Module BUSI45L15: Human Resource Development

Department: Management and Marketing

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 2016-17) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• 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
• Identification of learning, development, and training needs
• Design and delivery of learning interventions
• Evaluating learning interventions
• Leadership and Management Development

Learning Outcomes

• Have an advanced knowledge and understanding of the context and nature of skills at work in contemporary societies, and the implications of these for learning and development.
• Be familiar with the methods and tools common to the analysis, development and evaluation of learning and development interventions.
• Have an in-depth understanding of how learning, training, and development needs for all types of staff may be identified.
• Have a critical appreciation of the importance of stakeholder involvement in the design and implementation of effective learning and development programmes.
• Have a critical appreciation of the importance of incorporating equality and diversity in learning and development interventions.

• 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 activities, 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, their ability to apply it to the analysis of specific issues in training and HRD, and design and evaluate learning interventions.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Group presentation