BA (Hons) Human Resource Management with Sandwich placement

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: 5BU005

Credits: 40

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module represents an opportunity for students to apply and develop, through work experience, the skills and knowledge they have gained on their course. This module involves a year long placement in a business related area, supported by a workplace mentor and UWBS Employability and Placement Unit (EPU). The year-long placement provides students with the opportunity to gain experience of graduate level work. In this way students can gain a second, world-recognised qualification with no extra work. Employers are very keen to employ graduates who have already had work experience as part of their course and this contributes to a student’s unique selling point.

Module: 6BU010

Credits: 20

Period: 4

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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. 
 'Organisations' should be understood to include a wide range of different types including, for example, public, private and not-for-profit (such as social enterprises), together with a comprehensive range of sizes and structures of organisations including small and medium enterprises. Similarly, the term ‘organisation’ should be interpreted generically. '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. The third section considers aspects of Knowledge and understanding. There is an expectation that degree programmes covered by this Subject Benchmark Statement should provide a broad, analytical and highly integrated study of business and management. Graduates should be able to demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding of organisations, the business environment in which they operate and their management. Programmes emphasise understanding, responding and shaping the dynamic and changing nature of business and the consideration of the future of organisations within the global business environment, including the management of risk. The study of Organisations will encompasses the internal aspects, functions and processes of organisations including their diverse nature, purposes, structures, size/scale, governance, operations and management, together with the individual and corporate behaviours and cultures which exist within and between different organisations and their influence upon the external environment. The business environment will encompass the fast pace of change within a wide range of factors, including economic, environmental, cultural, ethical, legal and regulatory, political, sociological, digital and technological, together with their effects at local, national and global levels upon the strategy, behaviour, management and sustainability of organisations. This module is strongly related to practice and therefore provide a clear link between the development of relevant skills and employability of graduates. 
 At the end of this module Graduates should be able to demonstrate a range of cognitive and intellectual skills together with competencies specific to business and management. Graduates should also be able to demonstrate relevant personal and interpersonal skills. These include both subject-specific and generic skills. 


Module: 6BU013

Credits: 20

Period: 4

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