Module BUSI45L15: Human Resource Development

Department: Business School (Business)

BUSI45L15: Human Resource Development

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To develop students’ knowledge and understanding of key issues relating to skills, training and HRD.
• To familiarise students with methods and tools common to the analysis, development and evaluation of learning interventions

Content

• Introduction: the nature and scope of HRD
• Skills, training and strategic HRD
• HRD policy and practice: organizational, national and international contexts
• Critical: HRD: power and influence within political systems
• Learning theories and models
• Design and delivery of learning interventions
• Evaluating learning interventions
• Leadership and Management Development
• Theories of HRD: where next?: academic and practitioner perspectives

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students should:
• have an advanced knowledge and understanding of the context and nature of skills at work in contemporary societies.
• be familiar with the methods and tools common to the analysis, development and evaluation of learning interventions

• By the end of the module students should:
• be able to critically analyse a number of different issues relating to the study of skills, training and HRD;
• be able to critically evaluate different practices;
• be aware of and be able to critically evaluate different theories of skill and skills development.
• Be able to design, deliver and evaluate a learning intervention

• Written communication;
Written communication;

• Planning, organising and time management;
• Problem solving and analysis;
• Using initiative;
• Computer literacy.
Planning, organising and time management;

Problem solving and analysis;

Using initiative;

Computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Through a combination of lectures, seminars including practical activites, and guided reading addressing key topics, students will acquire the advanced skills and knowledge to enable them to develop a thorough understanding of this specialist field of study.
• The summative assessment of the module, by written assignment, is designed to test students’ knowledge and understanding of the subject-matter and their ability to apply it to the analysis of specific issues relating to the study of skills, training and HRD.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Group presentation

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University