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Master of Human Resource Management |
Program Objectives
The objectives of the Master in Human Resource Management are to:
- To develop an understanding of theory and practice in the overall human resource management areas
- To help students prepare effectively, through broadening their knowledge, skills and ability for a career as human resource specialists
- To inculcate a sense of appreciation for innovative thinking in human resource management areas, particularly in understanding organizational theory and its application to organizational development
- To develop the ability to sensibly solve issues involving employees and the organization
- To provide a reliable basis for further professional or educational enhancement in the future.
Placing the right people in the right job is the most important role of human resource management. To carry out this task, the human resource management itself must be staffed with the right people in the first place. This is a requirement that a human resource department should fulfill if it wants to recruit people with the right skills. Today, employees are looked upon as assets who can help to meet organizational goals. Therefore, trained and qualified human resource professionals should and would have an edge in the job market.
This program provides students with the opportunity to enhance their skills and knowledge in human resource management and to manage people in organizations effectively.
Core Courses |
Subject Name |
Credit |
Human Resource Management
This course emphasizes a pragmatic approach to the study of managing human resources. Common themes include human resource management potential link to contribute to organizational success and employee well-being and the relationships that exist between employers and employees. This course explores the role of human resource managers and provides a comprehensive foundation to managing human resources for non-human resource managers.
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3 |
Organizational Behaviour
This course provides an overview in understanding people at their work place. It discusses a systematic approach to understanding the actions and attitudes of people that take place in organizations by using organizational behavior theories and models. This course also discusses on the individual differences and personality, perceptions, motivation and its relationship with rewards, teams and groups, different types of power, conflict and negotiations, organizational design and structure and culture in an organization.
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3 |
Human Resource Planning, Recruitment and Selection
HR planning, recruitment and selection have become the focus of widespread attention in recent years. Thus, this course explores the basis requirements of HR planning, recruitment and selection in an organization. It focuses on the importance and the major components in the process of HR planning, recruitment and selection. Emphasis is also given to the link between the HR planning, recruitment and selection, and their current trends, issues and challenges.
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3 |
Training and Development
Developing effective training programs is a significant concern for today’s managers. This course explores a range of theories, concepts and models underpinnings of training and development in organizations. This module emphasizes on structural considerations and processes vital for managers in planning training and development programs at the micro level. Emphasis is given to main methods used to train, develop and evaluate employees in an organization.
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3 |
Organizational Development and Change
This course attempts to explain an in-depth study of organization-wide interventions designed to develop the organization and to implement change in the organization. Tools and alternatives for developing and improving the organization from a holistic management approach are discussed in this course. This course also explores the organization development of consultants role as a change agent.
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3 |
Career Development
This course explains the basics of career management to include the necessity of career development and defines career success. Next, this course emphasizes on general progression and adult life cycle stages. The roles of organization, managers, employees and HRM professionals must play in career development are discussed prior to identifying several career development tools and activities that can be used by HRM professionals in implementing career development efforts. Before ending the course with a look at implementing and evaluating career development systems, this course describes several career issues and challenges.
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3 |
Performance Management
This course introduces the concepts and principles of performance management in an organization. It concerns the processes on how organizations plan, coach, review, reward and recognize their individual and organizational performance. This course also highlights the importance of a balanced scorecard, a 360-degree feedback in achieving high performance, and the current issues and challenges in performance management.
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3 |
Compensation Management
This course examines the development of organizational compensation management systems. It highlights the approaches on how organizations design their compensation management systems in an effort to enhance their recruiting, motivation and retention of employees and subsequently to enhance their organizational performance. This course also examines the influential of government, union and legislative framework in determining the work
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3 |
Industrial Relations
This course discusses issues pertaining to work and industrial law. Topics covered include employment contract, employer and employee obligations, terms and regulations of work as well as management prerogatives. Principles of wrongful behavior and domestic investigations are emphasized. This course also discusses matters with regards to industrial relations, workers’ union, collective bargaining, collective agreements, industrial disputes and resolutions.
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3 |
Occupational, Safety and Health
This course emphasizes on the key aspects of occupational safety and health at a workplace particularly for employees. It discusses the legal frameworks of OSH, how to conduct risk management, OSH audits, inspections, training programs, stress management, measuring OSH performance and how to communicating OSH in an organization. Issues and challenges in OSH are also explained.
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3 |
Cross Cultural Management and Diversity
The impact of globalization and workforce diversity in business require employees develop their cross cultural competence to work effectively in international assignments, with diverse work teams and customers; and to compete with diverse competitors, suppliers and other stakeholders. Thus, this course tries to look at the effective cross cultural management and the issues to be faced while working abroad. This course also emphasizes at the international organizational behavior and human resource issues and practices in transnational organizations
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3 |
Business Research Methods
This course focuses on the research elements, components, processes in scientific research, the purposes and why business research methods are importance. The topics also emphasized on the various types of research, characteristics of scientific research, methods of reasoning, and hypothetico-deductive method. Following that, formulating research problem, research objectives, theoretical framework, hypothesis, research design, data collection methods, scale and measurements, reliability and validity, data analysis methods, report writing and presentation are discussed.
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3 |
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Specialized Project Work |
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Subject Name |
Credit |
Project I |
3 |
Project II |
3 |
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