Why choose Herts?
- A bang-up to date, market leading programme, taught by expert HR practitioners and researchers
- CIPD accredited graduates can become Chartered member with relevant experience.
- Industry led and informed, vocational, skill based teaching
People are the lifeblood in any business and Human Resource Management (HRM) plays a pivotal role in helping companies, large and small, get the most out of this most important asset.
The Hertfordshire HR MA programme will develop your HR practitioner skills and know-how to nurture and maintain a happy, fulfilled, effective and responsible workforce.
Full or Part time study options available. Full time study takes one year and part time study in bite-sized modules takes two years.
Develop professional accreditations. Accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and provides associate membership.
Learn from supportive, experienced HR specialists. With the benefit of first-hand knowledge, your teaching team help you develop an expert understanding of the role human resources plays in modern organisations.
Enhance your employment prospects. A dual accredited postgraduate and professional qualification is the gold standard ‘expert’ qualification that will boost your career. CIPD membership opens up opportunities for professional development and Chartered membership.
Build Industry Connections. At Hertfordshire Business School you can attend business networking events, meet HR keynote speakers, and form your own life-long industry peer group with fellow students.
About the course
If you love managing, helping and developing people, you’ll thrive on this contemporary and relevant post-graduate course. Learn how to manage employees effectively, recruit and motivate talent to ensure success and reward your best performers.
With technology increasing our connectivity across nations and cultures, workforces are increasingly global, diverse and more remote than ever. Attracting the best talent from an international pool has raised new opportunities and challenges for HR managers.
Central to this course are the themes of how to manage such change across personnel development, addressing real issues facing businesses such as equality, diversity and climate organisational change.
Explore the role human resources plays in modern organisations, developing both theoretical knowledge and practical skills, which you can apply to your current role from the start.
Understand how progressive organisations can, and do, respond to challenges arising from today's changing work environment embracing an innovative, forward-thinking approach.
Learn to think in radical ways to manage diverse attitudes and motivations of people entering the labour market. Discover how to work across departments to promote inclusive and productive environments, enabling your employees and organisation to thrive.
The intrinsic link between HR management, an organisation’s strategic and operational requirements, and the impact on society, can be powerful. Embrace relevant and practical tools needed to respond to a range of HRM issues.
Freshen your perspective with new ways of thinking about work and the role organisations play in the world, as you build the foundations needed to become a critical, inspiring leader of the future.
Full-time study – this study route is available to all prospective students
The full-time course, taught on campus and with some online teaching, can be completed in one year.
The sandwich and advanced research pathways are two years full time.
Part-time study – this study route is not available to students requiring a visa to study
A course designed to fit around work and family.
Classes are one evening a week for two academic years from a September start date, and two and a half academic years from a January start date.
You can also select a flexible mode option with online delivery. This is a combination of live online sessions once a week with supporting online material.
Tailor your path
We offer a variety of pathways so you can specialise in your area of interest. The below pathways can be combined e.g. Global Sandwich or Global Advanced Research. For any questions about our pathways please email Adrian Thornley, Programme Leader.
- MA Human Resource Management
- MA Human Resource Management (Global)
- MA Human Resource Management (Work Psychology)
- MA Human Resource Management (with Advanced Research)
- MA Human Resource Management (Sandwich) with a work placement
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