Human Resource Management (Top-Up)

Why Human Resource Management?
This top-up course lets you build on your existing knowledge and skills to understand the role human resource management plays in a business, and how you can play a part in the industry too.

If you’ve already studied a business subject to diploma level and you want to understand the world of HR, then this course could be ideal for you.

How will you learn?
You will learn through practical application and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions.

• This course will focus on the strategic elements of people resourcing and the contribution that these activities can make to organisational success and achieving a high performing workforce in a rapidly changing environment.

• You’ll be given the opportunity to understand the professional skills needed in the HR industry including how to recruit and inspire staff.

• You’ll have the chance to develop your potential as a Human Resource Management (HRM) professional while looking at wider industry issues too in order to help you develop your business acumen.

• You’ll have the chance to build up a knowledge of how HRM can help to create a high performance workplace, all by attracting, retaining, developing, managing and rewarding staff.

• You'll have the opportunity to learn broader range management theories (in relation to strategy and cross cultural management) which will help you to analyse and solve problems in a globally interconnected environment.

What subjects will you cover?
You’ll explore subjects such as People Resourcing, Human Resource Development, Employment Relations, Strategy in Context, The Future of Work and Managing Across Cultures.

Reasons to study Human Resource Management (Top-Up)

1. Our staff rank in the top three in England for the proportion who hold doctorates, who have higher degrees, and hold teaching qualifications (HESA 2022).
2. We are second in the country for National Teaching Fellowships, which mark the UK's best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 18 since 2008.
3. Study at an AACSB International accredited Business School. Globally, less than 6% of institutions offering business degrees achieve this accreditation.

Year 1
Core modules:
People Resourcing
Human Resource Development
The Future of Work
Employment Relations
Managing Across Cultures
Strategy in Context

All our courses give you an overview of:
• contact time with your tutor
• time spent on independent study
• how you will be taught, assessed, and receive feedback

Take a look at the Teaching and Assessment information on our course page.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Chartered Management Institute
• Personnel and Development, Chartered Institute of
• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business