PMHUREMA - MA Human Resource Management

Each module consists of a mixture of scheduled classes, guided learning, and self-directed learning. Teaching and learning is undertaken through lectures, seminars, discussions, group activities, workshops, projects and self-managed study. Modules are supported through Weblearn and core modules through workshops.

We recognise that the major resource is the staff themselves and how they utilise their scholarship and research to enhance student learning, undertake research activity and produce research publications, professional training, consultancy and other third-stream activity. Our courses benefit from the research activity conducted by staff which helps to inform our teaching. Many of our staff are recognised as experts in their respective fields. We also have a dedicated Research Centre: Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Diversity & HRM (CRDHRM). This research activity generates an active research culture in which you are exposed to the latest developments and cutting edge ideas through the course, by opportunities to attend regular research seminars and by stimulating ideas for your own dissertation.

This course focuses on the issues and challenges facing stakeholders in the Human Resource Management field. More specifically it aims to:

1. Provide the opportunity for postgraduate education which benefits individuals across a wide range of occupations concerned with human resource management, by enabling them to relate their practical experience to relevant theoretical and empirical research-based ideas and concepts.

2) Enhance students’ critical awareness of current issues and strategic developments in human resource management taking account of the nature and significance of national and international contexts e.g. employment systems, public policy, labour markets and organisational practice:

3) Offer a broad education whilst also allowing students to specialise in areas of occupational and academic interest (through both choice of designates and the dissertation).

4) Stimulate conceptual understanding that enables students to critically evaluate current research, scholarship and practitioner debates in the field of human resource and employment management and development, and to evaluate methodologies, developing critiques of them and, where appropriate proposing new developments in knowledge and understanding;

5) Enable students to design and conduct their own research;

6) Develop students’ skills in interpersonal relationships in the work context and facilitate critical self-reflection and ongoing appraisal on the knowledge and skills gained and the implications for career development and progression.

7) Provide an opportunity for applicants to gain appropriate professional qualifications within the field of human resource management.

On completion of the course, students will:

• Have acquired an understanding of the historical, cultural, economic, legal, social and political factors which affect ‘stakeholders’ attitudes, expectations, behaviour and strategies within a range of human resource and employment contexts;
• Be able to utilise an appropriate range of theoretical and analytical perspectives and techniques in the investigation and analysis of employment and human resource issues and problems;
• Be able to recognise and explain the environment and context in which human resource and employment management decisions are made and identify the practical implications of implementing policies and strategies in the human resource and employment management areas taking account of key actors, environment and context;
• Be able to investigate and analyse complex employment and human resource management problems by undertaking competent empirical research drawing upon relevant current bodies of knowledge and appropriate research tools;
• Analyse strategic and operational issues within organisations, and devise appropriate proposals and solutions to alleviate and resolve issues in organisational and employment contexts, using as appropriate accepted best practice within the people management field.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge and research skills in order to produce an academically sound and professionally relevant dissertation based on independent, original study and research;
• Have developed general study skills (problem solving, group work, communication, presentation etc) and be able to assess their own personal, professional and scholarly development needs and implement person­al, professional and scholarly development plans;
• Be able to contribute to debates on human resource management through appropriate scholarly/practitioner presentation, discussion and writing.

- Have acquired an understanding of the historical, cultural, economic, legal, social and political factors which affect ‘stakeholders’ attitudes, expectations, behaviour and strategies within a range of human resource and employment contexts:

Contextualising Management
Leading, Managing and Developing People
HRM: Resourcing and Talent Management
Learning and Talent Development
Managing Employment Relations in
Contemporary Organisations
Employment Law and Practice
Employee Engagement
Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

- Be able to utilise an appropriate range of theoretical and analytical perspectives and
techniques in the investigation and analysis of employment and human resource issues and problems:

Contextualising Management
Leading, Managing and Developing People
HRM: Resourcing and Talent Management
Learning and Talent Development
Managing Employment Relations in
Contemporary Organisations
Employment Law and Practice
Employee Engagement
Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

- Be able to recognise and explain the environment and context in which human resource and employment management decisions are made and identify the practical implications of implementing policies and strategies in the human resource and employment management areas taking account of key actors, environment and context:

Contextualising Management
Leading, Managing and Developing People
HRM: Resourcing and Talent Management
Learning and Talent Development
Managing Employment Relations in
Contemporary Organisations
Employment Law and Practice
Employee Engagement
Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

