BA (Hons) Human Resource Management
Course Overview
This Human Resource Management (HRM) course provides a critical and comprehensive exploration of how to manage and develop an organization's most vital asset: its people. Students will learn to design and implement strategic HR practices—from recruitment to performance management—within diverse organizational contexts, including public, private, and non-profit sectors. The program equips you with the essential analytical skills to question established HR "best practices" and to thrive in the modern, complex world of work.
Key Program Highlights
- Critical examination of HR "best practices" and the wider social, economic, and political environments of work.
- Focus on strategic HR functions including recruitment, motivation, training, performance management, and employee relations.
- Application of learning across diverse sectors, from traditional businesses to employee-owned and non-profit organizations.
- Instruction by award-nominated faculty with rich industry experience and cutting-edge research expertise.
- Development of essential critical thinking and analytical skills to effectively manage and adapt within modern organizations.
Course Overview
This Human Resource Management (HRM) course provides a critical and comprehensive exploration of how to manage and develop an organization's most vital asset: its people. Students will learn to design and implement strategic HR practices—from recruitment to performance management—within diverse organizational contexts, including public, private, and non-profit sectors. The program equips you with the essential analytical skills to question established HR "best practices" and to thrive in the modern, complex world of work.
Key Program Highlights
- Critical examination of HR "best practices" and the wider social, economic, and political environments of work.
- Focus on strategic HR functions including recruitment, motivation, training, performance management, and employee relations.
- Application of learning across diverse sectors, from traditional businesses to employee-owned and non-profit organizations.
- Instruction by award-nominated faculty with rich industry experience and cutting-edge research expertise.
- Development of essential critical thinking and analytical skills to effectively manage and adapt within modern organizations.
Requirements
Modules
- The Global Business Environment: An Introduction
- HeadStart
- Accounting and Finance for Managers
- Our Blue Planet
- Ecology: An Introduction
- Introduction to Computing Science
- Economic Decision Making and Markets
- Why is the world like this? Economic perspectives on society
- Introduction to Education: Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology
- Introduction to Literary Studies: Genre
- Building Planet Earth
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Personal Finance
- Media 1: An Introduction to Media Studies and Industries
- The French-Speaking World 1
- Introductory French 1
- People and the Environment
- Renaissance Reformation and Revolution: Scotland 1542-1715
- The Making of Modern Britain 1707 to 2000: An Introduction
- Introduction to Journalism Studies
- Language and Society
- Mathematics I
- Discrete Structures
- Philosophy: What is it all About?
- People, Power, and the State: An Introduction to Politics
- Religion in the Modern World
- Spanish and Latin American Studies 1
- Introductory Spanish 1
- Introduction to Sociology and Criminology
- The Management Challenge: An Introduction
- Our Thirsty Planet: Man and the Aquatic Environment
- Introduction to Physiology
- Programming and User Interface Design
- Introduction to Data Science
- Understanding the Wider Economy
- Introductory Economics
- Introduction to Education: Politics, Policy and Practice
- Introduction to Literary Studies: Theories & Approaches
- Landscape Evolution
- The Moving Image
- The French-Speaking World 2
- Introductory French 2
- Global Environmental Issues
- Concepts of History: Themes and Transformations
- Ethical Issues in Journalism
- Foundations of Language
- Practical Statistics
- Mathematics II
- How Should We Live?: Philosophy, Ethics, and Life
- Political Concepts and Ideas
- Religion Colonialism and Nationalism
- Spanish and Latin American Studies 2
- Introductory Spanish 2
- Applying a Social Policy Lens
- Wicked Problems, Sustainable Solutions
- People Management
- Introduction to Aquatic Environments
- Evolution and Genetics
- Data Structures, Objects and Algorithms
- Scripting for Data Science
- Economic Decision Making and Markets
- Why is the world like this? Economic perspectives on society
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Literary Revolutions
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Personal Finance
- Reading Film & Television
- The French-Speaking World 1
- The French-Speaking World 3
- Introductory French 1
- Intermediate French
- Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach
- Renaissance Reformation and Revolution: Scotland 1542-1715
- The Making of Modern Britain 1707 to 2000: An Introduction
- Reputations in History
- Language and the Brain
- Analysis I
- Fundamentals of Sustainability in Management
- Fundamentals of Marketing
- From Plato to Existentialism
- Philosophy: What is it all About?
- People, Power, and the State: An Introduction to Politics
- Understanding International Politics
- The Social Mind
- Religion and Culture: Problems of Representation
- Spanish and Latin American Studies 1
- Spanish and Latin American Studies 3
- Introductory Spanish 1
- Intermediate Spanish
- Understanding Global Sport
- People, Policy and Practice
- External Reporting
- Biodiversity
- The Organisation of Business
- Managing Information
- Systems
- Programming Language Paradigms
- Statistics for Economics, Business and Management
- The Biosphere
- Finance II
- Digital Media and Culture
- The French-Speaking World 4
- Operations Management
- Optimisation in Theory and Practice
- Numerical Analysis
- Socially Responsible Marketing
- Moral Theory
- Comparative Politics - States, People, Power
- Great Political Thinkers
- Research Methods
- Brain and Behaviour
- Global Retailing in Society
- Spanish and Latin American Studies 4
- The Development of Social Theory
- Foundations of Sport Development and Coaching
- Science of Diving
- Introduction to Digital Storytelling
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Writing and History: Scotland and Empire
- Writing and Theory
- Writing and Language
- Environmental Resilience
- Rebellion and Enlightenment: Scotland 1713 to 1815
- Linear Algebra
- The Business of eSports
- Knowledge and Mind
- Inventing Religion: Origins, Methods and Critique
- Statistical Techniques
- Spanish and Latin American Studies 2
- Introductory Spanish 2
- Wicked Problems, Sustainable Solutions
- Learning and Development
- HRM in Context
- International Business
- Responsible Business
- Strategic Management
- Environmental Economics
- Business Analytics
- Innovation Management
- Leadership and Management
- Marketing Analytics and Brand Creation
- Sport Marketing
- Multi-Channel Retail Marketing
- Retail Strategy and Operations
- Resourcing and Talent Management
- Reward in Practice
- Contemporary Employment Relations
- International Business
- Responsible Business
- Strategic Management
- Business Analytics
- Innovation Management
- Leadership and Management