GO UNIVERSITY  Ghana/Global 2016/17/18/19

BA Human Resource Management  Course  3 Years

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Overview

Throughout the world businesses are seeking professionals with the skills to manage one of their most valuable resources: people.

This industry-accredited degree allows you to study human resource management (HRM) using a combination of economic, political, psychological and sociological methods. You’ll develop analytical, quantitative, computing and other transferable skills required by employers as well as a mature understanding of the modern economy, the nature of business and the role HRM can play within it. Optional modules will allow you to study diverse topics such as corporate social responsibility, diversity management and business ethics among many others.

 

Course Content

Our degrees have a modular structure. This means that compulsory modules provide you with the core knowledge and skills that you need, while optional and discovery modules allow you to shape your course to suit your personal interests and career aspirations.

A suite of compulsory modules in Year 1 will give you a broad introduction to the nature of businesses and those who work within them. You’ll study organisational behaviour the sociology of work, organisation theory and an understanding of the nature of leadership. At the same time, you’ll put this into the context of the broader economy and the institution which directly impact on business and employees.

You’ll build on this foundation in the following year, when you’ll examine how the principles of organisational behaviour work in practice. Compulsory modules will also consider management culture, the reshaping of the organisation in the 21st century, industrial relations and the legal and economic context in which businesses operate and recruit and retain employees. Optional modules will give you the chance to examine a broader topic like corporate social responsibility or marketing.

When you reach your final year, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of employment law and examine the challenges and principles of human resource management. In addition, you’ll select from a wider range of optional modules on topics from management consulting to gender and equality in the workplace, or employment relations around the world. The culmination of your studies is your dissertation – an independently researched project on a topic of your choice that allows you to demonstrate your knowledge and skills.

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Course Structure

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Enterprise in Action 10 credits

• Leadership in Business 10 credits

• Personal Tutorials for HRM 10 credits

• Economic Institutions (Labour) 10 credits

• Economic Institutions (Industry) 10 credits

• Business and Society (Combined) 20 credits

• Organisational Behaviour 20 credits

• Economics for Management 20 credits

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• Year 2

• Compulsory modules

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• Management, Work and Organisations 10 credits

• Contemporary Industrial Relations 10 credits

• Contemporary Human Resource Management 20 credits

• Labour Economics 10 credits

• Business and the Legal Environment 20 credits

• HRM Research Practice and personal tutorials 20 credits

• Optional modules

• From Study to Work 10 credits

• Industrial Economics 10 credits

• Marketing 20 credits

• Corporate Social Responsibility 10 credits

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• Year 3

• Compulsory modules

• Human Resource Management Dissertation 40 credits

• Strategic Human Resource Management 20 credits

• Employment Law 20 credits

• Optional modules

• Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective 20 credits

• Diversity Management 20 credits

• Business Ethics 20 credits

• Information Management in Organisations 10 credits

• Strategic Management 20 credits

• Global Perspectives on HRM and Employment Relations 20 credits

• International Business Management 20 credits

• Managing Across Cultures 20 credits

• Contemporary Management Consulting 20 credits

• Management Decision Making 20 credits

• Learning and teaching

• You’ll be taught through lectures, tutorials, workshops and practical classes. You’ll enjoy extensive tutorial support and have freedom in your workload and options.

• Read more about teaching and assessment on the School website.

• Assessment

• You’re assessed by a range of methods, including formal exams and in-course assessment.

• Read more about teaching and assessment on the School website.

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• For more information on typical modules, read Actuarial Mathematics BSc in programme catalogue after enrollment