BA (Honours) Business and Human Resource Management
Four years full-time (including one year work placement) or three years full-time
UCAS code • NN16
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Business and management
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At a glance
Develop an understanding of how people behave in organisations and how to get the best out of them in the workplace. You learn about all aspects of business but develop an expertise in human resource management from lecturers who are specialist consultants to major organisations. You can also take a paid work placement in year three at a major company such as Rolls-Royce or Hewlett Packard.
Key points
• Gain human resource management skills for a career in people or project management.
• Develop and practise your management potential.
• Learn from lecturers who are active consultants in human resources.
• Enhance your career potential on placement with major organisations like Marks and Spencer.
What is business and human resource management?
In today’s fast moving knowledge economy, people are the key to competitive success. Human resource management is about developing policies, processes and management approaches to identify and develop human potential, and harness it to meet organisational goals.
This course
Study how organisations can succeed through the effective management of people on this career-focused course. You learn a broad range of core business skills including marketing, finance and law, enabling you to work in various business roles and areas. You also gain specialist knowledge of human resource management.
Your teaching team can offer you the latest insights into human resource management because they are engaged in cutting edge research and consultancy. Lecturers also work for large clients such as South Yorkshire Police, Fosters Bakery and Barnsley Primary Care Trust on coaching and mentoring, and knowledge transfer partnerships. This means that you learn from up-to-date cases and examples from the real world.
You get the chance to apply what you’ve learnt in year three with a paid work placement, designed to increase your industry knowledge, skills and employability. Due to our strong relationships with regional and national employers and the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, we can offer you a range of excellent placement employers such as • Ronseal • Enterprise Rent-A-Car • Bosch • Janssen Cilag • Hewlett Packard • Metropolitan Police • Mercedes Benz.
If you do not complete a placement, you learn from other employment experiences in the work-based learning module.
The range of topics you study prepares you for a successful career in diverse industries and roles. Your specialist knowledge of human resource management can open up career paths in management positions.
Key areas of study
As well as core business areas such as marketing, finance and law, you develop a specialist knowledge of human resource management topics such as • employee learning and development • performance management and leadership • employee relations • talent management.
Graduates from this course gain the confidence to design, deliver and evaluate their own professional development and training activities. This gives you the option of starting a career in training and development.
Related courses
- BA (Honours) Business Economics (Full-time)
- BA (Honours) Business and Financial Management (Full-time)
- BA (Honours) Business Studies (Full-time)
- BA (Honours) Business and Marketing (Full-time)
- BA (Honours) Business and Enterprise Management (Full-time)
- BA (Honours) Business Management (top up) (Full-time)
You apply for this course through UCAS.
2013/14 academic year
For 2013 entry, membership of a professional body is included in the course fee.
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/study/ug/fees-and-funding
2013/14 academic year
Typically £11,880 a year
2014/15 academic year
Typically £11,880 a year
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees, scholarships and bursaries see www.shu.ac.uk/international/fees
• coursework • examinations • work placement by written report
Find out about work placements and how we can support your placement experience.
Optional year-long work placements are normally gained by competitive interview and are not a guaranteed part of a course.
