Learning Outcomes
1. Understanding how organisations are resourced with human capital
Knowledge and Understanding
Learning
Enquiry

2. Apply effective human resource management techniques in the process of employee resourcing, employee development, pay and performance management
Knowledge and Understanding
Application

3. Demonstrate an understanding of key theories that underpin effective human behaviour in the workplace, and how they are applied
Knowledge and Understanding
Application
Communication

You will learn about the key and contemporary issues associated with managing people in the workplace. Calling upon literature and research from across the fields of Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour and Employment Relations. This module examines how managers in organisations seek to gain the maximum advantage from their human capital/resources.

- What is HRM?
- The Organisational Context
- The employment contract
- Motivation at work
- Recruitment and Selection
- Learning and Development at work
- Performance management and discipline at work
- Pay regulation, structures and systems
- Inequality at work
- Towards the High-Performance Workplace?

A 1500-word reflective portfolio where students are required to write a reflection on 3 out of 6 tutorials -weighted at 40%
Examination - 1 hour exam weighted at 60%.

PLEASE NOTE ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENTS FOR Semester 1 2020/21 DUE TO COVID-19 AS FOLLOWS: Exam will not be 1.25 hours, online.

The learning strategy for full-time/part-time on-campus and corporate delivery modes requires students to commit to 150 learning hours (including assessment). Of this there will be 36 hours of class or workshop support and 114 hours of independent and self-directed study for students working alone or as part of a learning group.

The tutor led and peer-to-peer learning sessions will tend to follow a general pattern of introduction of a topic and provision of frameworks and models for student learning, followed by application by students to appropriate data or case study materials. Students will be expected to perform set exercises, these will include the analysis, discussion and presentation of case- based work both individually and as part of a learning group and will receive formative feedback. Students will be expected to obtain supplementary information from a number of paper or electronic sources as part of their preparation, as recommended by the tutor.

All learning will develop and enhance students’ digital competences.

Carbery, R. and Cross, C. (2013), Human resource management: a concise introduction, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
Wilton, N. (2016). An Introduction to Human Resource Management. London: Sage.

Library learning resources
VLE learning support material to be provided for independent /self-directed learning.
Selected contemporary problem/practice-based case examples

You will learn about the key and contemporary issues associated with managing people in the workplace. Calling upon literature and research from across the fields of Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour and Employment Relations, you will learn the issues affecting the motivation and engagement of employees in the modern workplace.