Program Overview

Explore the inner workings of business marketing, strategy and culture, with activities and workshops to boost your creative thinking skills. This is the only combined degree of its type in WA.

Develop the kind of business knowledge, skills and new ways of thinking you can use to bring fresh ideas to existing organisations or create your own business venture.

Major: Human Resources Management

Technology, resources and data are important – but ultimately, it’s people who are essential to the success of any organisation.

Studying Human Resources Management or ‘HR’ as it is more commonly referred to, will help you attract and develop teams of people in any organisation in any industry.

You’ll learn recruitment techniques which will help you with interviewing – or being interviewed. You’ll examine rewards, pay, performance management, and the future direction of human resources as you explore strategic human resource management, employment policies and legal regulations.

As part of your studies, you’ll use virtual reality to practice your skills and take on real industry projects to get valuable experience.

3 reasons to study Human Resources Management at Murdoch

• Use avatars and virtual reality (VR) to prepare you for real life HR experiences such as interviews, conflict resolution and more. We are the first university in Australia to introduce VR in this way.
• Work with real organisations on real projects, and complete internships through our work integrated learning program. Some of our students have interned with RAC Arena and a number of local governments and businesses.
• Solve real business problems and experience the many perspectives you’ll find in the workplace as you work with other commerce students who are specialising in other areas.

What you'll learn
Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals. Here are some of the things you’ll learn:

• Workplace law
• Employment relations
• Talent Acquisition
• Change Management, organisational theory and behaviour
• Business analytics
• Talent Management