University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 20

ECTS credits : 10

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 2

Availability restrictions: Not available as an optional module for any programme.

Planned timetable: To be arranged.

The module reviews a range of contemporary and critical issues relating to the practise, problemising and theorising about human resource management (HRM). The place of HRM within discourses about organisational purpose and performance and is well established. A growing literature also challenges us to consider a wider set of narratives concerning the ethical and responsible management of organisations and their people and the role of HRM in delivering against this agenda. The curriculum of the module will address HRM from this multiple-perspective approach by considering a range of relevant topics such as the black box of the performance-HRM debate, the power-control nexus in HRM, the reality of employee engagement and employee voice; HRM in not-for-profit organisations, the ethics of simultaneous offshoring and downsising strategies, HRM and the ethical management and control of organisations. Each year, the curriculum would change as relevant to reflect current issues and concerns in the discipline but each year, drawing upon contributions from a number of practitioners, academics and researchers, students will be challenged to engage with and reflect upon the meaning and reality of contemporary issues in HRM.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: Lectures, seminars and practicals.

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%


Re-assessment: An alternative project of up to 3,000 words = 100%

Personnel

Module teaching staff: Mr M J Dowling, Guest speakers