BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management (International Year One)

MODULES

Foundation Year

CORE MODULES

Mental Wealth: Employability in a Changing World

The main aims of this module is to familiarise you with the qualities required to identify, secure and retain graduate employment in an environment of rapid change.

Developing Academic Skills for Business
 

The move from college to university requires the demonstration of skills that many new students find challenging. This module is designed to equip you with the techniques necessary for you to successfully complete your degree.

Developing Academic Literacy
 

Your assessments at UEL will require you to independently conduct research in a variety of media, develop an academic style of writing and structure your work in a specific format. This module will introduce you to the practices behind the production of successful coursework in order to help you make the most of your studies.

Inside Business
 

This module is designed to give you a broad introduction to the main functions within a business, and assess how associated decisions are made. The aim is to provide you with an understanding of the relevance of these key topics in preparation for future studies in Business or its associated specialisms.

Connecting to Business and Employment through Volunteering
 

This module provides you with the opportunity to engage in an activity as a volunteer in a social enterprise or charity. The experience will enable you to witness business processes practice and enables you to identify and try different styles of work. The activity itself will offer you with valuable networking opportunities, the development of employability skills, and experience that can enhance your CV.

The Global Business Enterprise
 

This module aims to offers you with a sound base in business and enterprise and support further studies. The module is built around developing your knowledge of the environment within which business, enterprise and entrepreneurship operate and will give you a solid scaffolding for expanding their knowledge of the area.

Year 1

CORE MODULES

Mental Wealth 1: Academic and Digital Proficiency

The module will equip you to succeed in both your studies and subsequent career. This includes the development of individual non-cognitive intelligence; digital proficiency; and cultural intelligence.

Fundamentals of Economics
 

The module aims to enable you to develop an understanding of the basic economic concepts, theories, ideas and tools and their real-world application.

Business Statistics and Data Analysis
 

The module aims to deepen your knowledge of relevant mathematical concepts and statistics used in the business world.

Foundations of Marketing
 

The main aims of this module are to introduce you to the fundamentals of the Marketing discipline, many of which are developed further in subsequent Level 5 and Level 6 marketing study.

People and Organisations
 

This module will introduce you to the variety of work organizations. You will also understand and explore the psychological, sociological and economic explanations of human behaviour in organisations.

Fundamentals of Business Accounting
 

This module will develop and prepare you for entry into the professional workplace or further studies in accounting and finance. As part of this module, you will learn and develop a sound basis of theory and principles, accounting techniques and skills necessary as a foundation for further study and practical experience in accounting.

Year 2

CORE MODULES

Mental Wealth 2: Graduate Employment Competencies

This module will provide you with the opportunity to document the development of core employability skills and allow students to acquire tangible evidence to support your employability narrative at interviews.

Managing and Coordinating the HR Function
 

The purpose of this unit is to introduce you to human resources (HR) activity and to the role of the HR function in organisations in general terms.

Resourcing and Talent Management
 

People resourcing and talent management is a specific field of HRM that is concerned with the mobilisation of the workforce; taking responsibility for ensuring that the organisation is able to access the skills it needs at the time and in the places that it needs them to drive sustained organisation performance. The module aim is for you to understand and critically evaluate the various strategies employed by organisations for managing people and their performance.

Employment Law
 

The purpose of this module is to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to brief organisations on the consequences of current and future developments in employment law,and to give up-to-date, timely and accurate advice concerning the practical application of legal principles at work in different jurisdictions. The module will provide you with the key principles that underpin UK (or Irish) and EU employment law, their purpose, the major defences that employers are able to deploy when defending cases, and the potential organisational costs and reputational risks associated with losing them. Moreover, the focus is on situations that occur relatively regularly in workplaces rather than on more uncommon or obscure legal scenarios and on advanced knowledge of legislation or case law. Employment law continues to expand both in terms of volume and complexity and the amount of regulation covering the employment relationship and the workplace has grown substantially in recent years, including additional duties placed on public bodies to actively promote equality. While organisations can source specialist advice on more complex and unprecedented issues from legal advisers, senior human resource (HR) professionals need to be sufficiently aware of major, current and coming developments in the regulatory environment to ensure organisations are fully prepared and also able to anticipate legal problems associated with proposed decisions or plans before they are implemented. In the context of increasing numbers of claims to employment tribunals, they take a leading role in handling issues and disputes at work and in leading an organisation’s response when a formal legal claim is contemplated or pursued, including preparing and presenting responses to employment tribunal claims and they need to fulfil each of these requirements to a professional standard. The module promotes critical reflection on theory and practice from an ethical and professional standpoint and provides opportunities for applied learning and continuous professional development.

