Course overview

This industry-accredited degree combines strategic business management with a specialist focus on human resource management (HRM), preparing you for a range of exciting management careers. You'll graduate with eligibility to gain associate membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an accolade that is highly sought after by graduate employers in the HR sector.

You’ll gain a thorough knowledge of key topics in management and HRM, such as organisational behaviour, industrial relations, business and society, marketing, and the economic environment for businesses.

Pathways

This programme offers pathways from Year 2 which will allow students to tailor their course to their specific interests or professional aspirations. The pathways will provide modules that can be taken in particular areas and followed through to their final year. This allows a level of personalisation and self-direction not previously available on this programme, providing students with a degree of flexibility to meet their own needs.

The pathways available on this programme are:

• Finance
• Ethics and Sustainability
• Human Resource Data Analytics

Course highlights

• Choose to take an optional year in industry gaining practical experience or spend a year studying in another culture at one of our many partner universities across the world.

• A dedicated Personal Tutor will support your academic and personal development throughout your degree. In your first year they’ll help you adjust to university learning and make the most of your time at Leeds.

• Build your knowledge of the main functions of management, ranging from accounting to marketing and strategic management.

• Develop your understanding of the skills and aptitudes employers are looking for and the practical skills needed to gain work placements or internships.

• Learn about the latest real-world HRM issues, with teaching informed by our Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change, to prepare you for a successful career in the sector.

Accreditation

Leeds University Business School has triple accreditation from the three leading bodies AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS

We’re proud to be one of a select number of universities to hold professional accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), meaning you'll graduate with the eligibility to become an associate member of the CIPD. You'll be able to demonstrate to employers that you have the skills, relevant knowledge and professional commitment to deliver on today’s business needs.

Course details

Our degrees have a modular structure. This means that compulsory modules provide you with the core knowledge and skills that you need, while optional and discovery modules allow you to shape your course to suit your personal interests and career aspirations.

Year one

Compulsory modules in your first year will give you the broad foundation you need to study business management at this level, and specifically HRM. You’ll gain an understanding of basic accounting practices and economic principles, as well as organisational behaviour and the environment in which contemporary businesses operate. In addition, you’ll learn about the theory and practice of setting up a business of your own and examine the relationships between business and societies.

Year two

You’ll examine how the theories of organisational behaviour relate to real-world situations and learn more about the research and analytical methods used in HRM research. At the same time, you’ll study contemporary developments in human resource management and industrial relations, together with labour economics and business topics such as the legal environment for business, corporate social responsibility and marketing. An optional module will allow you to focus on a topic such as decision-making, understanding data, managing in the digital workplace or supply chain management.

Final year

When you reach your final year, you’ll develop your management skills with compulsory modules in strategic human resource management, strategic management and leadership as well as gaining knowledge of employment law. Optional modules allow you to explore topics such as managing innovation, decision-making, people analytics, gender and equality or diversity management. You may also choose to study Contemporary Management Consulting as an optional module which will give you the opportunity to register with the Chartered Management Institute. If you successfully complete the module after this, you’ll gain the CMI Level 5 Certificate in Professional Consulting.

The course culminates with your dissertation, an independently researched project that you submit in your final year, allowing you to apply your research and analysis skills to a topic of your choice.

This course draws upon the latest academic research and professional practice. You’ll be taught by experienced HR practitioners and teaching staff engaged in cutting-edge research, including those active in the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC).

Course structure

The list shown below represents typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our terms and conditions.

For more information and a full list of typical modules available on this course, please read Business Management and the Human Resource BA in the course catalogue

Year 1 compulsory modules

• Personal Tutorials for HRM
• Economic Institutions (Labour)
• Accounting for Managers 10
• Economic Institutions (Industry)
• Business and Society (Combined)
• Organisational Behaviour
• Starting Your Own Business
• Economics for Management

  Year 2 compulsory modules