This cutting-edge course provides you with an in-depth, critical understanding of contemporary and historical debates in human resource management (HRM), enabling you to hone invaluable skills for your professional development. You’ll gain essential knowledge to become an HR professional, covering a range of advanced HRM concepts. Topics of study include employment law, employment relations, gender and equality, training and development, sustainability, and digitalisation. There is a strong emphasis on applying this knowledge in practical business environments, with opportunities to work with HR practitioners and companies on case studies, live projects and challenges. Course Highlights This course has an international focus and is shaped by the leading research of our Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), which contributes to contemporary national and international debates around HRM and employment relations. Gain valuable, real-world insight from high-profile industry guest speakers. Recent speakers have included the former Head of HR for NHS England and past Chair of the Chartered Management Institute in Malaysia. You’ll have the opportunity to put theory into practice through an optional, practical short course, ‘HRM in practice’, taught by industry practitioners. Through the ‘Human Resource Management Dissertation’, you can partner with an organisation, giving you hands-on experience of working to solve organisational problems. On all Masters courses at Leeds University Business School you’ll have an opportunity to apply for a place on a week-long international study tour which will include company visits, guest lectures and networking events, as well as an opportunity to visit local places of interest. Previous study tours have included visits to Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan and Zurich. Find out more about studying your Masters at Leeds University Business School. AccreditationLeeds University Business School has triple accreditation from the three leading bodies AACSB, AMBA and EQUISOur MA Human Resource Management is fully accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the only HR institution in the world to recognise HR professionals through chartered membership. This course will allow you to satisfy the entry requirements for associate CIPD membership and chartered CIPD membership (if you have relevant work experience and take certain modules).