HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT at Canterbury Christ Church University

Human Resource Management is concerned with the recruitment of employees, their development and reward, commutations, and performance management.

You will develop knowledge and skills in a broad range of subjects that impact directly on business performance and competitiveness. You will also gain an understanding of leadership and how the behaviours of individuals and teams contribute to the success of organisations.

You will explore areas including:

• contemporary business issues
• employee development and employee relations
• management and leadership.

Why Human Resource Management?

Human Resource Management is concerned with the selection and recruitment of employees, their learning, development and reward, communications, teamwork and performance management. It is also concerned with understanding management and leadership, and the ways that the behaviours of individuals and teams contribute to the success of organisations.

The benefits of studying Human Resource Management at Canterbury Christ Church University include the opportunity to work on real business issues and case studies, and develop knowledge and skills in a broad range of business subjects which impact directly on business performance and competitiveness.

The course enables you to go on to study professional HRM qualifications with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with us on the Advanced Diploma in Human Resource Management.

Who is this course for?

A knowledge and understanding of managing people is important for anyone planning a career in management, and especially for those wanting to work as a human resource professional. All of our degree courses in the Business School have an emphasis on employability and links to professional bodies and Human Resource Management is no different. It has been designed to enable you to gain professional body qualifications. On successful completion of the course, you will meet the professional expectations of prospective employers.

Studying HRM at undergraduate level will provide you with a good foundation for future professional studies and can open up opportunities to network with local employers.

What will i study?

Year one provides a varied and interesting introduction to the business environment in the key areas of management, financial accounting, marketing, economics, and quantitative analysis. It provides the essential foundation to the whole course whilst allowing flexibility to choose a variety of pathways in the second and third years of study.

In year two you will study human resource management, employment law and employee development, combined with a choice of optional modules taken from the Business School Framework, including management and leadership and project management.

Year three will involve the study of strategic human resource management, and employee reward and resourcing, together with a range of optional modules chosen from the Business School Framework, including service management, business ethics and strategic management.

Work experience

The programme provides students with the opportunity to take a work-based learning module in year two and the opportunity for a placement year between years two and three. Students have undertaken a variety of interesting placements and are often given responsibility very early on in their placement years.