Human Resource Management (With Professional Practice Year) (Accredited)

This course equips you with the knowledge, skills, behaviours and graduate competencies that employers value and need, in line with the CIPD professional accreditation. You explore key areas of human resource management (HRM) such as talent management; operational management; leadership and motivation; data management and interpretation; selection and recruitment; and employee relations. You may also take up opportunities to engage with real-life HRM problems, allowing you to carry out practical projects that emulate working as a professional manager.

Professional Practice Year
Take your course over four years and include a Professional Practice Year after your second year of studies. It is an opportunity to apply your learning in the workplace while enhancing your knowledge and skills through fee-free paid practice. It also builds your CV and industry contacts with many students progressing to employment within their practice-year organisation or institution.

Course Accreditation/Industry Endorsement

• We are an accredited Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) centre. This means all of our HRM courses are professional-body accredited, giving you access to Level 5 accreditation and increasing your employability in the HRM profession, on successful graduation.

Your Student Experience

• Learn from expert tutors, active within the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and in both consultancy and research.

• Develop your understanding of how HRM works with other business disciplines, enabling you to fit into numerous organisation roles.

• Apply what you have learnt to real-life situations experienced by companies and organisations globally.

• Build the confidence and problem-solving skills needed to be an effective manager across a range of organisations and settings.

• Benefit from HRM-focused employability events throughout the academic year, including careers fairs and immersive CV events.

• Learn from employer site visits and visits to the University by employers and local HR managers, who to share their HRM stories - a great way to network and ask questions relating to HRM career development.

• Gain from having regular engagement and support from CIPD members and branch officials, helping you make a smooth transition into the world of HRM employment.

Year 1;
Business Pod,
Human Resources Management Foundations

Year 2;
Employment Relations, Reward and Law,
Innovative Practice in HRM and HRD,
People Resourcing and Development,
Practice Weeks: Career Planning,
Project Management,
Research Skills,
Strategic Thinking,
The Strategic Context of Human Resource Management

Year 3,
HRM Practice Portfolio,
Developing Professional Human Resource Management Practice,
Dissertation or Specialist Project in Human Resource Management,
Practice Weeks: The Future You,
Strategy and Creativity

In line with the Business School’s commitment to practical applied education, a large part of the assessment will relate to your demonstration of your ability to do HRM in practice.

We will want to see that you understand the theory and have developed critical thinking skills which help you evaluate the relevance of what you have learned.

To assess this range of integration of theory and skills into sound practice, we use a range of methods including:

Project work, reports, case studies (78%)
Presentations, posters (9%)
Formal exams (13%)