Module code: HRM7007-A
To provide the student with a critical understanding of HRM and its changing role within the business and social environment.
1 ) HRM and the Organisation: Managing the Employment Relationship: the nature of the employment relationship and the labour market context; History of People Management: the evolution of management systems (e.g. Taylorism) Models of HRM and Approaches to the Subject (debates between Michigan and Harvard Schools; international variants).
2) HRM and Change: Labour Market Factors and Recruitment Development Performance & Reward systems Involvement Stakeholders and Negotiation; the processes of undertaking change.
3) The syllabus covers ESD issues through its study of equal opportunities policies and diversity management, social partnership arrangements as a source of resolving conflict and conflict resolution in the employment relationship.