Program Overview

Employers need professionals who understand people management and the roles of employees in business. This CIPD-accredited degree will show you how to implement sustainable and ethical human resource management (HRM) strategies and practices that will enhance staff recruitment, training, welfare and performance within a business context. You’ll gain the HRM skills to launch your career to shape and lead the workforce of the future.

• Our Business Management with Human Resources Management BSc gives you the opportunity to explore how organisations of all sizes start, run and thrive.
• Business organisations are reliant on people and need professionals who can make sense of the behaviours of staff in the workplace. This course will allow you to launch your career in personnel, talent management and recruitment.
• At Surrey Business School we inspire positive change in business and society, individuals and organisations, locally and globally by delivering impactful research and courses which promote a global and digital mindset for the future of business.
• This bachelor's degree is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), so you can fast-track your career with exemptions from some professional personnel exams.
• You’ll have the option to take one of our award-winning Professional Training placements that will prepare you for roles in industry.

Our BSc (Hons) Business Management with Human Resource Management course offers a wide variety of modules on topics including organisational psychology, international aspects of people management, and employee relations, in addition to core business and management topics.  

You’ll gain an overall view of human resource management and explore different ways to approach human resources. As well as having the opportunity to take further specialist pathway modules, you can also complement the core modules with electives from other pathways.

All our business management students follow the same first year in order to build a solid foundation on which to specialise. This means you can transfer to any of our specialist business management degree pathways: 

• Business Management BSc (Hons)
• Business Management with Business Analytics BSc (Hons)  
• Business Management with Entrepreneurship and Innovation BSc (Hons)  
• Business Management with Marketing BSc (Hons)  
• International Business Management BSc (Hons)