Course detail & modules
Businesses around the world are finding that their future success depends on having a workforce that possesses social, cognitive, and emotional skills. This course will develop the following employability skills and appropriate attitudes to enable you to excel and be successful throughout your career
Business Awareness
Collaboration and Teamwork
Communication
Innovation and Problem Solving
Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Leadership and Global Citizenship
Personal Development and Management
Emotional Intelligence
Digital Literacy
Developing these skills means you’ll be in high demand for roles in the public, private and third sectors with competitive salaries and excellent prospects for career progression.
Year 1 (Level 4)
In the first year, you will develop your skills and knowledge in gathering and analysing data as a people professional.
You will develop skills and an understanding of how people data offers the opportunity to contribute to an organisation’s strategy by creating insights on what people can do to drive change. You will also gain an insight into the framework of analysis on how organisations promote equality and diversity whilst managing and developing their workforce.
Data Analytics for People Professionals
Equality Diversity and Inclusions in Society and Organisations
Managing and Developing People
In the second semester, you will understand the complexities of corporate social responsibility and the way digital HR works in managing and measuring progress at different stages of the employee life cycle.
You will also develop practical skills on how to effectively apply a range of tools and techniques when working with different stakeholders to increase their readiness for change.
Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
Digital Working
Influencing Stakeholders
Year 2 (Level 5)
As you progress through Level 5, you will develop a deeper understanding and skills for people management practices. We will cover:
In the first semester, you will learn the complexities of employment regulation and the way it informs HR practitioners to ensure employees are treated fairly, as well as how to promote equal opportunities, anti-discriminatory practices, and manage workplace diversity and inclusion.
Further, you will understand the relationship between those involved in shaping the employment relationship for effective service delivery. The international context of HRM will provide insight into specific issues involved in HRM in multi-national firms and how to deal with them as an HR professional
Employment Law
HR Professional Practice and Service Delivery
International Business Context of HRM
The second semester will focus on how rewards, incentives and performance are developed and managed globally. You will also understand and develop skills on how to create HR practices to engage and retain staff. This will equip you with different aspects of organisational behaviour and psychological theories which can be applied for improving staff turnover rate. In Research Methods you will understand and develop skills and specific procedures for collecting and analysing data for research projects in their final year of study.
Global Perspective in Performance and Reward Management
Psychology and Employee Engagement
Research Methods
Year 3 (Level 6)
In your final year (Level 6), you will explore human resource management at a strategic level.
This approach will develop your critical thinking skills and application skills while exposing you to contemporary challenges and issues in the contemporary world of work.
The first semester of the final year offers a comprehensive cover and integration of human resource management into the strategic thinking, direction setting, planning and operation of the organisation. You will also develop your skills as an HR consultant, identifying contemporary business issues, developing methods, and preparing business reports for specific HR consultancy projects.
Strategic HRM
Consultancy in HRM
Contemporary Business issues in HR context
In the second semester, you will develop your leadership skills within your HR practice context, including developing your knowledge and understanding of organisational culture and change. You will also have the opportunity to work on a live consultancy project for a real business, offering you the practical experience of applying the theory to practice.
Leadership and Change Management
Consultancy in HRM
You will also choose one of the following 20-credit optional modules:
Managing small and medium-sized enterprises where students will evaluate a small business and develop a growth or development strategy for the business.
In Knowledge Management you will explore the methods, techniques and circumstances in which knowledge management principles can be applied.
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