Management of Human Resources
This module provides a general perspective on human resource management and organisational behaviour. The topics covered include organisational structure and culture, motivation and performance management, labour markets, recruitment and selection, organisational learning and managing change.

Accounting and Finance for Business
The finance module introduces you to a range of finance systems and processes. The topics covered include profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, cash flow statements, financial analysis, and trend and ratio analysis.

Employment Law
This module exposes you to the legal framework which underpins and governs the employment relationship. The topics covered include common and statute law, contract formation, contract maintenance and termination, discrimination in employment, and health and safety in the workplace.

Industrial Relations
This module looks in depth at the employment relationship; the way in which it is formed and maintained. The individual and collective environments are scrutinised in detail. The topics covered include frames of reference and industrial relations theories, collective bargaining and incomes determination, employee participation, industrial action and comparative industrial relations.

Human Resource Development
This module looks at the way that individuals and organisations learn. The topics covered include individual learning processes and learning styles, organisational learning through mental models and the concept of a ‘learning organisation’.

Research Methods
This module prepares you for the dissertation stage, but it also enables you to become competent in manipulating HR-related data for organisational decision-making. The module provides tuition in both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

International Human Resource Management
This module builds on the Management of Human Resources module by looking at the contribution that the HR function can make in the international environment. It is primarily directed towards multinational corporations. The topics covered include international recruitment and selection, international performance management and employee relations in multinational firms.

Strategy
This module addresses the broader concepts of corporate and business strategy and provides the opportunity for you to identify where HR strategy integrates with higher level strategy. The module topics include force field analysis, marketing and total quality management.

Dissertation
The dissertation is a 15,000-word piece of independent research into an aspect of human resource management or organisational behaviour.