  • Introduction to Management Psychology and Quantitative Workplace Data20 credits
  • Learning, Training and Development20 credits
  • Leadership, Engagement, and Motivation10 credits
  • Organisational Change and Development10 credits
  • Psychological Assessment at Work10 credits
  • Strategic Human Resource Management and Managing Diversity20 credits
  • Consultancy Skills10 credits
  • Introduction to Research Methods10 credits
  • Qualitative Research Methods10 credits
  • Applied Research Project

PG Dip

  • Introduction to Management Psychology and Quantitative Workplace Data20 credits
  • Learning, Training and Development20 credits
  • Leadership, Engagement, and Motivation10 credits
  • Organisational Change and Development10 credits
  • Psychological Assessment at Work10 credits
  • Strategic Human Resource Management and Managing Diversity20 credits
  • Consultancy Skills10 credits
  • Introduction to Research Methods

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