MSc INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Overview

Mode	Duration	Start date	Application code	Application method
ModeFull-time (with optional 3-5 week internship)	Duration12 months	Start dateSeptember	Application code5473	Application method Direct to LSBU
ModeFull-time (with 12 month internship)	Duration24 months	Start dateSeptember	Application code5726	Application method Direct to LSBU

International students

The course is not currently open to international students.

International (non Home) applicants should follow our international how to apply guide.

Home/EU applicants

Mode	Duration	Start date	Application code	Application method
Mode Full-time (with optional 3-5 week internship)	Duration 12 months	Start date September	Application code 5473	Application method Direct to LSBU
Mode Full-time (with 12 month internship)	Duration 24 months	Start date September	Application code 5726	Application method Direct to LSBU

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Suggested reading

• Harzing, A. W & Pinnington, A. (2011) International Human Resource Management, Sage.
• Briscoe, D.R & Schuller, R.S & Tarique, I. (2011) International Human Resource Management: policies and practices for multinational enterprises, Routledge.
• Edwards, T & Rees, C (2011) International human resource management: globalization, national systems and multinational companies, FT/Prentice Hall.

The programme focuses on the management of human resources in international companies and the issues associated with management of staff abroad. You'll develop a strategic view of the importance of globalisation in helping international organisations compete and understand the multi-faceted dimensions of international HRM, which include cultural, institutional and legal contexts. Acquire, modify and integrate key contemporary and relevant HRM knowledge to help fulfil individual career aspirations.

Core modules

• HRM in international context
  The module focuses on the examination of HR theories, concepts and principles in an international context.
• People management and leadership
  This module examines essential people management and leadership techniques and practices, which enable employees to engage with and to contribute, creatively and innovatively, to corporate and strategic goals.
• Creativity, enterprise and innovation
  The module encourages students to question what they see and experience around them with an aim to enhance their creativity and to discover new and improved ways of doing things.  
• International and comparative employment relations
  This module introduces students to the main actors in employment relations and the employment relations strategies employed in contemporary organisations. It then locates those strategies in an international context, examining them in a variety of countries and sectors.
• Strategy in international HRM
  The module investigates and analyses current practice and developments in strategic HRM with full regard to the international context. It focuses clearly on the importance of strategic HRM as being a key to the success and competitive edge of today’s organisations.
• Curiosity, creativity and research
  This module introduces students to the research process, the mind-set of the researcher and in particular to the idea of creativity in research and what it means to be a ‘creative researcher’.
• Research in action
  The module focuses on the nature, approaches, methods, tools and techniques of research within relevant disciplines from the business environment. Thus the module is practically oriented towards the completion of a research proposal that will form the basis of the final practice-based project module.
• Management consultancy in a global environment
  This module is designed to develop professional consultancy skills by studying organisational structure and culture, situational analysis and diagnosis, communication strategies for consulting and group dynamics
• Capstone business project
  This capstone, independent research project draws upon the students’ skills and knowledge gained thus far enabling application of learning to a scenario resulting in added value to an organisation and creating real world impact.

