Business and Human Resource Management BA (Hons)

This module aims to develop your understanding of how well-designed investigations and research work. Develop your understanding of the research process, including literature review, research methodology and methods, data collection and analysis. This module provides you with the foundation for future research activity and the ability to design research to meet specific research objectives. Develop insight and the ability to understand and critique investigations and research undertaken by others. You will also have the opportunity to evaluate how conclusions are reached and analyse the methods used to get to those conclusions.

Compulsory

This module will examine how analytics can help organisations to look forward in their decision-making, reducing errors and costs while increasing optimisation. HR analytics or predictive decision-making processes in human resources occur through the capture, storage, sharing, transfer and analysis of big data to study the trends of human resource management within organisations. It allows all strategic decisions on human resources, including recruitment, performance management, succession planning, training and talent management, to be viewed from a scientific and practical approach.

Compulsory

Gain an understanding of how performance management and reward strategies can interlink and drive sustained organisation performance, competitive advantage, employee engagement and employee well-being. The involvement and commitment of line managers in supporting a high-performance culture that promotes equality, diversity, inclusion, trust, enthusiasm and commitment will be explored. Look at how the business environment affects how a company manages performance and rewards its employees. This includes things like job market trends, changes in different industries and regions, differences in pay and how pay compares in other countries. You will consider a company’s financial situation, like its income, expenses, and how the cost of rewards (like salaries and bonuses) can affect a company’s finances. Equality implications of reward practices are examined, as well as international comparison of regulatory requirements (gender pay gap, ethnicity pay gap reporting).

Compulsory

A fundamental part of the human resource (HR) management role is concerned with the mobilisation of a workforce, taking responsibility for ensuring that the organisation can access the skills it needs at the time and in the places that it needs them to drive sustained organisation performance. This module introduces you to the key operational tools, techniques and practices that organisations use to resource their organisations effectively. These encompass employer branding, recruitment, selection, workforce, talent and succession planning, staff retention and their equality, diversity and inclusion implications. The module explores the way different organisations are managing these activities, and which are the most effective in the context of diverse and distributed locations across the globe.

Compulsory

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved placement undertaken during your programme. A placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes.

Optional

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved international study/work placement undertaken during your programme. A work/study placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes.

Optional

This module provides you with the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills to a real-world business issue. You may choose to undertake a research project, a consultancy-style investigation, or a management simulation. Through critical engagement with academic and industry literature, data analysis and reflective inquiry, develop evidence-based insights and propose realistic, practical recommendations. This module encourages independent thinking, problem-solving and analytical capabilities.

Compulsory

This module is designed to help you understand the key parts of employment law that are important for managing people fairly and responsibly in the workplace. Gain a critical understanding of the regulation by law of the management of workplace relationships and learn how to place the legal rules in their broader economic, socio-political and international context. This module will introduce you to the core legal principles, employment legislation and procedures that HR professionals need in practice, concentrating on the employment relationship from recruitment through to termination, including the impact of equality and discrimination laws on all aspects of the employment relationship.

Compulsory

Examine how and who regulates work at the organisational and societal levels. Human resource (HR) professionals need to understand key developments in the theory and practice of employment relations, both within and beyond their immediate organisational context. Build on your knowledge and experience to develop the skills required to make informed and effective judgements about existing and emerging models, processes and practices of employment relations in local and international jurisdictions. Critically assess broader political, social and economic developments that influence the effective management of the employment relationship and the implications for equality, diversity and inclusion.

Compulsory

The module critically examines how external factors such as technological, social and environmental developments are impacting organisational change. Explore the theories and frameworks underpinning organisational change to understand what change means, how it happens and how it is best managed. Organisational Development techniques and resistance to change in organisations will also be explored alongside ways in which organisations can develop a culture open to continuous improvement, innovation and change. The material covered draws heavily on real-world examples of change processes, encouraging you to apply the theory you have learned to these examples and discover alternative methods of reacting to situations.

Compulsory