Human Resource Management (Hons)

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. 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. The overall aim of the HRM programme is to develop a high level of intellectual awareness and professional practical competence in the discipline of Human Resource Management. The programme is aimed at learners seeking to initiate or develop their careers as specialist human resource management professionals, and line managers with devolved people management responsibilities, as part of their role.