Reward Management
 

This module examines total rewards in an organisational and international context. The module provides you with the knowledge of reward professionals plan; how to implement and evaluate employee reward policies to support strategic organisational goals. You will acquire both theoretical and normative understanding of the diverse approaches to reward management and you will be able to critically reflect on the strengths and limitations of these approaches in promoting individual and organisational performance in a fair, reasonable and equitable way. You will also be furnished with the knowledge of the foundations for pay and benefits management in modern organisations in the private, public, and third sectors and how these traditions can be integrated into appropriate strategic designs. You will be able to comprehend the relationship between traditional, contingent, and developmental choices of rewards, the use of diagnostic and evaluative skills in designing flexible approaches to reward and the challenges of international and executive pay arrangements. You will be able to critically reflect on theory and practice from an ethical and professional standpoint and for continuous professional development.

OPTIONAL MODULES
 

Learning and Development

The main aims of this module are to provide you an appreciation of the factors to be considered when implementing and evaluating inclusive learning and development (L&D) activities within varying organisational.

International HRM
 

International human resource management is specifically concerned with managing work and people in international context. Globalisation and the changing economic, demographic, and political landscape mean that what constitutes effective HRM and how it may best be practiced continues to develop and requires an international orientation. This module provides critical topics within the realm of IHRM that will enable you to understand the professional development of HR practitioners, which will help you in managing across national borders. The module combines the latest theory and research and opportunities for the application of knowledge to real-life, international HR issues. The module aim is to give you the knowledge, understanding and skills required by HR professionals operating within global organisations. In doing so, the module will introduce you to topics such as MNCs, international assignments and resourcing; training and development: developing global leaders and expatriates; global performance management; work-life balance within an international context; global rewards management, among others.

HRM Work-Based Reflective Practice
 

To provide you with experience of work including familiarisation with the professional work environment. The module will be underpinned by employability skills training, reflective assessment and support from the Module Leader. You will reflect through their assessment allowing all parties to engage with the process and progress before, during, and after the placement. During the placement you will be supported by your module leader to ensure that the aims and outcomes of the placement are met.

OPTIONAL MODULES
 

Optional placement

This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organisation, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. 

The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

CORE MODULES

Mental Wealth 3: Global Enterprise and Consultancy

This module will develop core employability skills and allow you to develop and demonstrate skills in (i) the analysis of a problem (ii) planning and organising a task, including time management (iii) exercising judgement in the light of observed and published data (iv) compiling a report, (v) teamwork and collaboration and (vi) use of appropriate technologies.

Applied HR Project
 

This project allows you to take a critical and analytical approach to an organisational problem within a rapidly changing and uncertain environment. You will conduct a project from conceptualisation of the problem through to reporting of the problem, and making recommendations for change.

Employee Engagement & Employment Relations
 

This module aims to facilitate your critical understanding of the approaches and underlying values of managing people within organisations, through the analysis of models and applications of employee engagement.

Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)

HRIS plays a key role in the development, implementation and maintenance of systems associated with the collection, retrieval, accessibility and usage of employee information for HR department planning and activities. You will develop skills and competencies to identify areas of opportunity to improve existing HRIS processes, functionality and work flow, and maximize technological capabilities to reduce manual processes (i.e. annual performance review process and other systems) and to improve data management and efficiency.

Strategic HRM & Leadership in Organisations
 

Business Ethics & Business Research

English Language requirements
 

Overall Academic IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Writing and Speaking; minimum 5.5 in Reading and Listening (or recognised equivalent).

If you do not meet the academic English language requirements for your course, you may be eligible to enrol onto a pre-sessional English programme. The length of the course will depend on your current level of English and the requirements for your degree programme.

International Fees Full time 3/4/5 years
£13,740 Per year

The course is ideal preparation for a career in HR - you will learn the specific, practical skills that employers need, while also learning about broader business topics that can be applied in a variety of roles and industries. The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, demonstrating to employers that your knowledge of HR will be comprehensive and up-to-date.

You will also have the option of studying an entrepreneurship module that will be valuable for students who want to start their own businesses - our very own Business Centre is an on-campus resource that can help you incubate your business ideas and secure funding.

Our location in east London gives us access to some of the most iconic, innovative and dynamic businesses in the world; from the established financial centre of Canary Wharf, to booming Stratford and the surrounding area known as the 'Silicon Roundabout'. We host events, conferences and workshops at UEL in partnership with many of the businesses that are right on our doorstep and give students the opportunity to gather experience and contacts during their degree.

This business-led approach extends all the way through the course, with the opportunity to take a work placement module, learn from business leaders in the region, visit local organisations and network with professionals.

We place emphasis on a vocational approach to teaching, allowing you to develop a wide range of employability skills through experience and training. We also have a superb employability team that works with students to find placements, projects, graduate schemes and full-time employment, combining careers advice with practical training in interview technique and CV writing.