Human Resources in Organisations

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
• Convenor and tutor: Roger Fagg
• Assessment: 100% unseen examination

Sessions covered may include:

• Introduction
• HR and the organisation
• Employment life-cycle from entry to exit
• Recruitment and selection
• The employment relationship
• Performance and reward
• HRS contemporary trends and challenges

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• identify, describe and apply a range of relevant approaches to deal with key strategic HRM issues
• explain the need to undertake, and the benefits and challenges of, effective human resource planning
• compare and contrast strategic approaches to recruitment, selection, development, rewards and employee exit (including consideration of a range of demographic, social, technological and regulatory trends)
• identify effective approaches to developing employee engagement and to ensuring positive employer/employee relations (including consideration of a range of demographic, social, technological and regulatory trends)
• analyse HRM practices within their own/case organisations and make suggestions for improvement
• review the respective roles of (and dynamics between) HR practitioners and other key stakeholders (both within and without the organisation) in the delivery of HR practices throughout the employment life-cycle.