- Be able to investigate and analyse complex employment and human resource management Contextualising Management Leading, Managing and Developing People
problems by undertaking competent empirical research drawing upon relevant current bodies of knowledge and appropriate research tools:

HRM: Resourcing and Talent Management
Learning and Talent Development
Managing Employment Relations in
Contemporary Organisations
Employment Law and Practice
Employee Engagement
Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

- Analyse strategic and operational issues within organisations, and devise appropriate proposals and solutions to alleviate and resolve issues in organisational and employment contexts, using as appropriate accepted best practice within the people management field:

Contextualising Management
Leading, Managing and Developing People
HRM: Resourcing and Talent Management
Learning and Talent Development
Managing Employment Relations in
Contemporary Organisations
Employment Law and Practice
Employee Engagement
Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

- Demonstrate specialist knowledge and research skills in order to produce an academically sound and professionally relevant dissertation based on independent, original study and research:

Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

- Have developed general study skills (problem solving, group work, communication, presentation etc) and be able to assess their own personal, professional and scholarly development needs and implement personal, professional and scholarly development plans:

Contextualising Management
Leading, Managing and Developing People
Learning and Talent Development
Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

- Be able to contribute to debates on human resource and employment management through appropriate scholarly/practitioner presentation, discussion and writing:

Contextualising Management
Leading, Managing and Developing People
HRM: Resourcing and Talent Management
Learning and Talent Development
Managing Employment Relations in
Contemporary Organisations
Employment Law and Practice
Employee Engagement
Research Methods in Human Resource
Management
Human Resource Management Dissertation

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Assessment methods include assignments written in report format, in essay format, comparative analyses, case studies, reflective reports, presentations, group work and exams, (although there are only two exams required on the course, and both are in the first semester in HR7134 and HR7135.) The dissertation is approx. 15,000 words (60 credits) and meets the CIPD’s requirements for a management research report.

Students are required to undertake research and prepare a dissertation to meet CIPD’s requirements including the production of recommendations, a costed action plan and a reflective statement on their learning. Students are normally required to focus their dissertation on issues in the workplace and must gain access to an organisation in time to take the final module that requires them to work on their dissertation. It is anticipated that students should spend the equivalent of at least one day a week carrying out their research in the organisation. Where significant problems arise in gaining appropriate access to an organisation on which to base the dissertation, it may be possible with agreement by the module leader to conduct desk-based research, for example the analysis of WERS data.

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3x 20 credit modules together give the PG Certificate in Human Resources.

6 x 20 credit modules together give the PG Diploma in Human Resources.

CIPD approved as follows:

Advanced Level Award in Human Resources (one module of 20 credits or higher)

Advanced Level Certificate in Human Resources (two core modules (HR7134 and HR7135) plus two designated subject related options (each of 20 credits or higher)

Advanced Level Diploma in HRM/HRD (four core modules and two designated subject related options; 160 credits in total)

Successful completion of the MA HRM, in conjunction with joining the CIPD, leads to the CIPD’s Advanced Level Diploma, the highest educational award offered by the professional body under its current qualifications scheme.

This Advanced Level Diploma plus relevant experience enables you to apply for membership assessment via CIPD, and you can be upgraded to a professional (Chartered) level of CIPD membership.

Achieving the CIPD’s Advanced Level Diploma is of major significance in gaining HR roles not only in the UK but also abroad.

Upgrading to Chartered Membership or Chartered Fellowship of the CIPD enables you to use the designate letters CMCIPD or CFCIPD, further enhancing your employability.

A good bachelor’s degree at 2.2 or above or equivalent in an appropriate field (e.g. business, law or social science qualification). Exceptionally, candidates with significant HR experience at a senior level may be considered. Interviews are generally required for non-standard entry. IELTS: Minimum of 6.

Following successful completion and the award of a Postgraduate Diploma of HRM at a CIPD-approved or awarded centre (with an average of at least 55% per module), students may apply through Admissions for a place on the MAHRM ‘top up.’

Following the submission of an application form to the University Postgraduate Admissions, students will be considered for direct entry to Year 2 of the MAHRM (requires students to complete the Research Methods in HRM module plus a triple-weighted 15,000 word HRM Dissertation).

In order to obtain the CIPD’s Advanced Level Diploma on completion of the MA HRM, students need to apply for membership of the CIPD as they join the course.