ObjectivesThis two-staged award gives you a portfolio of the latest Human Resource Management principals and practices allowing you to maximise your contribution to this essential role The first stage – Leadership/Management and PMD field – focuses on the essential skills of the HR professional including people management and development The second stage – the electives in Human Resource Management – examines employment law, employee relations, employee resourcing and reward, and learning and development You will cover three of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) fields of study: Core Management, People Management and Development, and elective fields The University of Wolverhampton Business School offers a fast-track membership upgrade scheme allowing you to bypass the Graduate stage of CIPD membership to a Chartered member The course features a distinctive international residential
Entry requirementsYou should normally have at least one of the following: -A degree or equivalent -NVQ or SVQ Level Four in a related subject plus two years relevant organisational experience -CIPD Certificate in Personnel Practice, or Training Practice, or Recruitment and Selection plus two years relevant experience -Mature students without formal qualifications, but with significant management/HR experience, are welcome to apply
Academic titlePGCert/PGDip Human Resource Management
Course descriptionFuture prospects
You gain specialist HRM knowledge and direct membership of the CIPD
Completion of any one CIPD field of study will give you Licentiate membership
Graduate membership is achieved by completing either the Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management or the Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Development and the CIPD Fourth Field: The Thinking Performer
Completion of the programme gives you direct entry to the School's MA Human Resource Management or MSc Human Resource Development and Organisational Change
Successful completion of the Diploma would give you the ability to claim some exemptions from our Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Typical modules may include
-Employee Relations
-Employee Resourcing and Reward
-Employment Law
-Learning and Development
-Management Report and CPD
-Managing People and Activities
-People Management and Development
-The Strategic Business Context and Managing Information
-Work-based Project and Personal Development Journal