Human Resource Management

This flagship CIPD-accredited postgraduate diploma programme is ideal for professionals who require CIPD accreditation but don't require an MA.

This programme is identical to the MA Human Resource Management, except you do not complete the dissertation.

Available part-time and full-time, it offers a range of topics and experiences across human resource management.

Special features:

• We have been teaching human resource management for more than 40 years, pioneering curriculum and teaching methods
• We are one of the UK's largest departments in HRM with highly research-active staff including six professors, six associate professors and four visiting professors
• Full-time students undertake a three-month placement with the support of a dedicated placement service
• Programme designed so that working people only need to have one afternoon away from the office each week
• We have an outstanding 100% graduate employment success rate on the PGDip and MA Human Resource Management
• Graduates of this programme are eligible for graduate membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• Residential teaching weekends included in course fees January and September start dates available (January start students have restricted module choice).

September start students

The programme has two compulsory modules: Effective Leadership and Management and Strategic People Management and Development. Part-time students do these modules in their first year and select two optional modules (see list below) in their second year. Full-time students take the two compulsory modules and two optional modules concurrently. This is followed by a management report.

January Start students

The programme has four compulsory modules: Effective Leadership and Management; Strategic People Management and Development; Managing the Employment Relationship; and Managing Employee Reward and Demand. Part-time students do the first two modules in their first year and the latter two modules in their second year. This is followed by a management report.

Modules

• Applied In-Company Management Report (30 Credits)

The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and synthesise their learning in human resource management through a predominantly self-managed in-depth study leading to an IN-COMPANY dissertation. Research methods sessions provide students with the knowledge framework and the skills necessary for undertaking a dissertation.

• Effective Leadership and Management (30 Credits)

Working alongside Strategic People Management and Development this module forms part of the Post Graduate Certificate level of the Masters in Human Resources. It aims to provide grounding in the core competencies related to management and leadership in the organisation enabling students to apply theory to practice in management. Alongside this, it will provide opportunities to develop personal skills through workshops and a residential event in leadership and team building.

• Strategic People Management and Development (30 Credits)

Working alongside the effective Leadership and Management module, this module aims firstly to provide grounding in the strategic management and development of people in the organisation thus complimenting study of elective modules. Secondly to provide understanding of business strategy in order to formulate appropriate human resource strategies and thirdly to apply theory to practice in the development of the appropriate professional skills needed to operate effectively as a human resource partner to line management. In fulfilling these aims it aims to take a macro to micro view of the human resource function.

• Creating and Sustaining an Organisational Learning Culture (30 Credits)- Optional

To create and sustain an organisational culture and environment that is driven by a strategic Human Resource Development agenda and within which individuals potential, creativity and diversity is harnessed in such a way as to create value in terms of intellectual capital, learning capability and the achievement of organisational goals.

• Facilitating Learning, Development and Change (30 Credits)- Optional

To provide specialist Human Resource Development (practitioner/specialist) with a framework for Facilitating Learning and Development Interventions that takes a critical and strategic view of theory and practice in respect of the development of people and organisations.

• Managing Employee Reward and Development (30 Credits)- Optional

The reward element of this module explores the strategies, policies, structures and processes required to develop and manage effective employee reward. It shows how reward integrates with business and HR strategy. Students will develop the skills required to research and analyse reward within an organisation and to present findings and recommendations to senior management.

The employee development element aims to provide experience of the organisational process of developing people through the theory and practise of learning and development and organisational change. It takes a strategic, integrated view of the role of learning and development processes in organisations as well as developing the theory and practice expected at this level. It also provides an opportunity for students to acquire the key skills of a deliverer of learning.

• Managing the Employment Relationship (30 Credits)- Optional

This module complements generalist management foundations and provides a specialist overview of contemporary employment relations focussing on the individual aspects associated with employee resourcing, collective aspects associated with employee relations and the legal and regulatory aspects common to both areas.

• Recruitment Selection and Assessment (30 Credits)- Optional

To equip those studying the programme with the knowledge and operating skills in all the principal aspects of People Resourcing

• Total Reward (30 Credits)- Optional

Total Reward is a strategy that organisations adopt to motive staff by financial and non-financial means, whilst aiming for high performance. All the usual pay and benefits subjects will be covered, together with a substantial input on performance management. The latter part of the programme will cover subjects such as recognition, effective leadership, learning and development, and the working environment which can strongly influence satisfaction at work.

Normally a second class honours degree or above in any discipline, or equivalent professional qualifications. For those who do not meet these entry qualifications, Middlesex offers the 10-day intensive Advanced Diploma in Personal and Professional Effectiveness.

English Language Requirements

If your first language is not English, you should have a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 or TOEFL 575 (paper-based), 231 (computer-based). CAE score: Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) is part of the Cambridge English suite and is targeted at a high level (IETLS 6.5-8.0). It is an international English language exam set at the right level for academic and professional success. Developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment - part of the University of Cambridge - it helps you stand out from the crowd as a high achiever. 75 (Grade B)