One optional 20 credit module

• Social Media Marketing and Digital PR
  This module provides a practical introduction to social media networks and tools (such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, the Internet Of Things, online PR and affiliate networks) and their application within marketing. The module examines the key characteristics of social media marketing strategies and identifies the theoretical underpinnings such as trust, loyalty, and customer engagement and also trends and usage patterns to provide a framework through which to understand and evaluate them. In addition, the module looks at the importance of researching and selecting the most appropriate digital channels to reach and engage with the target audience. It covers the tools and digital PR activities that can be used to extend the reach on social media, content management and online campaigns. It also examines the legal and ethical considerations that marketing in a digital world raises.
• Investment Management and Behavioural Finance
  This module is designed to provide students with an understanding of the theory and practice of investment management, particularly as it relates to the UK. The coverage will include portfolio creation and management, asset allocation and stock selection, and portfolio performance measurement, including the use of benchmarks and their relationship with performance targets and portfolio risk. Building upon the established, conventional principles of finance and then moves into psychological principles of behavioural finance focusing on contemporary issues. Errors and bias permeate the entire financial landscape affecting individual investors, institutional investors, analysts, portfolio managers, currency traders, financial executives amongst others. Students will understand how human impacts on the decision making of financial agents
• Contemporary Issues in People Management
  This module offers participants the opportunity to explore four highly pertinent, contemporaneous, and important issues in the field of Human Resource Management. These issues are (a) Employee Engagement (b) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (c) Reward Management and (d) Employee Voice. These issues have received much attention in recent years. Employee (or work) engagement is often seen as the ultimate goal of HR practitioners, as research indicates that engaged employees and workers offer significantly increased positive outcomes for organisations. Similarly, the topics of EDI, Reward and Employee. Voice are increasingly acknowledged as areas of pivotal concern for organisations who seek to embrace and utilise talent, regardless of where and how that talent presents itself. The business case argument for organisations to adopt a strategic approach to these issues is considerable.
• Managing Project Value and Change by PRINCE2
  This module introduces the PRINCE2 project management methodology as a means to provide understanding of how project value can be created through effective change management and innovation. These vital elements in the advancement of projects are developed through defining various responsibilities and authority level so that routine changes can be dealt with efficiently and innovatively in order to create value.
• Global Operations & Logistics
  The global marketplace is typified by new and changing trade agreements, advancing ICT, product and service innovations, improved transport and shipping within a constantly changing regulatory environment. This module introduces students to the ways in which logistics management adds value to the flow of materials into and through manufacturing facilities, and to the distribution of products to consumers as firms endeavour to remain competitive. The module places emphasis on recent trends in the globalisation of the operations and logistics function, and explores the scope of alternatives in; organising international production and distribution, alternative strategies for competing in the global marketplace, the advantages of locating manufacturing facilities abroad, and which products should be allocated to offshore facilities.
• Big Data Analytics
  Big Data Analytics include tools and techniques from Data Science for the transformation of raw big data into meaningful and actionable information for business analysis. Every major industry has powerful transaction-oriented systems, which store the big data gathered from daily operations into repositories. To remain competitive, enterprises need the ability to rediscover and utilise the big data they already hold. The module will provide students with the skills to derive insights from a pool of big data available, delivering precise, actionable and timely inputs for decision making
• Governance and Leadership
  The module examines the area of governance and leadership within organisations in the broad context of the agency relationship and focuses on the respective roles and responsibilities of directors and officers to organisational stakeholders. The module explores internal review and feedback to implement and support effective governance and leadership. The module also assesses key aspects of responsible management and covers personal and professional ethics, ethical frameworks – and professional behaviour and conduct in a variety of contexts.
• Managing Virtual Work
  Virtual Work’ relates to all aspects of digital media use at work and remote or hybrid models of working. Virtual work is omnipresent in business and management today across sectors and affects work behaviours on all levels. To be successful, employees, leaders and employers need to understand the impact, the challenges and the opportunities of virtual work, of different digital tools and platforms and different models of onsite, remote and hybrid working. This module introduces course participants to core components of virtual work, such as virtual/hybrid teams, virtual leadership, managing remote employees, clients or collaboration partners, and virtual organisations more generally, and identifies and discusses current issues, for example in supporting well-being, managing conflict, negotiation and diversity and inclusion in virtual work.
• Everyday Sustainability for Business
  Sustainability, CSR, ESG are all consistent topics in business management and this module introduces the student to addressing these issues in a practical, integrated and coherent manner. The contents of the module reflect this by looking at everyday sustainability from a project’s conception to the end of life. The module contents are delivered with references to current events as they evolve and invites the students to draw their own conclusions to how current events impact on everyday sustainability and how to address problems arising from changing business demands.
• Brand Management
  This module provides a strategic and tactical approach to learning and applying the key theories, frameworks and models of current brand marketing to solve management problems. This module will prepare the student for a career in brand management by using a practical approach for the application of complex theoretical ideas. The module examines a broad range of knowledge taken from product management, service management and brand strategy.
• Organisational Risk Management and Internal Controls
  This module explores the role of risk management processes within organisations and how effective internal review, control and feedback can be implemented to support effective governance. This module will consider the compliance issues related to decision-making and decision- support functions of risk management and how an effective strategy can be implemented to manage risk using internal control processes. The module also examines the whole area of identifying, assessing, and controlling risk as a key aspect of responsible management.