Module BUSI45L15: Human Resource Development

Department: Business School (Business)

BUSI45L15: Human Resource Development

Tied To

• N1K307: Entrepreneurship (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
• N1K507: Human Resource Management (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
• N1K607: Management (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
• N1KL07: Financial Management (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
• N2P109: Management
• N2P409: Management (Human Resource Management)
• N2P509: Management (Consulting and Organisational Change)(not recruiting 2015-16)
• N2P609: Management (International Business)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

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;
• 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