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Target audience

Our CIPD accredited Human Resource Development masters course is designed for HR professionals who are implementing and developing their organisation's strategies for staff learning and development. Drawing on the latest research and approaches, the course helps you increase the value of HRD to your organisation's performance. The Human Resource Development masters is also suitable for graduates wanting to begin a career in this fast-evolving area.

 

Programme

HRD is an exciting area of HR, informed by continuous new ideas and research - and this programme's content is very much informed by latest practice. It is suitable for those already working in HRD as well as those wishing to start a career in staff training, learning and development.

 

Structure

The course has four compulsory modules Effective Leadership and Management; Strategic People Management and Development; Facilitating Learning Development and Change; and Creating and Sustaining an Organisational Learning Culture. Part-time students do the first two modules in their first year and the latter two modules in their second year.

 

Placement

All full-time MA students (January and September start) do a three-month placement which forms the basis of the dissertation. MA HRD students who are already working in HR can apply for exemption from the placement and instead base the dissertation on current work.

 

Record of learning and development

Throughout the course you will keep a unique record of learning and development which ensures our graduates are exceptional reflective practitioners.

 

Step-off points

We have introduced a seamless framework, with step-off points at postgraduate certificate (after two modules), postgraduate diploma (after four modules and a management report) and MA level (after four modules and a dissertation).

 

The course is 15 months full-time and 24-27 months part-time.

 

We offer a range of modes of delivery. Full-time students attend the taught modules over two terms, then undertake a three-month placement and then have a further three months to complete the dissertation. Part-time students normally attend over four terms and then complete the dissertation over one or two terms. Compulsory modules are taught during weekdays and in the evening. You will normally not need to take more than one afternoon a week off work if you are taking the course part-time. There is a requirement to attend residential training programmes for both full-time and part-time and this is included in the fees.

 

There is a range of assessment methods including examinations and coursework, including essays, case study assignments and groupwork.

 

Creating and Sustaining an Organisational Learning Culture (30 Credits) - Compulsory

To create and sustain an organisational culture and environment that is driven by a strategic Human Resource Development agenda and within which individuals potential, creativity and diversity is harnessed in such a way as to create value in terms of intellectual capital, learning capability and the achievement of organisational goals.

Effective Leadership and Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory

Working alongside Strategic People Management and Development this module forms part of the Post Graduate Certificate level of the Masters in Human Resources. It aims to provide grounding in the core competencies related to management and leadership in the organisation enabling students to apply theory to practice in management. Alongside this, it will provide opportunities to develop personal skills through workshops and a residential event in leadership and team building.

Facilitating Learning, Development and Change (30 Credits) - Optional

To provide specialist Human Resource Development practitioner/specialist with a framework for Facilitating Learning and Development Interventions that takes a critical and strategic view of theory and practice in respect of the development of people and organisations.

Leading Organisational Change and Innovation (30 Credits) - Optional

This module enables the participant to recognise the importance for enabling and facilitating organisational change creatively, thereby enhancing the organisation s ability to innovate and thereby adding value internally and externally. The participant will develop a consulting approach to change which appreciates the need for innovation, creatively, learning and culture change, within the sphere of personnel and organisational development.

MA HRM/HRD Dissertation with Research Methods (60 Credits) - Compulsory

The dissertation is the culmination of the learning process at Masters level. It is the mechanism through which students add to organisational knowledge in order to enhance performance and at the same time contribute to broader theoretical debates. The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and synthesise their learning in human resource management through a predominantly self-managed in-depth study leading to an IN-COMPANY dissertation. Research methods sessions provide students with the knowledge framework and the skills necessary for undertaking a dissertation.

Strategic People Management and Development (30 Credits) - Compulsory

Working alongside the effective Leadership and Management module, this module aims firstly to provide grounding in the strategic management and development of people in the organisation thus complimenting study of elective modules. Secondly to provide understanding of business strategy in order to formulate appropriate human resource strategies and thirdly to apply theory to practice in the development of the appropriate professional skills needed to operate effectively as a human resource partner to line management. In fulfilling these aims it aims to take a macro to micro view of the human resource function.

 

Entry Requirements

We welcome applications from graduates with a good honours degree, or equivalent qualification, in an appropriate subject. We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications and individuals with a minimum of three years' work experience. Those without formal qualifications need to demonstrate relevant work experience and the ability to study at postgraduate level.

English language requirements

You must have competence in English language and we normally require Grade C GCSE or an equivalent qualification. The most common English Language requirements for international students are IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL (paper based) 575 or TOEFL (internet based) 90 with specified minimum scores for each component.

 

 

Professional perspective and employment market

Our MA Human Resource Development graduates are highly successful in obtaining well-paid employment and many receive several job offers. As a graduate you will have excellent career prospects and the range of potential employers will be vast including within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

 

Where do our graduates go?
Based on data from the respondents of the 2007 Destination of Leavers in Higher Education survey, six months after graduating

• 90% of Middlesex MA HRD graduates were in employment
• 10% were doing something else, such as travelling

 

 

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