MA Human Resource Management
Course Details
Course Subject
MA Human Resource Management
Total Credit
180
Qualification
Postgraduate Taught
Awarding Body
University of Hertfordshire
Academic Level
Level 7
Course Location
Hatfield
Course Duration
1 Year
Course Fees
£ 16450 Yearly
MOI
Accepted
OIETC
Accepted
Intakes
January/September
Work Placement
No
About The Course
About the course
If you love managing, helping and developing people, you’ll thrive on this contemporary and relevant post-graduate course. Learn how to manage employees effectively, recruit and motivate talent to ensure success and reward your best performers.
With technology increasing our connectivity across nations and cultures, workforces are increasingly global, diverse and more remote than ever. Attracting the best talent from an international pool has raised new opportunities and challenges for HR managers.
Central to this course are the themes of how to manage such change across personnel development, addressing real issues facing businesses such as equality, diversity and climate organisational change.
Explore the role human resources plays in modern organisations, developing both theoretical knowledge and practical skills, which you can apply to your current role from the start.
Understand how progressive organisations can, and do, respond to challenges arising from today’s changing work environment embracing an innovative, forward-thinking approach.
Learn to think in radical ways to manage diverse attitudes and motivations of people entering the labour market. Discover how to work across departments to promote inclusive and productive environments, enabling your employees and organisation to thrive.
The intrinsic link between HR management, an organisation’s strategic and operational requirements, and the impact on society, can be powerful. Embrace relevant and practical tools needed to respond to a range of HRM issues.
Freshen your perspective with new ways of thinking about work and the role organisations play in the world, as you build the foundations needed to become a critical, inspiring leader of the future.
Why choose this course?
Our Postgraduate studies are sector leading amongst over 100 Higher Education Institutions in the UK as evidenced by our extraordinary achievement:
- 1st out of 85 universities for business and management in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES, Advance HE, 2023)
- 1st for Skills Development, 2nd for Support, Resources, Community and Assessment (Advance HE, 2023)
Our course is well suited to those in the early stages of their HR career who want to delve deeper into HRM. Focus on key areas such as strategy, talent resourcing, employee relations, reward management and leadership.
Professional Body accreditation through the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) means you also benefit from associate CIPD membership.
Strengthen your personal learning to discover how to help others reach their potential, adding value to organisations and make a positive impact on society
Appreciate the real-life application of theory, with a fresh hands-on approach to teaching and learning, focused on applied practice and experiential learning.
Enjoy a flexible programme that gives you options to focus on areas on interest, such as specialising in global human resource management or work psychology.
Study alongside inspiring peers, expanding your learning opportunity and widening your perspective. Cohorts can include personnel and human resource managers, line managers, trade unionists and equal opportunity officers from a variety of backgrounds.
Learn from approachable, supportive HR practitioners, researchers and academics with first-hand experience and in-depth knowledge.
The world of human resource management is complex and unpredictable. By studying at Herts, you’ll gain the skills and strategies you need to help individuals, organisations and your own career thrive.
English Requirement
General Requirement
Entry requirements and key information
- Students need to have an honours degree with classification 2.2 or better in any subject from a UK university or the equivalent from a recognised university overseas
or
- a CIPD level 5 qualification and two years Human Resource Management experience