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Credit:5
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Module Option: Compulsory
The course examines influences on employment, employability, career choice and career development. Key trends in employee management in a range of workplaces, including unionized and non-union, manufacturing and services, and domestic and multinational are also examined with the overall aim being to engender confidence and awareness of the challenges associated with career development.
The objective is to give you an understanding of the main concepts and models that underpin HRM, as well as a critical assessment of the relationship between theory and practice in HRM in contemporary workplaces.
Topics covered
Employability:
- Skills and skill development
- Using social networks in your job and internship hunt
- Application forms
- Networking, postgraduate study and your career service and beyond
- Ethics and behavior at work
- CVs, applications and using your careers service
- Recruiter panel - What I look for in a CV or application
- Interviews
- Theories of employability
Human Resource Management (HRM)
- What is HRM?
- Strategy and HRM
- HR planning
- HRM in a global context
- The employment relationship
- Labour market regulation and management styles
- Trade unions and collective bargaining
- Rewards and performance
- Discrimination and diversity
- Conflict and resistance at work
Learning outcomes
- Develop a career development plan, based on a detailed understanding and analysis of the work environment
- Analyze employability and the recruitment process in a global context
- Identify and critically assess the roles of a range of influences on employment, employability, career choice and career development
- Distinguish trends in employee management in a range of workplaces, including unionized and non-union, manufacturing and services, and domestic and multinational
- Explain the rationale for a range of specific HRM policies and practices, such as recruitment and selection, appraisal and rewards, and diversity management
- Critically assess the problems associated with the design and implementation of HRM policies and practices, as well as their impact on employees
Assessment
- Summative individual portfolio [2000 words] (40%)
- Three-hour written examination (60%)
The course examines influences on employment, employability, career choice and career development. Key trends in employee management in a range of workplaces, including unionized and non-union, manufacturing and services, and domestic and multinational are also examined with the overall aim being to engender confidence and awareness of the challenges associated with career development.
The objective is to give you an understanding of the main concepts and models that underpin HRM, as well as a critical assessment of the relationship between theory and practice in HRM in contemporary workplaces.
Topics covered
Employability:
- Skills and skill development
- Using social networks in your job and internship hunt
- Application forms
- Networking, postgraduate study and your career service and beyond
- Ethics and behavior at work
- CVs, applications and using your careers service
- Recruiter panel - What I look for in a CV or application
- Interviews
- Theories of employability
Human Resource Management (HRM)
- What is HRM?
- Strategy and HRM
- HR planning
- HRM in a global context
- The employment relationship
- Labour market regulation and management styles
- Trade unions and collective bargaining
- Rewards and performance
- Discrimination and diversity
- Conflict and resistance at work
Learning outcomes
- Develop a career development plan, based on a detailed understanding and analysis of the work environment
- Analyze employability and the recruitment process in a global context
- Identify and critically assess the roles of a range of influences on employment, employability, career choice and career development
- Distinguish trends in employee management in a range of workplaces, including unionized and non-union, manufacturing and services, and domestic and multinational
- Explain the rationale for a range of specific HRM policies and practices, such as recruitment and selection, appraisal and rewards, and diversity management
- Critically assess the problems associated with the design and implementation of HRM policies and practices, as well as their impact on employees
Assessment
- Summative individual portfolio [2000 words] (40%)
- Three-hour written examination (60%)