ObjectivesStudents learn to adopt critical insights and develop the ability to recognise and handle multiple perspectives upon a situation - the intellectual 'higher order' skills increasingly recognised as essential for effective people management at a more senior, strategic level.
Entry requirementsA good UK Honours degree or overseas equivalent, or an equivalent professional qualification. Fast-track applicants must also demonstrate successful recent academic achievement in HRM study, such as the Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel anagement or a Masters level qualification in which the study of HRM was a major component.
Academic titleMA Human Resource Management
Course descriptionProgramme
As well as providing continual personal development opportunities for existing UK and international HR practitioners, the programme is designed to accommodate non-HR managers and professionals actively engaged in the strategic management of people in the UK and overseas. Following an induction module, students complete a number of core and optional modules, plus a dissertation. Core modules are HRM: the Theory and Practice of Managing People, Employment Relations: Themes and Issues and HRM Research Methods, Assumptions, and Paradigms.
Full-track students study all three core modules. Fast-track students study HRM Research Methods, Assumptions and Paradigms. Typical optional modules may include:
-Strategic Human Resource Management
-The Management of Organisational Change
-Human Resource Development and Management Development
-International and Comparative Human Resource Management
-Developing Strategic Leadership
-Employment Law.
Full-track students study four optional modules over the two years and fast-track students study one optional module. All students undertake a dissertation under the supervision of a member of the HRM team.