Human Resource Management MA

This programme provides the opportunity to develop requisite underpinning values, core knowledge and behaviours to support access to the professional grades of CIPD membership. It will allow you to identify, develop and apply appropriate interpersonal, organisational and functional skills required to embark on a career in HRM as reflexive practitioner.

This programme integrates and explains the interrelationships between employment relation dynamics, legal, and strategic dimensions of managing and engaging people in organisations. It enables students to evaluate contemporary and future trends in HRM from critical perspectives. You will develop a critical understanding of Human Resource Management as a body of theory and practice and gives you the opportunity to become a graduate who can operate in a changing global context using a range of practical, analytical and in-depth research project skills.

This course benefits from Education 2030 where a simplified ‘block learning’ timetable means you will study one subject at a time. This means that you will have more time to engage with your learning and further deepen your understanding of each of the topics introduced by this course.

*This accreditation is subject to approval from the professional body.

Key features

  • Benefit from membership with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the UK’s leading professional body for all HR practitioners.
  • You will be taught by expert academics with first-hand experience in researching or working in human resource management.
  • Benefit from Education 2030, where a simplified ‘block learning’ timetable means you will study one subject at a time and have more time to engage with your learning, receive faster feedback and enjoy a better study-life balance.
MA Award
September Start
Full-time Study Mode
12 months Duration

Entry Requirements For This Course

Applicants will normally hold an undergraduate degree in any subject with a minimum pass of 2:2, or equivalent overseas qualification, or an equivalent professional qualification.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential.

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