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MA, Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate in Human Resource Management

Learn via Online Learning from a CIPD Approved Centre and University ranked Gold in Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF)

Course Start Date: May 2020

De Montfort University

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As an Approved Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Centre with exceptionally strong links to the Institute at national and local level, De Montfort University offers students outstanding learning opportunities and access to a team of highly experienced tutors.

The overarching aim of the course is to develop the skills, knowledge and abilities of HR practitioners, enabling them to approach people management in a more strategic, professionalised and effective manner. Students will benefit from a theoretical understanding of the factors in the internal and external environment which shape HRM and will acquire the skills and knowledge to design, develop and embed HR strategies in a range of contemporary workplace settings.

This course will develop your knowledge and skills in core areas of human resource management (HRM) to help you start or further your career as a HR professional. The course will also enhance your expertise in professional activities related to employee resourcing, employee development, employment relations and employment law. You will gain experience in practical problem solving informed by leading edge theory and research.

The key objectives of the course are to:

  • Equip you with the specialist knowledge, skills and competence required to advance a career in HRM
  • Provide you with the underpinning knowledge and understanding to support access to professional grades of CIPD membership including MCIPD and FCIPD
  • Benefit from the supportive and nurturing team of HRM professionals who bring the subject to life and will develop your critical thinking and analytical skills.
  • Supported online learning that allows you the flexibility to coordinate your study around work and family life.
  • The cross sectoral nature of the part time student group allows you a real opportunity to compare practices across organisations and to learn from the experiences of others over online group platforms.
  • A core advantage of being able to study and work is that you have the chance to apply your learning in practice.
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In year one, from March 2020 to February 2021, you will study Developing Skills for Business Leadership, Employee Resourcing, Leading, Managing and Developing People followed by HRM in Context.

Then, from April 2021 to April 2022, you will study Investigating a Business Issue from an HR Perspective, Human Resource Management in a Legal Context and Employment Relations. You will finish your studies with Research Methods & Dissertation.

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  • This course offers HR professionals the knowledge and practical skills to effectively manage contemporary HR issues and challenges
  • The course is delivered by one of the largest and highly qualified HRM departments in the UK with a reputation for producing highly rated graduates with exceptional employability
  • Previous companies to have sent students: DHL; NHS and Ford
  • DMU is a CIPD approved centre with a track record of delivering high-quality provision. The department has robust links with the CIPD at both local and national levels. The CIPD is the professional body for HR and people development. The not for profit organisation champions better work and working lives and has been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisational development for more than 100 years. It has more than 135,000 members across the world, provides thought leadership through independent research on the world of work, and offers professional training and accreditation for those working in HR and learning and development.
  • The Department of Human Resource Management has a leading research group – Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour that supports research within the department. The pioneering work carried out by the HRM academics has contributed to understanding how ‘micro-political’ behaviour in organisations can shape employment relations and the organisational practices of HR managers. You will benefit from the supportive and nurturing team of HRM professionals who bring the subject to life and will develop your critical thinking and analytical skills.
  • This course will develop your knowledge and skills in core areas of human resource management (HRM) to help you start or further your career as a HR professional. The course will also enhance your expertise in professional activities related to employee resourcing, employee development, employment relations and employment law. You will gain experience in practical problem solving informed by leading edge theory and research.
  • CIPD membership
    Gain the knowledge element for Chartered Member/Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the UK’s leading professional body for all HR practitioners
  • Live consultancy project
    Opportunity to do a piece of organisation-based research on a HR theme
  • Boost your employability
  • Achieve an academic qualification at Diploma or Masters level
  • Need for Human Resource Management professionals
    Start your career in a fast-growing area of employment nationally and internationally
  • Develop essential skills
    Learn the essential aspects of managing people in organisations across the world

The course starts in March, the Postgraduate Certificate is studied for 14 months; The Postgraduate Diploma is studies for 23 months and the MA is studied for 26 months.

The course commences with an online induction and is then taught entirely online via recorded lectures, webinars, chatrooms, discussion boards, work based projects and written materials.

The course is designed to be part-time where you can study each module in your own time via the online platforms, reading materials and work-based projects.


Leicester Castle Business School (LCBS) is one of the best environments I have had the opportunity to study in. The teaching is excellent and equips you with the ideas and theories - which we can then try and test in our day-to-day jobs. You have the chance to get taught by some of the country’s leading tutors who have endless amounts of knowledge and experience to share. The course is giving me a head start with my HR career, allowing me to have a solid foundation of knowledge and experience that I can draw upon throughout my life as I progress through my career.

Jack Henniker, NHS Graduate Management Trainee, HR Advisor in the Surgery Care Group, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust


The course is ideal for:

  • HR managers/professionals/officers/administrators and all other HR titles
  • General managers
  • Chief People Officers
  • Directors of Employee Engagement
  • Chief Human Capital Officers
  • HR Generalists
  • Training Managers
  • Chief HR Officers
  • Talent Directors/Managers

 As well as others working in the below industries:

  • Compensation and Benefits Managers
  • Training and Development Specialists
  • Employment, Recruitment and Placement Specialists
  • Head of Workforce Intelligence
  • HR Data Analyst
  • HR Compliance
  • Employment Lawyer/Legal Adviser/ In-house legal

DMU is a CIPD approved centre
We are an established CIPD approved centre with a track record of delivering high-quality provision. The department has robust links with the CIPD at both local and national levels. The CIPD is the professional body for HR and people development. The not for profit organisation champions better work and working lives and has been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years. It has more than 135,000 members across the world, provides thought leadership through independent research on the world of work, and offers professional training and accreditation for those working in HR and learning and development.


On completion of the Postgraduate Diploma you will have gained the underpinning
knowledge to enable you to work towards the Chartered CIPD memberships (MCIPD/
FCIPD) of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the UK’s leading professional body for all HR practitioners. Successful completion of the PG Diploma leads automatically to Associate Membership of the CIPD

 

As a part-time and distance learner, I have been able to work full time in my industry while studying.I have been able to attend lectures and come back to work the next day with new tools in my arsenal to apply in real life scenarios.
I have been able to take advantage of online resources to develop my knowledge of key areas while at home, and I understand that online presence is continuing to grow, so that I can study at a time and place which fits with my life and circumstances. The teaching and provision of resources has been consistently exemplary; I would recommend studying PG Dip Human Resource Management
at De Montfort University to any HR professional out there, who wishes to develop their career and think strategically about workforces and people.

Jessica Leonard-Dunn, NHS Graduate Management Trainee, HR Advisor 

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