MSc Human Resources and Organisations

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1 MSc Human Resources and Organisations A challenging one-year degree programme providing a cutting-edge general foundation in HR and people management, along with the opportunity to specialise in Organisational Behaviour, International Employment Relations or Human Resource Management (CIPD).

2 Welcome to the Department of Management The Department offers an undergraduate degree (BSc Management), a portfolio of 9 Master s degrees, and an outstanding PhD programme. An academic community within the LSE The Department of Management is a fully-integrated academic unit within a world-leading social science university, ranked #2 in the world in this field (QS World University Rankings 2013). As such, it is a core part of the LSE s academic community, and develops and delivers the School s degree programmes in the field of management, as well as being the centre of academic study of management and organisations. Faculty and students in the department benefit from close collaboration and cross-disciplinary links with the other departments across the School. Its teaching is fully integrated into the School s overall teaching programme, which is delivered by more than 20 academic departments, including core business disciplines with the Department of Finance, the Department of Accounting, and a full range of other social science disciplines from social policy and government to philosophy and anthropology. The Department s faculty aim to produce outstanding scholarly research about organisations & management as well as use research methods and knowledge to address problems in business, government and society. The LSE is a world-leading social science university, ranked #2 in the world Teaching The Department provides a place for academically gifted students to boost their social science knowledge and managerial problem-solving talents so that they are well prepared to contribute to organisational success and social betterment in any place, within any sector, and on any scale. The Department offers an undergraduate degree (BSc Management), a portfolio of 9 Master s degrees, and an outstanding PhD programme. Its Master s portfolio includes a two-year Master s in Management (the only UK programme to be integrated with the CEMS Master s in International Management), as well as business-oriented Master s degrees with economics as the unifying discipline, and a range of oneyear specialist Master s degrees. It also contributes to the LSE Summer School, LSE Executive Summer School, University of London International Programme, and the TRIUM Executive MBA. Research The Department s faculty aims to produce outstanding scholarly research about organisations and management as well as use research methods and knowledge to address problems in business, government and society. The main subject areas of research within the Department are employment relations and human resource management, information systems and innovation, managerial economics and strategy, marketing, operational research, organisational behaviour, and public management. Faculty in the Department publish their research in leading academic journals for these various subject areas. Many faculty are engaged in work directed at using social science research methods to inform issues faced by organisations and policymakers in all sectors and around the world. 02 MSc Human Resources and Organisations MSc Human Resources and Organisations 03

3 Academic community The Department of Management is an internationally diverse academic community located in the heart of London, with strong links to academia, industry and government across the globe. Total students on full-time programmes in academic year: 1450 [ 50.4% (722) full-time MSc, 24.0% (344) BSc, 7.4% (106) incoming exchange students, 15.1% (216) Executive MSc/ MBA, 3.1% (62) PhD [ Number of nationalities: Top industries: Management Consulting (21%), 137 Financial Services (11%), Information Technology and Services (6%), Human Resources (6%), Banking (4%), Higher Education/Academia (4%) Top job functions: Consulting (13%), Finance (9%), Research (8%), Programme and Project Management (4%), Human Resources (4%), Business Development (4%) Number of nationalities: 69 Age range: 53% Female Average age: 47% Male OUR ALUMNI OUR FACULTY Total academic and research staff: 75 Number of nationalities: Student societies: Graduate Management Society, Management & Strategy Society, Human Resources Society, Information Systems Society, LSE CEMS Club Student publications: ischannel (student-produced journal in Information Systems), MiMPact (student-edited magazine) OUR STUDENTS LOCATION AND FACILITIES [ 20 professors Publications in : 8 BOOKS, 174 JOURNAL ARTICLES [ 48% Female 52% Male The Department of Management is located in the New Academic Building on the LSE campus, in the heart of central London, on the doorstep of global industry, government and culture. The building was opened in 2008 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, and provides a cutting-edge setting for research and teaching. Research areas: employment relations and human resource management, information systems and innovation, managerial economics and strategy, marketing, operational research, organisational behaviour. 04 MSc Human Resources and Organisations MSc Human Resources and Organisations 05

