B.A. (Hons) Human Resource Management

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

Human resource management (HRM) is a key business area because attracting, training and retaining the right staff directly impacts on the performance of a business. Consequently, most organisations and companies invest in their human resources (HR) departments and smaller companies will either employ someone with HR knowledge or outsource this element of their business to a HR consultancy.

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Location

Start date

Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Building, All Saints, M15 6BH

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About this course

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Subjects

  • Management
  • Resource Management
  • IT Management
  • HRM

Course programme

Course Content

In Year 1 you will study course units in human resource management, that include understanding and managing people, information discovery, analysis and interpretation, finance and accounting information for managers and business skills.

In Year 2 you will continue to develop with course units in law and the employment relationship, business research and professional skills, learning and development, business and sustainability, and again you can select from a range of optional units that will enable to you specialise in a particular subject area.

If you opt for the four year sandwich route you will spend Year 3 in a salaried placement within a HRM environment.

In your final year you will take core units such as business psychology, contemporary perspectives on human resource management and global human resource management. You will also be able to choose the topic of your research project and choose another option, enabling you to tailor your degree according to your interests and career aspirations.

B.A. (Hons) Human Resource Management

Price on request