International Business and Human Resource Management (Taught)

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Course summary

• Gain useful practical experience and solid theoretical expertise.

• Develop the skills you need to pursue an exciting career.

• Engage and network with real organisations via a live consultancy project.

• Strengthen your independent learning, personal responsibility and initiative.

• Attain the teamworking skills you need to successfully collaborate and communicate with others.

On this course, you'll approach your studies from a global perspective, and think about how business and HR is conducted across cultures and borders. Upon graduation, you'll be ready to apply for a range of exciting careers across the globe.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Studying a range of topics through different learning methods, you’ll think about how international organisations approach human resource management.

You study international business topics such as globalisation, multinational enterprises, cross-cultural management, international strategy, and global supply chains. In terms of the course’s HR strand, you’ll look at areas such as human resource contexts and strategies, and international employee relations.

Our large and diverse teaching team combines practical industry experience and academic research expertise. This enables us to offer a course that blends real-world understanding and relevance with advanced subject knowledge and a truly international perspective.

You learn through

• lectures

• seminars

• workshops

• live projects

• simulations

• peer learning

• independent study

This course is delivered face-to-face over three semesters - teaching is scheduled based on the length of your course and the academic calendar.

Live projects

The course features an international consultancy project opportunity, supported by Venture Matrix, in which you carry out assessed projects based on real-world business solutions for local, national or global organisations.

The project aims to enhance your business awareness and improve your employment prospects. The opportunity to communicate regularly with a company will be particularly beneficial to international students from the point of view of business engagement and real-world experience. This and other experiences will give you the chance to develop your practical skills in a real world setting.

Networking opportunities

We have a dynamic, student-led HR Network, which provides excellent opportunities for sharing experience with alumni, sponsors, business leaders, human resource managers and consultants.

Field trips

Where possible, students are offered the opportunity to attend field trips and site visits to demonstrate the business environment, and to allow for useful real-world experiences and insight.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in :

• account management

• advertising

• business development

• retail buying

• consultancy

• marketing

• human resource management

• logistics management

• management consultancy

• market research analysis

• product management

• project management

• retail management

Your elective choices will be subject to availability and to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives, or there might be just one elective module in some instances.

Compulsory modules

Contemporary International Management Practice

Dissertation: Hrm/Hrd

Global Supply Chain Management

Human Resource Management In Context

International Consultancy Project 2

International Strategic Management

Managing Employee Relations

Principles Of International Business

Research Methods

**Elective modules **

Organisations And Leadership

Performance And Reward Management

Coursework
Exam

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