Program Overview

Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management

Overview

The Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management is a part-time course that equips students with the knowledge, skills, and competencies required to excel in HR roles. The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and offers a thorough and highly relevant learning program.

Course Description

The course explores people management practices and policies, with a strong emphasis on how they help organizations achieve improved performance. It sets the HRM specialism firmly within the broader field of business, management, and corporate strategy. Students gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of organizations, how they are managed, and the external challenges they face.

Course Structure

The course consists of two stages: Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma.

Postgraduate Certificate

• Developing Professional Practice: This module equips students with a set of analytical tools and techniques to enhance their professional development, personal effectiveness, and credibility at work.
• Human Resource Management in an International Context: This module deepens students' understanding of the external, internal, business, and managerial contexts of different organizations, including the impact of internationalization and globalization.
• Leading, Managing, and Developing People: This module evaluates major contemporary research and debates in HRM, including how HR practices influence business outcomes and how the value of the HR function can be measured.

Postgraduate Diploma

• International Resourcing and Talent Development: This module examines a range of talent management strategies to attract, identify, develop, engage, retain, and deploy individuals with high potential.
• Advanced Diversity and Inclusion: This module explores strategic workplace diversity and inclusion in terms of communication and training, addressing workplace behavior and analysis of trends.
• Strategic Employment Relations: This module aims to focus on different perspectives of employment relations, power, authority, and the cooperation and conflict that varies between workplaces.

How You Will Learn

Students develop their knowledge through taught lectures, case studies, role-play, debating, student presentations, enquiry-based learning, and problem-solving activities. The course builds students' ability to present and justify intellectually rigorous arguments.

Assessment

The CIPD recognizes that assessments need to be more innovative, practical, and work-based in order to provide application to the workplace. Therefore, the assessments on this program are all coursework.

Careers

The Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management proves invaluable for career development, progression, and professional status. Graduates now work across the world in HR management and director positions in public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.

CIPD Membership

CIPD membership is highly sought after by employers looking to recruit to HR positions, and this course prepares students to meet the continuing professional development (CPD) requirements of the profession. On successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, students will have completed the knowledge criteria requirements for Advanced CIPD membership and will automatically gain Associate status of the CIPD.

Entry Requirements

• A degree of at least a 2:2, or equivalent
• If the first language is not English, a proficiency in English (IELTS 6.5)
• Relevant work experience

Additional Costs and Optional Extras

• CIPD membership fees

How to Apply

Please look at the application deadlines before applying. The University's undergraduate and postgraduate course pages will show the intakes that are available and open to applications. It's best to apply early to secure a place and beat the rush.