(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of HRM and Management studies and professional competencies, much of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;
- demonstrate the understanding of more extensive knowledge in specialist areas of Management and HRM;
- accurately and effectively deploy standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the disciplines;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in HRM and Management studies;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out a significant piece of work;
- collect and analyse quantitative and/or qualitative data derived from a range of sources, making use of secondary data and primary sources;
- show a capacity for critical thinking and an ability to evaluate the value and relevance of data within the framework provided by available theory and practice;
- demonstrate strategic thinking through an understanding of strategic management concepts, theories and research, and how these inform management decision-making;
- understand the nature of strategic HRM, its impact on organisation and employees, and the principal strategies relevant to its implementation;
- understand advanced issues and debates in the application and implementation of law and policy relating to employment;
-develop specialised advanced knowledge in a choice of contemporary areas of management research.
Competence Standards
1. Identify, describe, and critically evaluate current issues, research, and scholarship in the fields of Management and Human Resource Management.
2. Demonstrate the analytical and critical thinking skills required to solve Management and Human Resource Management problems.
3. Effectively complete and communicate an original piece of research on a Human Resource Management or general Management topic, with appropriate supervision.
4. Effectively communicate and interpret data using appropriate methods.
5. Effectively work in collaboration with others with appropriate support.
6. Demonstrate development of skills needed to become a reflective and ethical practitioner of Human Resource Management and Management.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the key transferable skills and professionalism appropriate for managers;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- information synthesis skills;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature;
- the ability to undertake a research project in a chosen area relating to Management, Work and Employment or HRM, making appropriate choices concerning research methods and approach; and
- life-long learning skills such as time-management, group working, communication, planning, commercial awareness, creative problem solving, and leadership.
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the programme and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the disciplines;
- work that draws on a wide variety of academic and practice based material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct an in-depth research based enquiry within the disciplines; and
- work that is typically both evaluative and analytical.
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