Human Resources Management with Law

This course equips you with the knowledge, skills, behaviours and graduate competencies that employers value and need, in line with the CIPD professional accreditation. You explore key areas of human resource management (HRM) such as talent management; leadership and motivation; data management and interpretation; and employee relations. The additional law element ensures you have a good understanding of areas such as employment contracts and immigration, and you can manage people effectively while working within relevant legal frameworks.

Course Accreditation/Industry Endorsement

• We are an accredited Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) centre. This means all of our HRM courses are professional body accredited, giving you access to Level 5 accreditation and increasing your employability in the HRM profession, on successful graduation.

Partnerships and Collaborations

• The Law team work closely with local law firms and often encourage students to engage directly with these legal experts.

Your Student Experience

• Learn from expert tutors, active within the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and in both consultancy and research.

• Develop your understanding of how HRM works with other business disciplines, enabling you to fit into numerous organisation roles.

• Apply what you have learnt to real-life situations experienced by companies and organisations globally.

• Build the confidence and problem-solving skills needed to be an effective manager across a range of organisations and settings.

• Benefit from HRM-focused employability events throughout the academic year, including careers fairs and immersive CV events.

• Learn from employer site visits and visits to the University by employers and local HR managers, who to share their HRM stories - a great way to network and ask questions relating to HRM career development.

• Gain from having regular engagement and support from CIPD members and branch officials, helping you make a smooth transition into the world of HRM employment.

• Academic Skills For Business (SHR008-1) Compulsory
• Business Practice Explored (BSS005-1) Compulsory
• Contract Law (LAW007-1) Compulsory
• Foundations Of Business Communication (BBS003-1) Compulsory
• Human Resource Management Foundations (SHR007-1) Compulsory
• The Role Of Hr In The Digital Age (SHR009-1) Compulsory
• Employment Law (LAW012-2) Compulsory
• Employment Relations (SHR020-2) Compulsory
• Immigration And Asylum Law (LAW020-2) Compulsory
• Innovative Practice In Hrm And Hrd (SHR015-2) Compulsory
• People Resourcing And Development (SHR016-2) Compulsory
• Planning Careers And Employability (BSS030-2) Compulsory
• Practice Weeks: Career Planning (BSS008-2) Compulsory
• The Strategic Context Of Human Resource Management (SHR017-2) Compulsory
• Company Law (LAW009-3) Compulsory
• Developing Professional Human Resource Management Practice (SHR011-3) Compulsory
• Dissertation In Human Resource Management (SHR012-3) Compulsory
• HR Analytics And Data (SHR019-3) Compulsory
• International Human Rights Law (LAW005-3) Compulsory
• Management And Leadership (SHR017-3) Compulsory
• Practice Weeks: The Future You (BSS023-3) Compulsory
• Preparation For The Dissertation (BSS058-3) Compulsory

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In line with the Business School's commitment to practice-based education and to a learning experience which is active, reflective, collaborative and creative, a large part of the assessment will relate to the demonstration of your ability to do HRM in practice. We will want to see that you understand the theory and have developed critical thinking skills which help you evaluate the relevance of what you have learned. All of this comes together in being able to demonstrate rigorous Human Resource practice for an organisation.

Methods of assessment vary according to the learning outcomes of a particular unit and the stage of the study. You will be assessed using a range of assessments during your studies. This will include a mixture of closed book examinations, coursework, reports, tests, posters, group work and presentations.

To assess this range of integration of theory and skills into sound practice, we use a range of methods encompassing summative and formative assessments. You will encounter many different kinds, including the ones listed below, some of which are used in combination, and for example, a report might be required as an outcome of a time-limited assessment task.

• Reports: you analyse a business problem and propose solutions.
• Presentations: present proposals as if to your manager, to the board of a company or to a client.
• Time-limited tasks: on a set day, you will be given a task which you will need to complete in a set time, such as 48 hours or five days.
• Academic writing: used to demonstrate clear, critical thinking, you might be asked to write an essay or a short summary of a theoretical debate.
• Appraisals: just as in business, you use appraisals to assess your own learning and to set your personal and academic development objectives.
• Projects: these are assessed in a number of ways depending on the task defined by our business partner.

Typically, you will need to prepare an analysis, report or presentation which is suitable for the business partner and a longer piece of work which sets out the -behind the scenes' work which underpinned the output for business. It is in the longer work that we expect to see explicitly your application of theory and critical thinking which underpin good HRM practice. You will usually also prepare a project review.

• Project reviews: you analyse and evaluate the way you worked on a project and set out how you would work more effectively on a similar task in future.
• Exams: as well as conventional exams using set questions and case studies, exams can be the outcome of a group task. You might work on a large task together and then sit an exam to show your individual learning from the task.
• Portfolio: you will plan and record your CPD activities using the CIPDs HR Profession Map as a guide to the knowledge, skills and behaviours you need to develop to be ready to work in HR.

For all assignments, you will have an assignment brief which clearly sets out what is required and you will be given the criteria which your tutors will use to mark your work. Throughout the course, your learning will be supported using various methods of formative assessment and feedback which will take place both in-class and off-class activities. Informal formative feedback will be an ongoing feature of the unit and will be provided through class discussion, presentations, etc.

You are encouraged to seek feedback and use it effectively. On-line activities such as discussion boards, videos, podcasts, etc. will also provide opportunities to obtain feedback and enhance your learning experience. This is to help students progress their studies and support their continuing development. You will receive feedback on all your assessments. Using this feedback is essential to improving your learning process and your grades on future assignments.