Course summary
If you want to develop a career in the broad field of human resource management, employment relations, training & development, performance management, reward management, recruitment, selection, and consultancy, then this course is for you. As well as receiving an academic qualification you can also gain professional membership to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Focusing on contemporary, critical and applied themes in the subject area, the course gives you the opportunity to develop the knowledge and understanding necessary for the appropriate analytical, technical and behavioural responses to these issues. The course will also develop your practitioner skills and you will learn how research and practice work together. This is an advanced HRM course and the modules look at strategic as well as operational issues. We also offer a PGDip in Human Resource Management which has CIPD accreditation.
Modules
Modules include: human resource management practice and perspectives A; industrial relations: theory and practice A; organisational behaviour: theory and practice A; postgraduate research methodology for HRM A; strategic human resource management A. Optional modules: comparative employment relations A and B; cross cultural communication and negotiation; dissertation: human resource management A; employment law semester B; HRM dissertation/management research report A; human resource management research report A; international and comparative human resource management B; leadership and management development B; managing across cultures; people resourcing B; remuneration strategy and practice B.
Assessment method
Assessment is based on presentations, reports, projects and a dissertation.
Entry requirements
An Honours degree (2.2 or above); or 2 or more years' relevant work experience; applicants whose 1st language is not English require an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent, or 6.0 on completion of the University's 4 week English course.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
AL10 9AB