Module BUSI2161: Human Resource Management

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI2161: Human Resource Management

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• The module aims to develop students' ability to master the knowledge and understanding of key issues relating to the processes and practices of human resource management.
• The module is intended to provide students with the opportunity to critically understand research in the field of human resource management.

Content

• Introduction to Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
• Staffing the organisation
• Equal opportunities, diversity management and work-life balance
• Performance management and reward
• Training and developing the workforce
• Collective representation and involvement at work
• Managing conflict at work
• Exiting the workforce
• International HRM

Learning Outcomes

• Define and critically evaluate the main schools of HR thought.
• Develop a knowledge and understanding of the nature and role of human resource management in contemporary organisations.
• Ability to evaluate a strategic approach to HR.
• Assess the main trends in the practice of HR.
• Critically evaluate the processes, procedures and practices of contemporary human resource management.
• Understand critical perspectives on human resource management and industrial relations as a managerialist discourse.

• Analysis of HR issues and the formulation of appropriate responses.
• Understanding ambiguous and indeterminate contexts.
• Negotiation and persuasion.
• Appreciate alternative perspectives.
• Development of critical thinking.
• Data gathering and analysis.
• The development of cohesive and persuasive arguments.

• Select appropriate modes of communication.
• Effective presentation skills through the use of oral, written and technological media.
• Research appropriate periodicals, websites, books, other references to draw together required information.
• Having located relevant information from a variety of sources, to bring it together and present it in a coherent argument.
• Consider issues from a range of perspectives and draw upon appropriate concepts/values to reach a critical assessment.
• Take an active role in learning and recognise potential responsibility for own lifelong learning.
• Think laterally and inventively, to develop original approaches in defining and solving problems.
• Prioritise tasks, manage and achieve results on time and within budgets and/or other constraints.
• Construct grammatically correct and well written/spelt essays and reports, using the most appropriate style for the purpose.
• Understand verbal messages without prejudice or assumptions.
• Seek, store, retrieve, synthesise, use and present information in ways appropriate to the task, including the use of C& IT.
• Use computer applications to the level required and appropriate to the problem in hand.
• Cooperate with others, make a variety of contributions to help the group achieve its goal.
• Recognise and accommodate the fact that others have different needs, feelings, and/or behaviour, particularly in group work.

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

• Teaching is by lectures and seminars.
• Learning takes place through attendance at lectures, preparation for and participation in seminars, and private study.
• Seminar classes provide a structured series of case studies, group exercises etc to support, reinforce knowledge and encourage independent study.
• Formative assessment is by presentation and case analysis.
• Summative assessment is by means of a written assignment.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Contribution to a case-study based 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