Human Resource Management MLitt

The modules in this programme have varying methods of delivery and assessment. Typically, modules consist of three to five contact hours per week including lectures, seminars and tutorials. Assessment is either entirely by coursework, or through a combination of coursework and a two-hour end-of-semester examination.

Compulsory

• Contemporary Global Issues in Management: how various global trends will impact upon economies, organisations and the practice of management.
• Masterclasses in Human Resource Management: reviews a range of contemporary and critical issues relating to the practise, problemising and theorising about human resource management.
• Skills and Challenges for the HR Professional: explores ways in which to conceptualise HRM in organisations, and the ways in which context influences the practice of HR in different organisational and occupational settings.

and one of:

• Managing and Developing People: analyses the type of policies and practices necessary for mutual commitment and engagement between employee and employer.
• Managing Human Resources: reviews the key theoretical and practical aspects involved in managing human resources.

Student choose two optional modules, taking one in each semester. For the latest optional module information, .

• Alternative Investment
• Creative Marketing Communications
• Entrepreneurship and Business Planning
• Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
• Ethics, Organisations and Management
• Financial Systems
• International Financial Management
• International Marketing
• Leadership in Organisations
• Managerial Decision-making
• Managing Natural Resources
• Managing People in Global Markets
• Marketing and Society
• Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs): Critical Perspective
• Risk Management
• Scenario Thinking and Strategy.

Students attend lectures throughout Semesters 1 and 2 to prepare them for conducting the research portion of the dissertation. The dissertation is normally on a specific area of Human Resource Management, however at the School of Management, you will have the freedom to develop a topic of your own, which is of interest to you and will contribute towards career development or further study goals.

Students are assigned a supervisor based on a research proposal submitted in the second semester. They will then research and write a 15,000-word dissertation over the summer to be submitted on a date specified in August.

If students choose not to complete the dissertation requirement for their Masters degree (MLitt), there are exit awards available that allow suitably qualified candidates to receive a Postgraduate Diploma. By choosing an exit award, you will finish your degree at the end of the second semester of study and receive a PGDip instead of a MLitt.