100% Online MBA with Human Resources Management
- Apply by : 11 Jun 2024
- To start : 24 Jun 2024
- Total fees : £8,400
- Per module fees : £700
Complete within 24 months
Step into a career that puts people at the centre of business with St Marys’ 100% online MBA in Human Resource Management
St Mary’s University London’s 100% online MBA in Human Resource Management enhances your knowledge of economics, cost-based decision making, corporate financial management, operations, marketing strategy, organisational management, corporate planning and more. In our digital classroom, you will apply the theories you learn to real-world workplace challenges, collaborate and work effectively in teams across and within functional areas, enhance your communication skills, sharpen your critical and analytical thinking, deepen your ethical decision-making in business contexts, and proactively anticipate rapidly changing business challenges in a global economy.
The human resource management specialisation comprises three courses designed to help enhance your knowledge and ability in talent management, employment law, and labour law. You will learn about:
The human resource management specialisation comprises three courses designed to help enhance your knowledge and ability in talent management, employment law, and labour law. You will learn about:
- current and emerging HRM best practices
- how to apply strategic initiatives
- how to recruit and manage the right people
- how to solve a broad range of complex challenges in human resources
- developing a workplace culture that engages workers, develops leaders, and creates a creative and inspiring workplace.
You’ll develop your capacity to:
- develop a comprehensive strategic human resource management approach incorporating alternative methods for managing people in an organisation
- design effective planning frameworks for talent acquisition, initial induction, and individual and team-based development to support optimal performance within the workplace
- formulate retention strategies adaptable to future organisational developments and evaluate the impact of diversity and engagement on organisational success
- analyse change management processes and develop innovative solutions for effective change management
- build change management plans based on cultural, technological, organisational structure, and leadership factors, and evaluate the effectiveness of change and monitor the process to enable change success factors
- design inclusive and equitable policy frameworks that address diversity and engagement-related issues, formulating comprehensive diversity and engagement plans that incorporate best practices and align with organisational goals and values.
And grow your career
Business need for human resources managers is expected to increase by 7% by 2031. The MBA in Human Resources Management equips you with the management skills needed to handle industry pressure and workplace challenges by pursuing a career in HR in roles such as: Head of HR, HR Director, HR Manager, Learning & Development Manager, Senior HR Consultant, Employee Engagement Manager, HR Operations Manager and more.
With a programme designed for you
Are you looking to grow your career, but need to keep earning while you learn? This programme prepares the HR leaders and managers of the future with fundamental business skills and specialised human resources knowledge without the need for a study break. You will be able to access your module materials anytime and anywhere with completely online and part-time study and balance your learning with other life commitments including work and family.
Programme Modules
Strategic Human Resource Management
Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills necessary to align individual and team-based activities with an organisation's mission and vision and to optimise the workforce’s contribution to achieving its long-term ambitions. You’ll adopt a balanced approach to strategic human resource management study, synthesizing both academic theory and practitioner experiences, from a broad range of operating environments. As such, you’ll be able to review and evaluate an organisation's current operating environment, developing frameworks to diagnose workforce-related problems and proposing solutions, as well as anticipating and preparing for unseen organisational challenges.
£700.00
Organisational Change & Development
Examine methods to improve organisational effectiveness. You’ll study organisational change, including the concept of planning change, the basic roles and styles of the change manager, as well as resistance to organisational change and how to overcome it. You’ll discuss all aspects of dealing with the people aspects of organisational change from the perspective of a change leader or consultant. Topics cover personal change, models and frameworks for change, methods for changing corporate culture and mindsets, approaches to strategy execution, and techniques for implementing new organisational designs and technologies.
£700.00
Diversity & Employee Engagement
Equip yourself with a thorough understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by workplace diversity, and suggest techniques to effectively manage and maximize the benefits of diversity. You will be guided through a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively manage diversity based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, ability, national origin, and intersectionality in organizations as well as issues various groups face
£700.00
Business Strategy
Gain a perspective on organisations, both within and outside of the for-profit business world. You’ll apply learned strategic analysis and managerial thinking to organisations to make better decisions that improve the competitive position and provide value for its key stakeholders. Finally, you’ll explore the main theories, concepts, and models of strategic analysis and their role in management practice.
£700.00
Finance for Managers
Examine the key financial fundamentals necessary for managing an organisation's operational activities and achieving its strategic goals. You’ll learn about the time value of money, investing in various instruments, making critical decisions regarding capital expenditures, and various methods for successfully capitalising the firm. Managing critical cash flows and allocation of financial assets are also discussed from a managerial perspective.
£700.00
Economics for Managers
Explore key economic concepts, theories, analytical techniques and the economic fundamentals. You will learn about the supply and demand model, the fundamental market model where trade-offs and choices are considered by comparing benefits and costs. Product and market structures are also analysed at the firm level, while macroeconomic issues of fiscal and monetary policy are explored at an aggregate level. Finally, you’ll gain an understanding of selected topics in international trade, financial markets, economic growth, and positive and negative externalities.
£700.00
Financial Accounting and Analysis
Many business decisions throughout every level of an organisation are based on the information found in the company’s financial statements. Explore how small and large process changes can increase organisational efficiency and profits through analysing financial statement information. Finally. you’ll examine how decisions made about capital projects, long-term investments, and a company’s risk aversion impact the bottom line.
£700.00
Leadership & Organisational Behaviour
Equip yourself with the skills and characteristics necessary to be an effective leader. You’ll learn how to apply leadership skills during change and in multicultural and diverse environments. The common thread throughout the course will be leading with strong managerial ethics, emotional intelligence, and reflective leadership. You’ll also explore the relationship between contemporary leadership issues and classical leadership theory.
£700.00
Marketing Management
Explore the design and implementation of the best combination of marketing efforts to carry out an organisation's strategy in its target markets. You’ll develop an understanding of how an organisation can benefit by creating and delivering value to its customers, and stakeholders, and the skills in applying the analytical concepts and tools of marketing to such decisions as segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion.
£700.00
Operations Management
Gain a deep understanding of operations management and how it is critical to your success in any field, from consulting to entrepreneurship to general management. You’ll explore the major problems and decision processes of operations management such as operations strategy, process and capacity planning, facilities planning, aggregate planning, materials planning, and quality planning.
£700.00
Business Intelligence & Visualisation Tools
Business Intelligence (BI) uses historical data to better understand and thereby improve business performance, as well as create new strategic opportunities for growth. Part of this process is to display the results in graphical images for easier understanding.
Examine the technologies used to support organisational decision-making. You’ll develop an understanding of data organisation, and examine the BI processes and techniques used in transforming data into knowledge and value. Various functions and applications of business intelligence are described, including but not limited to reporting, online analytical processing, data visualisation and business process management.
£700.00
Research Methods for Business and Management
Develop your understanding of research in general and business. You'll address both academic business research and business consultancy research and examine the concepts and theories underlying research, as well as the practice of research. This course has an applied focus. You'll identify a feasible research topic through readings and assignments and develop a research proposal for academic business or business consultancy research. You will examine how research problems and questions are identified and the process of achieving thoughtful, effective, and efficient research design. You will also investigate the importance of the literature review and how to carry it out for optimal effectiveness in research. You will also study the philosophical and epistemological assumptions underpinning the research approaches and methodologies, as well as their role in determining the design and implementation of the research. Finally, you will also examine the ethical aspects of research and consultancy.
£700.00
Next start and application due date
Apply by : 11 Jun 2024
Start on : 24 Jun 2024
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