Human resource management is both a craft and a strategic system. This MSc equips you to design talent acquisition, performance, reward, learning and employee relations systems that create organisational capability while meeting legal and ethical standards. You will practise evidence-based HR, workforce analytics and inclusive design, and complete a consultancy-style capstone with a live or simulated organisational client. Ideal for aspiring HR business partners, people operations leaders and line managers taking strategic people responsibility.
MSc Human Resource Management is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Strategic Human Resource Management through Strategic Human Resource Management; Organisational Behaviour & Workplace Psychology; Talent Acquisition, Assessment & Employer Brand; Employment Law & Employee Relations; Learning, Development & Leadership Capability; Performance, Reward & Total Rewards Design, and finish on MSc HRM Capstone Consultancy Project.
Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students diagnose one organisation and carry a decision through to a recommendation. Reading is a case, a short financial extract, and a stakeholder note. The artefact a marker expects is a consulting brief a manager could use.
The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Design integrated HR systems aligned to business strategy Apply employment law principles to complex workplace issues Use people analytics for workforce planning and retention
Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass.
The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Curriculum informed by CIPD professional standards and contemporary research on high-performance work systems. Stacks upward from the Graduate Certificate in Human Resources for career switchers.
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