Overview
About this course
This course will provide you with a sound understanding of key human resource management, employment and ethical leadership issues, advancing your career in people management and enabling you to progress to a master's qualification.
Who is it for?
Based on our Master of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, but requiring fewer units of study, this course is designed for students who wish to develop the skills to respond to the rapid changes reshaping local and international work practices.
Structure
What you’ll study
Develop the skills to build a career in the 'people' function in organisations as you learn to apply key concepts, techniques and specialised knowledge in human resource management and industrial relations.
Core units
Foundation unit
- Foundations of HR and IR
Advanced units
- Emerging Challenges in Work and IR
- Human Resource Strategies
- HR Data Insights
Elective unit of study options
- Cross-Cultural Management
- Disruptions and Innovations in HR
- Employment and the Law
- Ethical International Business Decisions
- Industrial Relations Policy
- International Dimensions of HRM
- Leadership in Organisations
- Management Consulting
- Managing Communication in Organisations
- Managing Diversity and Inclusion at Work
- Organisational Analysis and Behaviour
- Organisational Change and Development
- Organisational Sustainability
- Performance and Rewards
- Strategic Management
Costs
Funding
Admissions
To be considered for admission, an applicant is required to have:
- an Australian bachelor's degree or higher (minimum 60 percent average) or equivalent qualification, or
- an Australian bachelor's degree or higher with a pass average (minimum 50 percent) or equivalent qualification, and satisfactory performance in the GMAT (for guidance, the class average score is 590)
- or equivalent Business School approved admissions test or the University of Sydney Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations with a credit average (65 percent).
International qualifications
For qualifications awarded outside Australia, equivalencies and entry requirements are determined based on the country, institution, and qualification.
A minimum result of 7.0 overall and a minimum result of 6.0 in each band
A minimum result of 96 overall including a minimum result of 17 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 19 in Writing
A minimum result of 68 overall and a minimum result of 54 in each band