This degree is aimed directly at practising human resource management professionals involved with training and development, industrial relations or general personnel management, and those wishing to enter the profession.
The degree is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to manage the human resources of an organisation at a senior level. The program seeks to integrate various specialisations within the field of human resource management into a broad framework. The design of the program recognises the barriers that once existed between specialists in training, industrial relations, selection and recruitment, and organisational development, are quickly disappearing in modern organisations. Issues such as enterprise bargaining, multi-skilling, occupational health and safety, and employee involvement are forcing practitioners to take an integrated, strategic view of human resource management. The structure of the Masters program reflects this enhanced role for human resource professionals.
Wagga Wagga campus
Distance education
3 years (6 sessions)
The Master of Business (Human Resource Management) has professional recognition from the Australian Human Resources Institute.
Applicants are required to have an undergraduate degree from a recognised Australian tertiary institution or a qualification deemed to be equivalent. Applicants with other academic and/or professional qualifications and/or work experience acceptable to the University will be considered.
Applicants who are not successful in gaining entry into this course may be offered admission to the Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management which comprises the first four subjects of the Masters program and is available on a fee paying basis.
To graduate, students must satisfactorily complete 12 subjects. The course is only available by distance education, and includes one residential school each year. The residential school will normally be of five days duration and will usually be held on campus in February.
HRM502 Human Resource Management
HRM501 Labour Market Studies
MGT501 Management Theory & Practice
LAW515 Law of Employment
HRM522 Applied Personnel Management
HRM504 Work Organisation
HRM523 Advanced Studies in Industrial Relations
HRM527 Issues in Training & Development
HRM528 Strategic Human Resource Management
HRM507 Research Methods or
HRM509 Organisational Change or
HRM514 International HRM
HRM529 Research Project (16 point subject)*
or
HRM512 Values & Conflict in Organisations
and
HRM531 Organisational Politics & Culture & Change Management
or
INR510 Comparative Labour Relations
or
HRM516 International Management Behaviour
*Students who elect to do the research project in Session 6 will not be required to undertake a second subject in that semester: HRM529 Research Project is equivalent to two subjects.
Course Coordinator
Rob Macklin
School of Management
Telephone: (069) 33 2658
Facsimile: (069) 33 2790
Email: rmacklin@csu.edu.au
Last Revised: 25 November 1996.
