This course equips you with the knowledge, skills, behaviours and graduate competencies that employers value and need, in line with the CIPD professional accreditation. You explore key areas of human resource management (HRM) such as talent management; operational management; leadership and motivation; data management and interpretation; selection and recruitment; and employee relations.

You may also take up opportunities to engage with real-life HRM problems, allowing you to carry out practical projects that emulate working as a professional manager.

Course accreditation

We are an accredited Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) centre. This means all our HRM courses are professional-body accredited, giving you access to Level 5 accreditation and increasing your employability in the HRM profession, on successful graduation.

Your student experience

Learn from expert tutors, active within the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and in both consultancy and research.

Develop your understanding of how HRM works with other business disciplines, enabling you to fit into numerous organisation roles.

Apply what you have learnt to real-life situations experienced by companies and organisations globally.

Build the confidence and problem-solving skills needed to be an effective manager across a range of organisations and settings.

Benefit from HRM-focused employability events throughout the academic year, including careers fairs and immersive CV events.

Learn from employer site visits and visits to the University by employers and local HR managers, who to share their HRM stories - a great way to network and ask questions relating to HRM career development.

Gain from having regular engagement and support from CIPD members and branch officials, helping you make a smooth transition into the world of HRM employment.

## Modules

#### Course Modules

Applied numeracy for business – Develop key numeracy skills vital for your future employability. Beginning your professional business journey – Take on business challenges and collaborate with peers in a professional environment. Human resource management foundations – Understand the organisational issues relating to staff, the role of HRM and the key HR professional standards. The role of HR in the digital age – How the digital economy and future of work is changing the landscape of people management.

HR and work in organisations – Identify, understand and evaluate people’s behaviour in organisations and the relationships between the organisation, individuals and groups. People resourcing and development – An overview of the way different organisations manage resourcing and development activities, and which practices are most effective.

Employability and the future workplace – Prepare for future employment, with a clear awareness of the skills and attributes you bring to a HR role. Employment law – Study the law governing the employment relationship and the regulation of working life, including the influence of European law. Data and research methods for business – Investigate research and data-analysis methods to support you in applying research findings to business issues.

Innovative practice in HRM and HRD – How to manage and share knowledge in an organisation, and boost performance through human resource development. The strategic context of HRM – Build a sound understanding of the business and external factors affecting organisations and the impact of these factors on the HR role. Employment relations – Develop the skills to make informed decisions about current and emerging employment relations and employee reward practices.

Developing professional human resource management practice – Build your personal and professional effectiveness alongside your understanding the practicalities of the people profession. Management and leadership – Using real-life examples of current organisational issues, learn to solve problems by applying management and leadership principles. Contemporary issues in the workplace – The importance of people professionals in understanding and anticipating workforce needs.

HR analytics and data – Understand how data is analysed and utilised in HR, and the ethical issues and limitations attached to using HR/people information. Business project – Independently design, plan, manage and execute a research project.

Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate at the point of publication on the UCAS website. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to our website.

### Assessment method

In line with the Business School's commitment to practice-based education, a large part of the assessment will relate to your demonstration of your ability to do HRM in practice. We will want to see that you understand the theory and have developed critical thinking skills which help you evaluate the relevance of what you have learned. All of this comes together in being able to demonstrate rigorous human resources practice for an organisation.

To assess this range of integration of theory and skills into sound practice, we use a range of methods. You will encounter many different kinds, including the ones listed below, some of which are used in combination, for example a report might be required as an outcome of a time-limited assessment task.

* Reports: you analyse a business problem and propose solutions.

* Presentations: present proposals as if to your boss, a board or a client.

* Time-limited tasks: on a set day, you will be given a task which you will need to complete in a set time, such as 48 hours or five days.

* Academic writing: used to demonstrate clear, critical thinking, you might be asked to write an essay or a short summary of a theoretical debate.

* Appraisals: just as in business, you use appraisals to assess your own learning and to set your personal and academic development objectives.

* Projects: these are assessed in a number of ways depending on the task defined by our business partner. Typically, you will need to prepare an analysis, report or presentation which is suitable for the business partner and a longer piece of work which sets out the behind the scenes' work which underpinned the output for business.

It is in the longer work that we expect to see explicitly your application of theory and critical thinking which underpin good HRM practice. You will usually also prepare a project review.

* Project reviews: you analyse and evaluate the way you worked on a project and set out how you would work more effectively on a similar task in future.

* Exams: as well as conventional exams using set questions and case studies, exams can be the outcome of a group task. You might work on a large task together and then sit an exam to show your individual learning from the task.

* Portfolio: you will plan and record your CPD activities using the CIPDs HR Profession Map as a guide to the knowledge, skills and behaviours you need to develop to be ready to work in HR.

For all assignments you will have an assignment brief which clearly sets out what is required and you will be given the criteria which your tutors will use to mark your work. All units have a form of non-graded formative assessment which feeds into the summative methods of assessment; this may come directly from tutors or from your peers and self-assessment. You will receive feedback on all your assessments.

If you use this feedback, you will be able to improve your learning and your grades on future assignments.

## Ways to study this course

#### Campuses

* Luton Campus

#### Study options

* Bachelor of Science (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years

#### Start dates

## Apply by

13 January 2027

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### Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

* Year 1

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## Entry requirements

### Typical qualification requirements

UCAS Tariff

Offer: 96

Scottish Higher

96 UCAS Tariff points

Access to HE Diploma

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

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