MSc International Human Resource Management and Comparative Industrial Relations / Course details
Year of entry: 2024
- View tabs
- View full page
Course description
People are at the heart of workplaces. Managing and developing them is essential to help organisations achieve their goals, and support employees to thrive and lead meaningful working lives.
- Learn about the differences between the employment practices and industrial relations systems in diverse countries and multinationals
- Understand how social and economic factors influence variations in practice and systems
- Study the influence of economic integration on changing systems of employment and industrial relations
- Gain a competitive edge in the job market studying a course accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
CIPD Course recognition
The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) offering the ability to fast track your career through professional membership.
All students attend a series of compulsory workshops which focus on your personal skills capacity building as a future HR specialist. The workshops are non-credit bearing.When you graduate, you can become CIPD Associate Member and use the designation Assoc CIPD. You may also be eligible to become a CIPD Chartered Member or CIPD Charted Fellow, depending on your experience. You join CIPD as a student member and once you have passed all course units (including the HR skills development workshops and the dissertation), you can update your CIPD membership to Associate Member. Please note to obtain Associate Member status you will need to have joined the CIPD as a student member and remain in membership throughout your programme. These costs are an individual responsibility.
Further information about CIPD qualifications >>
If you are interested in domestic human resource management you might like to consider our MSc Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations .
Teaching and learning
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. Please note that certain modules have to be taken to achieve CIPD recognition
Over the summer period, you will carry out your Research Dissertation, worth 60 credits. Examples of recent dissertation project topics include:
- Work-life balance: perspectives of female teachers from the UK and India
- Demographic change in Germany and Japan and the implications for the labour market
- A comparative study of gender discrimination at work in the UK and China
- The impact of support practices on expatriate adjustment in a Russian multinational corporation
- Coping mechanisms of Nigerian women balancing motherhood and managerial roles
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 | Code | Credit rating | Mandatory/optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workplace Research and Analysis Skills | BMAN60261 | 15 | Mandatory |
| International Human Resource Management | BMAN60992 | 15 | Mandatory |
| Multinationals and Comparative Employment Systems | BMAN70051 | 15 | Mandatory |
| HRM: Strategy and Practice | BMAN70231 | 15 | Mandatory |
| Comparative Industrial Relations | BMAN71911 | 15 | Mandatory |
| International Labour Law and Regulation | BMAN71922 | 15 | Mandatory |
| HR Skills Development | BMAN72180 | 0 | Mandatory |
| The Management of International Organizational Change | BMAN62082 | 15 | Optional |
| HRM: Context and Organisation | BMAN71242 | 15 | Optional |
| Employment Practice and Equality | BMAN72382 | 15 | Optional |
| Displaying 10 of 12 course units | |||
| Display all course units | |||