MSc Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations

at University of Manchester

Course unit details

During the course you will be taking 180 credits in all. The eight taught modules during semester one and two total 120 credits and consists of both compulsory and optional taught units which can be viewed in the list below.
 

Over the summer period, you will carry out your Research Dissertation, worth 60 credits.  Examples of recent dissertation project topics include:

• Employment security in domestic privately owned enterprises in South China
• The role of unions in gender equality
• The fairness of reward management and implications for staff retention
• Disability discrimination
• Organisational boundaries and temporary agency staff
• Work-life balance in China
   

Course unit list

The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
 

Title

• Workplace Research and Analysis Skills
• Multinationals and Comparative Employment Systems
• Employment Law
• HRM: Strategy and Practice
• HRM: Context and Organisation
• Employment Practice and Equality
• Industrial Relations
• International Human Resource Management
• Comparative Industrial Relations
• International Labour Law and Regulation

Academic entry qualification overview
 

We require a First or Upper Second class honours degree (2:1, with 60% average) from a UK university or the overseas equivalent, in any discipline.
 

When assessing your academic record, we take into account your grade average, position in class and the standing of the institution where you studied your qualification.  We particularly welcome applications from institutions of high ranking and repute.

• MSc (full-time)
  
  UK students (per annum): £13,500
  
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £24,000

Graduates from the programme have gone on to a wide variety of careers and further study, mostly, but not exclusively, in related fields. 

Recent recruiters

Air Astana, Amazon, Balfour Beatty, Ernst & Young, Lloyds TSB, Mckinsey and Company, MPA Consulting, Morrisons, Nestlé, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Reed Global, Shoppers Stop Ltd, Sony, TATA Consultancy Services and Tesco plc.