Human Resource Management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to managing an organisation’s most valued assets: the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business.

 

This four-year, full-time course will develop in you the knowledge, competencies and skills necessary to function effectively as a HRM professional in a business environment. The course covers the breadth and depth of the HR profession, from small to large organisations in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors; from the fundamental to sophisticated, and local to global.

 

The course covers the key professional areas for the HRM professional stipulated by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and is accredited by the institute.

 

Course Philosophy

The philosophy of our programme is to provide students with a contemporary perspective of HRM through the lens of a highly practical, reflective approach to the discipline and the current needs of employers in national and international contexts. HRM is changing with an increased emphasis on proactivity, innovation, criticality and multidisciplinarity accelerated by organisational and societal trends in flexible work patterns, digitisation, sustainability, and staff mobility. The programme will provide a solid basis for understanding existing and changing functions in HRM and an opportunity to develop business acumen using analytical, technical and transferable skills as a path to personal and professional lifelong development. Participants will learn to be curious, agile, transparent and confident, industry-ready to meet the digital, ethical and sustainability challenges of the 21st century HRM professional. The BSc in human resource management (full- and part-time modes) is positioned in the borderland space where scholarship meets practice. It brings together the distinct, yet interrelated, communities of theory and real-life, to teach how evidence-based, outcomes-drive research can be applied in practice.