MSc/PgDip/PgCert Human Resource Management/Human Resource Development
Part-time
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Business and management
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You attend one afternoon and evening a week, based on two modules each semester. There is also an integrated programme of personal and professional development activities in each semester.
Year one – postgraduate certificate
Organisations and leadership
You analyse the main influences on your behaviour at work and the central role that the HR leader plays in building and managing a competitive but harmonious organisation.
Human resource management in context
You develop a critical awareness of the development of organisations and the key role played by human resource management.
Resourcing and talent management
This module provides you with the principles of people resourcing strategies in organisations, and an understanding of the factors informing HR policy development. You explore the activities of acquisition, management and retention of people.
Performance and reward management
You develop your understanding of performance management, reward management and the related tools and systems.
Developing professional and personal practice (Year one and two)
This module aims to support your learning and development in key professional and HR leadership skills over the diploma stage of the programme.
Critically reflecting on theory and practice, you are required to evaluate your learning and develop a portfolio of evidence of your continuing professional development.
Year two – postgraduate diploma
Developing people
You develop your understanding of current and future issues in learning and development. You learn how to research, design and deliver learning and development strategies.
Managing employee relations
You study national employment policy, legal regulation and current perspectives on the management of the employment relationship. This helps you to develop the skills needed to give professional advice and support to line managers.
Strategies for international HRM
You study comparative HRM, managing people across domestic boundaries, managing diversity in a domestic situation and managing a domestic situation affected by international influences, such as international labour law. This module is only for those continuing to the MSc stage
Investigating business issues from an HR perspective
You study this module if you are not continuing to the MSc stage. You complete research work that enables you to critically assess and analyse an aspect of human resource management/development of your choice.
Developing professional and personal practice (year one and two)
You continue to reflect on your learning and develop your portfolio, as detailed under the module description for year one above.
Research philosophy and methods
This module prepares you for your dissertation and equips you with the skills to interpret and evaluate published research, so you can develop evidence-based HR policy.
Year three
Dissertation
The dissertation is the final element of the masters programme.
It offers you the opportunity to enhance your personal and professional development through an in-depth independent study in an area of your choice that is relevant to human resource management/development.
Part-time – typically three years, maximum six years
Starts September
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £3,060 a year for years one, two and three including Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) student membership
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
On a module/coursework basis plus a management project and/or a dissertation. There are a range of assessed tasks including • time-constrained assignments • coursework • portfolios
Our Postgraduate Diploma Human Resource Management is recognised as equivalent to the CIPD Advanced level diploma. Successfully completing it also gives you the knowledge required towards a professional level of membership (Associate member, Chartered Member or Chartered Fellow).
Rebecca Watson
MSc Human Resource Management
Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University has an atmosphere and culture of professionalism, integrity and a range of lecturers and practitioners that are experienced in their respective fields. It is an incredibly flexible institution that recognises the individual needs of each student.
The MSc Human Resource Management (HRM) course has lecturers that have been HR practitioners and have a practical, engaging teaching method which makes the course extremely interactive, relevant and appealing!
I began my career in HR as a graduate intern at a local HR consultancy, Total HR Limited. Within six months I was promoted to an HR business partner, dealing with client queries and delivering on a range of HR activities. It was identified that a Masters course in HRM would be a key development tool to use in my career in HR and as an aspiring HR professional. This course would allow me to underpin my extensive practical working knowledge of HR with the theoretical aspects that are also important for the modern HR practitioner.
The course is structured to accommodate your needs in your working and personal life.
Studying part time means you retain the flexibility of working and studying simultaneously and the work load remains manageable and compatible with your work responsibilities.
As the course directly links to my work, they complement each other, this means it doesn’t seem too much of a task doing an essay because it helps to understand the work that you do in the office!
The tutors have been incredibly supportive, understanding and accommodating of our commitment to our work life and also provide a friendly and approachable ear to your ideas whether they are academic, professional or personal.
The facilities are excellent and working remotely is encouraged.
My experience of studying on this course has been absolutely invaluable to my development as a HR professional and my skills as a HR practitioner. It critically underpinned the work that I undertook for the Law Society for England and Wales for which I was shortlisted for a CIPD People Management Award for Outstanding Student of the Year and shortlisted for the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce Young Business Person of the Year. I have gained confidence, knowledge and professionalism in the work that I undertake as well as meeting other like minded HR colleagues/professionals.
I am fortunate enough to have been sponsored by my employer. The sponsorship was agreed as it was the next natural progression in my HR career but also because the business would receive a significant return on investment from having a practitioner who knew the latest HR trends, employment law and HR knowledge.
The MSc HRM has enabled me to deliver a first class service to our clients, understand HR as an evolving and diverse practice but ultimately, has given me the confidence to become an HR professional with impact. For example, my MSc allowed me to generate over £100,000 for the business through delivering first class HR training and being shortlisted for a number of awards which has helped our commercial exposure.
My advice to anyone considering studying part-time is
• manage your time effectively and make sure that it works around you not the other way around
• always talk to your lecturers – they are your main support network as well as colleagues on the course
• always ask for help
• you are taken just as seriously as full timers – so get involved!
Studying part time may seem daunting but it is flexible, enjoyable and you get the best of both worlds – time to breathe and time to study!
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Rebecca Watson
MSc Human Resource Management
