Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

This module has been designed to prepare students for a professional career in HR in diverse organisational settings. It is primarily concerned with key HR skills, students’ personal and professional development and the development of foundational transferable skills. As such, it underpins, integrates and consolidates students’ learning on MSc Global Human Resource Management.

Specifically, the module aims to give students an appreciation of the collection, analysis and interpretation of information as a basis for decision-making and problem-solving. It also aims to develop the interpersonal and cross-cultural skills required by global HR professionals and seeks to foster applied learning and continuing professional development.

Outline Of Syllabus

The syllabus includes pertinent skills required for global HR students and practitioners, in relation to:

1. Information and communication
2. Team working and interpersonal
3. Key human resource management
4. Career management and development

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

1.       Appreciate the key skills required by global HR professionals, including strategic HR planning.
2.       Critically evaluate the quality and reliability of information sources to inform evidence-based decision-making.
3.       Critically evaluate different ethical perspectives and how these inform people practices.
4.       Demonstrate a critical understanding of the different stakeholders involved in the employment relationship and how people practices impact this relationship.
5.       Demonstrate a critical awareness of how organisations anticipate and respond to contemporary business challenges and how this shapes and develops people practices.
6.       Demonstrate a critical understanding of how people practices impact behaviours and performance outcomes.
7.       Demonstrate a critical understanding of the different stakeholders involved in the employment relationship and how people practices impact this relationship.
8.       Demonstrate a high degree of self-awareness, the importance of evaluating their own professional and personal experiences to develop the competences required to plan their future career.

Intended Skill Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

1.       Manage themselves more effectively at work or in another professional context;
2.       Manage interpersonal relationships at work more effectively;
3.       Make sound and justifiable decisions and solve problems more effectively;
4.       Lead and influence others more effectively.
5.       Interpret financial information and manage financial resources;
6.       Demonstrate enhanced IT proficiency;
7.       Demonstrate an essential people management skill-set;
8.       Voice concerns about people practices which are not consistent with organizational values and wider ethical and legal standards;
9.       Build purposeful working relationship with arrange of stakeholders and demonstrate a people management skill-set involving fairness, consultation and inclusiveness;
10.       Demonstrate commitment to evaluating the outcome and impact of your decisions to inform your future approach;
11.       Partner with customers to understand their needs and develop robust business cases that demonstrate a return on investment.
12.       Identify and action their future professional development requirements related to their careers as an HR practitioner / international management practitioner, and to build their career management competences.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The module employs a mix of learning activities to develop students' knowledge and understanding of the key issues, offer them opportunities for peer discussion and debate, and opportunities to apply their learning through the completion of practical tasks.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The assessment has been designed to ensure that students have a good knowledge and understanding of the module content, to establish that students can work both independently and as part of a team, and to ensure that students can effectively reflect on their own practice to develop their global HR professional skills.

Semester 1 assessment assesses MLOs: Knowledge Learning Outcomes 1 & 2; Skills Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 4, 7 & 8.

Semester 2 assessment assesses MLOs: Knowledge Learning Outcomes 3 & 4; Skills Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7.

General Notes

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