Human resource (HR) professionals and managers operate within increasingly complex and changing organisational and contextual circumstances, whether in the market, public or ‘third’ sectors and whatever the size of their organisations or the types of goods or services these enterprises produce for their customers or clients.
This module provides learners, first, with an understanding of the principal internal and external environmental contexts of contemporary organisations, including the managerial and business context, within which managers, HR professionals and staff interact in conditions of environmental turbulence, change and uncertainty. Furthermore, the module indicates how leaders in organisations, and those in the HR function, and line managers with HR responsibilities, need to recognise and acknowledge that corporate decisions and HR choices are not always shaped by managers alone. They are also shaped by internal and external forces beyond their immediate control.
The module has been designed with our HRM students in mind, where the roles HR staff, managers and others have in the successful operation of organisations within various different contexts is covered, such as line managers, consultants and HR specialists, leading to meeting the university’s ‘I am UWS’ graduate attributes:
- Universal: supporting students in becoming critical thinkers, who can demonstrate analytical and collaborative skills;
- Work-ready: developing motivated, ambitious and knowledgeable future professionals, with effective communication skills;
- Successful: helping our students to be autonomous, resilient and transformational individuals who have the drive to succeed in their future careers.
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