Our BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management course is designed to develop your people management and leadership skills, as well as launch your HR career.
With a focus on shaping your professional problem-solving skills, our enquiry-based learning approach will help you build a skill set to respond to contemporary people management issues.
Want to know how to manage people? Interested in the human resources aspect of business? Whatever your aspirations, our Business and Management (Human Resource Management) course will give you a good grounding in the theory and practice of modern human resource management. Along the way you’ll develop the core skills you need to excel in all kinds of businesses and start to build a clear picture of exactly where those skills could take you.
This exciting programme will give you a thorough grasp of current theory and practice relating to the management of human resources and employment relations.
Teaching and Assessment Teaching As a research intensive university, international level research findings by Brunel Business School tutors are regularly used in student lectures. Tutors on this programme are leaders in the field of HR and active researchers within the school’s Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour Research Group (HRM - OB). Examples of tutor research used in MSc Human Resources & Employment Relations include: Professor Neil Anderson Professor Anderson provides several of his seminal review papers, empirical studies, and theoretical models for consideration by the students and additional readings are also provided. Students are asked to present back in small groups, having critically assessed research findings for themselves. As the findings are both confirmatory and non-confirmatory, the ensuing debate is used to improve their understanding of whether high-performance HRM practices do indeed contribute to organisational performance and profitability. Professor Anderson is also an Academic CIPD Fellow. Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin The programme’s Global Diversity Management module is designed around Professor Ozbilgin’s research in diversity management in multi-national organisations within the public private and voluntary sectors. In particular, Professor Ozbilgin’s book Global Diversity Management: An Evidence Based Approach (2008) co-authored with Dr Ahu Tatli is used as the core text on the module. The book is the only empirical research based text in the field, and provides original field work on diversity management that spreads across eight years. Other Business School research by Professor Ozbilgin is used for the practice of literature reviews. Further to this Professor Ozbilgin is Academic CIPD Fellow and regularly uses CIPD reports that he has co-authored. Students also receive case studies and case reports by the tutor.
Are you 16–19 and fascinated by the human body, health, and disease? This course is your chance to explore biology in a hands-on, real-world context, while earning a qualification equivalent to one full A Level.
Over two years, you'll combine practical assignments with exam-based learning, studying topics like: