Human Resources and Organisations

Course Structure

1. Management of Human Resources: Strategies and Policy (0.5 unit) will introduce students to a range of theoretical perspectives which underpin the ways in which organizations manage the employment relationship through the deployment of HRM strategy and policy. From a practice perspective, it reviews challenges involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of both overall HRM strategy and specific practice areas.
2. Dissertation: Research and Practice (1.0 unit)
3. Foundations of Business and Management for HR (0.5 unit) will be provide students with an overview of the development of management disciplines (other than HRM) and will develop an understanding of the disciplinary anchors in sociology, psychology and economics. Each field will cover origins and disciplinary boundaries, triggers for growth, core concepts and the current state of play and debate.
4. Globalisation and Human Resource Management (0.5 unit)
5. Organisational Behaviour (0.5 unit) will help students understand attitudes and behaviour in an organisational context. This will be done by reviewing psychological theories as they apply to organisations; demonstrating the contribution of a psychological perspective to understanding human behaviour at work; and critically evaluating the empirical evidence.
6. International Employment Relations (0.5 unit) introduces students to different employment relations systems in North America, Europe, and Asia, examining the causes of these national differences and their consequences for employees and firms.
7. Globalisation and Human Resource Management (0.5 unit) focuses on the strategic challenges global corporations face in managing human resources across national and organisational boundaries, and the ways in which diverse stakeholders influence these strategies.
8. Organisational Behaviour (0.5 unit) will help students understand attitudes and behaviour in an organisational context. This will be done by reviewing psychological theories as they apply to organisations; demonstrating the contribution of a psychological perspective to understanding human behaviour at work; and critically evaluating the empirical evidence.
9. Organisational Change (0.5 unit) will provide students with different psychological theories to understand the process and consequences of organisational change and in doing so addresses the following issues: type of organisational change, creating readiness for organizational change and leading change, the change agent, strategies for change, resistance to change and evaluation of and institutionalization of organisational change.
10. Organisational Theory (0.5 unit) will introduce students to various topics including institutional theory and corporate culture, sensemaking, population ecology and social networks.
11. Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Studies (0.5 unit)
12. Cross Cultural Management (0.5 unit)
13. Globalisation and Human Resource Management (0.5 unit)
14. Human Resource Management and Employment Regulation(0.5 unit)
15. International and Comparative Human Resource Management (0.5 unit)
16. International Employment Relations (0.5 unit)
17. Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5 unit)
18. Managing Diversity in Organisations (0.5 unit)
19. Negotiation Analysis (0.5 unit)
20. Organisational Behaviour (0.5 unit)
21. Organisational Change (0.5 unit)
22. Organisational Theory (0.5 unit)
23. Personnel Economics (0.5 unit)
24. Reward Systems: Key Models and Practices (0.5 unit)
25. Social Network Analysis and Strategies (0.5 unit)
26. The Dark Side of the Organisation (0.5 unit)
27. Employment Law (0.5 unit)
28. Human Rights in the Workplace (0.5 unit)
29. Business in the Global Environment (0.5 unit)
30. Leading Entrepreneurial Organisations in Global Markets (0.5 unit)
31. Social Network Analysis and Strategies (0.5 unit)
32. The Future of the Multinational Firm (0.5 unit)
33. Knowledge Processes in Organisations (0.5 unit)
34. Organizational and Social Decision Making (0.5 unit)
35. Theory and Practice of Organisational Development (0.5 unit)
36. Applied Regression Analysis (0.5 unit)
37. Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (0.5 unit)
38. European Models of Capitalism (0.5 unit)
39. Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe (0.5 unit)
40. Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: Institutions and Politics of EMU (0.5 unit)
41. International Migration and Immigration Management (0.5 unit)
42. Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (0.5 unit)
43. Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations at Work (0.5 unit)