Human Resource Management (HRM)

Department of Business Management

Contact: Morag McLean T: +44 (0)141 331 8431 E: m.mclean@gcu.ac.uk

Our team focuses on the most dynamic organisational resource in business success and transformation – people.

The effective management of people in work is central to our HRM teaching, research and knowledge transfer activities. The challenging economic and social contexts of contemporary workplaces make HRM priorities in:

maximising performance management
proactively managing talent and diversity
driving change and leadership
balancing employment relationships
personal and professional development

GCU has been providing high quality HRM education and professional development for over 40 years. We are the largest HRM provider in Scotland* and the only UK institute to offer ‘triple accreditation’ for a global HR programme with recognition from CIPD, CMI and SHRM.

Our staff have substantial practical experience from across the private, public and not-for -profit sectors and are predominately Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). We were awarded the first Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) in HRM on strategic HRM in a growing international business.

Areas of excellence:

coaching and development
competencies for international leaders
conflict management and mediation
employee engagement
employability skills
diversity management
Generation Y careers
high performance working
leadership development
learning organisations

Courses to consider

GCU was one of the first UK Universities to achieve full accreditation with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Chartered Management Insititue (CMI) and we offer the only UK programme of its type recognised by the American Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Flexible Awards

Our bespoke programmes have flexible exit awards at postgraduate certificate and diploma level, and many modules can be delivered as stand-alone, on-site accredited training for maximum student and client flexibility. We also offer a ‘top-up’ to Masters Route for people who have a CIPD approved Postgraduate Diploma in HRM.

Academic Staff

*HESA 2012