Course description
Modules
Core modules:
-The Operating Environment
-Organisational Strategy and Management Practice
-Managing Information Strategically
-People Resourcing Strategies and Practice
-Employee Relations Strategies and Practice
-Learning, Training and Development
-Management Research Report and Continuous Professional Development Log
Optional modules (candidates must choose one of the following):
-Career Management and Development or Management Development
-Employment Law
-Performance Management
Accreditation
Nottingham Business School has an established reputation for providing high-quality CIPD courses and has been recognised as a Centre of Research Excellence by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Assessment
With the exception of one module, each is assessed via an examination and coursework. In addition, you will be required to write a 10,000-word Management Research Report on a work-based topic that you have researched, and submit a portfolio of your continuing professional development.
Course content
To ensure that you gain the qualification and skills appropriate to your current employment or future career, you can choose to specialise in one of the following routes:
Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management
This route allows you to select any of the optional modules and undertake the management research project in any discipline.
Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Development
This is route is specifically designed for human resource development/learning and development practitioners. You will study the Career Management and Development module and undertake the management research project in a learning, training or development discipline.
Postgraduate Diploma in Employment Relations
This route is specifically designed for employee relations practitioners. You will study the Employment Law module and undertake the management research project in the discipline of employee relations or law.
Guidance will be provided to help you to decide on the appropriate route to undertake.
Employability and careers: life after university
CIPD Graduates with five years HR experience can apply to be upgraded to Chartered Members MCIPD and those with 10 years experience may apply to become Chartered Fellows FCIPD.
Graduate employability
After successful completion of this course students will become graduate members of the CIPD. Graduates of this course have gone on to become Senior HR practitioners.
How do you study?
We aim to develop your skills by:
-utilising your individual life and work experiences;
-applying theory to relevant organisational contexts, both real and simulated;
-focusing on group as well as individual activities;
-incorporating a wide range of teaching and learning materials.
While some teaching and learning will be centred on lectures to develop your knowledge and understanding of certain issues, classes will typically adopt a workshop approach in order to involve and engage you in a shared learning process.
Generally, in the first year you will attend one afternoon and evening weekly. There will be occasional whole-day sessions (i.e. 9 am-5 pm). In the second year there will be full day sessions and study blocks.
There will be a requirement for delegates to attend a three day residential event during the second year of the programme.
Inductions
The course commences with a two day induction held in September.
Professional recognition
Nottingham Business School has an established reputation for providing high-quality CIPD courses and has been recognised as a Centre of Research Excellence by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) – one of just a handful in the UK. The School is one of the UK’s leading full-service business schools, providing a wide range of Business and Management education services for individuals and organisations. The School’s reputation within the international and global business world continues to go from strength to strength as a result of its consistent performance in terms of accreditation, student performance and research, and its impressive client base.
Resources and facilities
Nottingham Business School’s professional approach to management education is supported by a suite of state-of-the-art teaching rooms and the latest in communication and information technology. The School provides a high quality management learning environment, designed to encourage creative thinking about real world issues confronting managers and their organisations.