4 Interview with the Teaching Team Dr Connson Locke, Organisational Behaviour stream Dr Jonathan Booth, Human Resource Management (CIPD) stream Prof Carola Frege, International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management stream 1What are the core learnings your students will take away from the programme? Dr Connson Locke: The Master s in Human Resources and Organisations is kind of a hybrid programme. It s a really interesting design. On one hand you have a common foundation in Human Resource Management and People Management and on the other hand, you have three streams, three specialisms that students can choose. One stream is pure Human Resource Management where you get CIPD certification. The second stream is Employment Relations where you re looking at International Employment Relations comparatively across different countries. And the third stream is Organisational Behaviour, which is related to Organisational Psychology. As part of the course, students acquire both a generalist point of view as well as a specialist point of view. In addition to that, we also have a very practical angle to this programme where we offer a course that s called Dissertation: Research and Practice. Part of it is writing a dissertation, which is an original piece of research where you develop your expertise in a particular topic that you re interested in and this will hopefully help you in your career. But also, we provide very practical skills such as presentation skills, interviewing skills, communication skills, working in teams skills that employers tell us that they want students to have and we ve built that into this course. For the Organisational Behaviour stream, the core learnings are very much related to Psychology, Organisational Psychology and a bit of Sociology applied to organisations. Being part of the Department of Management means we have a very managerial angle, a really practical angle. So when we re talking about the way people behave in organisations, or what motivates them, we always talk about what the implications for management are or what the implications for organisations are. The Organisational Behaviour stream is really about understanding people how they behave, their attitudes, their motivations in organisations. Dr Jonathan Booth: Because we are a social science institution, theory is very important to us. And so, as part of the Human Resource Management stream, we introduce a lot of theory for our students. Theory is very valuable for their learning, especially because what we do is bridging practice with theory. So, they leave here really understanding theory and how that applies to their HR job. We believe that this is what employers are looking for. Also, students will graduate with critical thinking skills. I speak to employers all the time and what they say is We just need people who can really think outside the proverbial box. And our students are able to do that. Prof Carola Frege: In the International Employment Relations stream, we are looking for students who are interested intellectually to have a stimulating year where they learn a lot about the entire nature of paid work. What students learn is the analytical skills and the critical thinking to enable them to pursue a successful career afterwards. And so, the focus really is on giving students the ability and the knowledge to critically reflect on urgent workplace problems. 2How does the programme contribute to the LSE s core philosophy, understanding the causes of things? Dr Connson Locke: The way the Organisational Behaviour stream contributes to the LSE philosophy understanding the causes of things is essentially by focusing on people and understanding the causes of behaviour. We look at things like Organisational Justice and the way people perceive fairness in the organisation, how that affects the way they ultimately behave. Or we look at motivation. How do you motivate employees to care about the organisation, or to do the right thing? By looking at psychology and also sociology, by taking these core disciplines and applying them to organisations, we re helping our students understand the reasons why people behave in certain ways and giving them, therefore, the ability to predict behaviour as well as manage behaviour. Dr Jonathan Booth: We distinguish ourselves from the traditional business school, being a social science institution, by really trying to understand the causes of things. In fact, that is our motto. In the Human Resource Management stream we are quite rigorous in every class. We look at theories, analyse them, and try to understand them in detail, with emphasis on depth of knowledge. We also expect our students to understand that depth and be able to apply those theories and understand those mechanisms and how they really play out in the real world. Prof Carola Frege: Originally, the International Employment Relations stream was funded by the creators of the LSE, the Webbs. And so, we have a very close link to the origins of the LSE that is really about critically understanding work, which is what most people do most of their lives. And the idea to conceptually analyse the causes for workplace problems, the causes for workplace solutions is really at the core of what we are teaching. Indeed, we are very proud that we are standing at the core of this LSE tradition to critically reflect about things. 3How does this programme differ fundamentally from other similar Human Resources degrees? Dr Connson Locke: The Master s in Human Resources and Organisations differs from your standard Human Resource Management post-graduate programme because of the two-tiered system I described earlier. On the one hand, there are these generalist courses: two courses that all three streams will take together to get a solid foundation in Human Resources and People Management, as well as a foundation in Dissertation Research and Professional Development. Then each of the three streams has their own specialist courses as well as courses that they may share with one other stream, plus electives that only one or two streams are eligible to take. So it s the multiple-tiered system that makes this, I think, a very unique programme by allowing students to have a general foundation whilst also specialising in what they re interested in and developing this speciality that they can then sell to the marketplace and sell to potential employers. Dr Jonathan Booth: Our students get a very different experience because we are a social science institution. One thing we do as part of the programme is that we offer our Links programme which allows our students to have a connection with an HR department in a leading firm, whether it d be for-profit or non-profit, providing them with real world experience that they can use on their CV, and that s quite attractive to employers. What s great about the programme is also the fact that we have three streams. In the first term all students will be taking the Human Resource Management Strategy and Policy class together. This provides an opportunity to study with cohorts from other streams. We want our students to be academically strong, but we also want them to have strong social networks because social networks actually provide lifetime opportunities. Prof Carola Frege: What makes us special really is that we re not a business school; we are a social science institution. And in the International Employment Relations stream, that means that we don t really provide simple solutions because we don t believe in simple solutions. The world is very complex, in particular, in our field of the labour market and employment relations and human resource management. So, we are really looking at a learning process which allows our students to understand the complexities of things. We are not a multiple choice kind of institution, but we really want students to learn to have an approach to the complexities of things. That makes us very specific and special and different to an HR degree in a business school. 4What would you say to a prospective student thinking of applying to join the programme next year? Dr Connson Locke: We are looking for students with a strong academic record and a passion for understanding human behaviour in organisations. You do not need a first degree in the same field but you do need to have a deep interest in people and organisations. This degree is broad enough to qualify you for a variety of roles related to people management, human resources, or employment relations, while also allowing you to develop specific expertise. 06 MSc Human Resources and Organisations MSc Human Resources and Organisations 07

