查尔斯特大学

Shift your thinking and add value to your organisation with the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI)-accredited Master of Human Resource Management (with specialisations) from Charles Sturt University.

If you're an HR practitioner wishing to accelerate your career in a highly competitive marketplace, this degree will allow you to sharpen your strategic, analytical and practice-based skills.

This course is part of an articulated program of study. Articulated programs allow you to build on your study to achieve the right level of qualification for you.

Specialisations:

This course offers a general qualification in human resource management, or you can choose one of the following specialisations:

Business Partnership

The Business Partnership specialisation provides students with an overview of the knowledge and skills required to research, monitor, analyse and make effective decisions in relation to the complex issues confronting managers at both strategic and operational levels. It is critical to an organisation's success that managers understand the principles of a range of functional areas of management and apply these principles to the analysis and management of organisational situations and lead effectively.

Conflict and Dispute Resolution

Dispute resolution is a growing and constantly changing area that requires continual professional practice and networking to keep informed. This specialisation provides graduates with an understanding of the causes of conflict, and the availability and suitability of various methods of dispute prevention and resolution, and their differing results. Students learn the skills and ethics of conflict resolution and are able to apply them to mediation processes in different settings including their own workplace.

Employment Relations

Australia's system of industrial relations has been designed in response to a rapidly changing contemporary context and reflects the impact of economic conditions and theories, as well as the social, political and structural transformation of the Australian economy and society. Since the beginning of last century, there has been an explosion of laws that govern the relationships between employers and employees in the Australian workforce. The aim of the specialisation is to give insight into the managerial and specialist roles in the industrial relations field within the private, public or trade union sectors.

International Human Resource Management

In the initial stage of this specialisation students are introduced to the roles and functions of human resource management in organisations. Students investigate how human resource management can contribute to organisational performance and examine the ethical and moral implications of human resource functions and techniques. From this foundation, students then undertake studies of human resource management in the context of international business operations and the human resource practices which support the movement of businesses and managers into cultures that are both similar to, and foreign from, the home culture.

Management of Organisational Change

In today's business environment, organisations are required to undergo changes almost constantly if they are to remain competitive. Managing organisational change is the process of planning and implementing change in organisations and minimising employee resistance and loss to the organisation while simultaneously maximising the effectiveness of the change effort.