Course introduction: Whether you’re contemplating a career in business, or currently working and looking to upgrade your qualifications, our MSc Business Management (HRM) will equip you with the practical skills and expertise to advance your career. You’ll gain a sound understanding of business and human resource management (HRM) theory, including the skills needed to successfully manage and motivate staff, real issues faced by contemporary human resource managers, and international HRM. Sharing much of its content with MSc Business Management, this course offers you the opportunity to pursue a specialism in HRM, opening doors to increased career opportunities at postgraduate level.
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Craiglockhart Campus, EH14 1DJ
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An Honours degree at 2.2 or above. Comparable alternative qualifications or professional qualifications and experience may also be considered. If English is not your first language, it is usually required that you sit an English language test in order to gain entry onto our postgraduate programmes. This course requires the standard IELTS 6.0 with no individual component score of less than 5.5 or equivalent. Our entry requirements indicate the minimum qualifications with which we normally accept...
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Management
Business and Management
Sound
International
Global
HRM
Resource Management
IT Management
Skills and Training
Course programme
Addressing the essentials of modern business, this course has been designed to develop personal and professional skills of independent thinking, critical analysis and reflective learning. You’ll gain a sound theoretical grounding in business and management theory with a focus on HRM and stimulate an enquiring, analytical approach to several subject areas. This will widen the application of your business management skills to include a range of career routes in human resource management. Our course materials are based on real issues faced by contemporary businesses, covering topics ranging from creativity in business to global economics, strategic management and organisational change management. You’ll learn to creatively address issues such as competition and sustainability and acquire knowledge of the global economic and business environment. You’ll develop leadership and team development skills and an understanding of management and organisational methods. Guest speakers add value to this course, which is updated regularly to reflect current business issues. This is a full-time course split into three trimesters. You can choose to start in either January or September. You’ll learn by a variety of teaching methods including lectures, tutorials and independent study. Recent graduates, continuing students, management practitioners, business professionals, international applicants and aspiring entrepreneurs can all benefit from this course, which is intended to appeal to people of all ages and from a broad spectrum of backgrounds and experience. Subjects include Sustaining Organisational Performance Global Economic Environment and Marketing Organisational Change and Management Leadership, Strategy and Innovation Contemporary Human Resource Management Human Resource Management in an International Context Research Methods Dissertation
Study modules mentioned above are indicative only. Some changes may occur between now and the time that you study. You can view a list of all current modules in our module catalogue.
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In recent years, students have come to our MSc courses with degrees from many different disciplines, and have gone on to build careers in a range of industries in the public, private and voluntary/not-for-profit sectors.
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