Program Overview

To manage staff properly, you need to understand them. This degree gives you a deep practical understanding of how people work, and how to create a business environment conducive to individual success. You’ll gain a strong foundation in the fundamentals of business, with a focus on human resource management, including areas such as workplace relations, staffing and remuneration, training and development, leadership and team dynamics, and managing organisational change. You’ll also learn about human behaviour and cognitive, social, physiological and intercultural psychologies.

In this degree you will:

• Develop specialist skills through your understanding of the key areas of human resource management
• Gain practical experience in the human resources sector through an elective internship
• Learn fundamentals of business such as economics, management, marketing, research methods, accounting and informatics
• Participate in paid research assistant work relating to psychology in your second or third year of study

Major: Human Resource Management

If you love working with people and recognise the importance of effective people management, then consider a career in Human Resource Management.

Your studies will equip you with the communication skills required for roles in human resources and the people and culture field. Your studies will focus how to manage workplace relations to create a positive and productive team synergy.

You will learn how individuals operate in team environments and develop strategies to ensure cultural inclusion across a workplace. Graduate with a thorough understanding of the modern workplace and apply your knowledge to become an expert practitioner in human resources or broaden your employment opportunities.