BA (Hons) Human Resource Management

Module: 4HR002

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to discuss the nature of employee behaviour in the workplace, and to consider particularly the aims, expectations and ambitions employees might bring to organisations, and the choices available to organisations and managers in managing them. The module seeks to consider the view “from the bottom up”, as well as from the position of the manager. It will also provide students with the opportunity to reflect on their own attitudes, ambitions and motivation to work.

Module: 4BU006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the concept of learning, personal development planning and how through reflection they can improve on a range of study and employability skills to develop the confidence and positive attitude required for academic and career success in a business context. It addresses the need for students to receive structured guidance on how to become more self-aware, how they might learn and develop themselves to improve their personal performance and how to build on their strengths and development needs to enhance their employability.

Module: 4MK007

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module provides frameworks to understand the importance of marketing within the business environment. It demonstrates an understanding of the marketing tools an organisation will need to use in order to compete in today's dynamic market place.

Module: 5HR008

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

Skills development is of paramount importance for all professional practitioners.'Preparation for business' should be taken to mean the development of a range of specific business knowledge and skills, together with the improved self-awareness and personal development appropriate to graduate careers in business with the potential for management positions and to employability in general. This includes the encouragement of positive and critical attitudes towards change and enterprise, so as to reflect the dynamism and vibrancy of the business environment. In this module students will be introduced to the skills required of a HR profession, using relevant HR CIPD tools. The module content will cover research methods for creating a HR business proposal and for researching in the final year case study/project module. The module will introduce the use of reflective practice for the use of CPD.

Module: 5BE001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module identifies creativity as the foundation of enterprise learning and all enterprise activities. Creative thinking and applied creative behaviour is the first important step in all new undertakings, the module explores various interpretations and theories about creativity, providing you with creative skills that will be applied in practice. Innovation is at the heart of ensuring business success and long term prosperity. The module explores the linkages between creative processes and how these result in applications of innovation; how technology is widely used as a driver for innovation and how global economies and markets respond to innovation. Understanding the talents, techniques and temperament employed by entrepreneurs will be the foundation for understanding the process of creativity and innovation.

Module: 5HR006

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

International Business cannot function without its human resources and this module looks at the employment and management of people within the global arena. The aim is to make you aware of key human resource issues which are crucial to assist organisational success in international business, from strategies to employ international workers to ethical considerations of employment when relocating or outsourcing business. The academic ideas that can help you analyse and evaluate the international environment from an HR perspective will be addressed as well as the opportunity to consider individual countries human resource factors. All of which will enable you to be successful in employing workers and managers in different nations as well as in the UK multi cultural labour market, you will be asked to demonstrate your learning through producing an individual portfolio assessment which will be submitted in stages throughout the module.

Module: 5HR002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aims of the module are four fold: 1. Within a theoretical framework to develop an understanding of and can explain the need to manage self before embarking on the management of others, and how, to identify and select tools to better manage self. 2. To gain an appreciation and understanding of theoretical constructs of managing and leading others. To explore, to explain and select which approaches should be used in the management of others. 3. To assess the impact of how individual perceptions, beliefs and also factors outside the managers control can impact upon the management of others and is able to explain how others respond to being managed or led. 4. Students will be able to identify the fundamentals of change in a business environment and apply tools of change management to case studies

Module: 5HR004

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module seeks to discuss aspects of the Employment Cycle within an organisational context .Particular practical consideration is given to the people management issues which all line managers, at all levels, will face within the role of Human Resourcing within an organisation, in effective change management. The module considers the broad practical application of HR with reference to and examples of external factors as drivers of an organisation’s reaction to changing environments

Module: 5HR005

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aims for this module are to enable students to critically evaluate and analyse a range of concepts and academic frameworks embraced within employee training, learning and development. An in-depth understanding of employee training, learning and development will ensure that the student is fully aware of a wide variety of activities and perspectives. Students will then be able to consider how a training, learning and development strategy is formed, with regard to key stakeholders and the wider HR and organisational systems and frameworks, and thus evaluate and justify interventions which are most likely to support the learning ethos of the individual, team and organisation. They will be encouraged to examine training, learning and development through a range of critical perspectives incorporating recent academic underpinning research

Module: 6BU010

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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The purpose of this module is threefold: increasing understanding of organisations, their leadership and management, the economy and the business environment 
 preparation for and development of a career in business and management 
 enhancement of a wide range of skills and attributes that equip graduates to 
become effective global citizens is choosing to study abroad or take an internship or being able to move between the courses we offer.
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