Human Resource Management and Development by Distance Learning: The University of Manchester

International Development: Human Resource Management and Development by Distance Learning

Course description

Advancing technology means the world is getting smaller. Put your HR career on the global stage with a degree that focuses on managing people across borders and putting human resources into an international context.

With more and more people working for international corporations or global international supply chains, the study of international human resources and industrial relations is becoming ever more important. The increasing globalisation of the economy and pan-national employment legislation also means the ability to compare processes and practices across continents is a sought-after skill.

This CIPD-accredited course is extremely advantageous in securing a career in HRM. It gives you an understanding of the differences between the employment practices and industrial relations systems of varying countries and multinationals, and how they are influenced by social and economic factors.  You also look at the influence of economic integration on changing systems of employment and industrial relations.

Successful completion of the course entitles you to Graduate Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Close links are maintained with local branches of the CIPD via guest speakers. You gain real-life experience and boost your CV through workshops by leading HR practitioners and attending a live employment tribunal case. The CIPD awards an annual course prize for the best performance on the course.

Module details

Students follow a guided programme of eight course units and a dissertation. All students undertake the core module in teaching period one. After that, students are free to study flexibly, subject to the modules available at any time. However, students who follow the `normal study' route take three modules in the first year and the remaining four modules in the second year. A dissertation is undertaken in the first half of the third year. Thus in `normal study' students complete the full Master's programme in two and a half years: students who start in January 2010, for example, will normally complete by July 2012.

The following modules are taken:

• Core issues in Human Resource Management (15 Credits)
• Human Resource Development  (15 Credits)
• Human Resource Practice (15 Credits)
• International Management (15 Credits)
• Organisational Behaviour (15 Credits)
• Organisation Development (15 Credits)
• Training and Development (15 Credits)
• Research Methods (15 Credits)

Entry requirements

Academic entry qualification overview:

Applicants will normally be expected to hold a Bachelors degree with a Second Class Honours, Upper Division or equivalent. The programme has been designed to accommodate participants from a broad range of backgrounds and relevant professional experience will be taken into consideration as a qualification for entry to the programme. Applicants who do not fulfil all the entry requirements for the Masters degree may be registered as Postgraduate Diploma or Certificate students. Such students whose performance has met the standard required at Master's level at the end of the fourth module proceed to the remaining modules and dissertation. Students whose performance has met only the standard required at Diploma level proceed to the remaining modules (excluding the reserach methods module). On satisfactory completion of all the modules they are awarded the Postgraduate Diploma.

English language: Applicants whose first language is not English should meet the following language requirements:

• an IELTS Test score of 6.5 or more overall with a minimum writing score of 6.
• or a TOEFL Test (Paper-based) score of 575 or more with a minimum score in Test of Written English of 4.5
• or a TOEFL Test (Computer-based) score of 232 or more with a minimum essay rating of 4.5
• or a TOEFL Test (Internet based) score of 88 or more with a minimum writing score of 22.

Applicants whose language of academic instruction for at least 1 year has been English may be exempted from this requirement, at the discretion of the Institute.