5 Programme overview If you re an ambitious critical thinker, who enjoys a challenge and has a specific interest in the human aspects of management and business, our MSc Human Resources and Organisations programme will be ideally suited to you. The MSc Human Resources and Organisations is a new MSc degree that combines the best features of three previous degree programmes: the MSc Management and Human Resources, MSc International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, and MSc Organisational Behaviour. After noticing that these three programmes attracted students with similar interests and contained some overlapping content, the Department of Management decided to combine them into an innovative new degree containing three specialisms. The best elements of each of the three degrees are preserved in the three streams, and students will also attend foundational courses that straddle all three streams. This provides a unique combination of generalist and specialist learning in one degree. This multifaceted one-year programme will give you an unparalleled foundation in human resources with respect to business and management. What s more, you will have the opportunity to focus on one of three specialist streams: Human Resource Management (CIPD), International Employment Relations, or Organisational Behaviour. You will choose from a variety of optional social science courses, so you can pursue your own specialist interests. The LSE s MSc Human Resources and Organisations students graduate with: a unique, interdisciplinary, and international perspective on business and management; a distinct intellectual rigour and flexibility; and a balance of theoretical and practical knowledge. So with our MSc Human Resources and Organisations you will be in demand by employers prepared for a range of management and research positions requiring expertise in human resources, organisational behaviour and employment policy. Key features POSTGRADUATE MASTER OF SCIENCE FULL-TIME 12 MONTHS 3 DISTINCT STREAMS: Human Resource Management (CIPD), International Employment Relations, and Organisational Behaviour 116 PER CLASS (over all 3 streams) FEES 19,944 (academic year 2015/16). 20,952 for HRM (CIPD) track to cover the cost of CIPD accreditation (academic year 2015/16) BENEFITS unparalleled perspective breadth (general foundation) and depth (specialist streams) specialist focus choice of optional elective courses in a range of social science subjects rigorous and intellectually challenging exciting and varied career prospects 80% of students in work/ further study after 6 months mean salary 30, MSc Human Resources and Organisations MSc Human Resources and Organisations 09

6 Programme structure No traditional business school offers a similar syllabus, with an academically in-depth approach to both general foundations of human resources and organisations, and specialist training in a specific subject stream. The carefully designed compulsory courses are complemented with a dissertation or business project, and a choice of elective courses in a wide variety of subjects from a selection of the LSE s world-leading academic departments. THE LINKS SCHEME As part of the MSc Human Resources and Organisations programme, students will have the opportunity to apply for the LSE Links Scheme. Students who apply for the scheme will go through a competitive selection process. Students who are selected for this scheme will be organised into pairs to work on an independent consulting project with a real-world client. Together with their assigned company, students identify an HR-related issue that needs investigating. The students research the agreed topic using a case-study approach that entails gathering data and producing a Business Report for the organisation alongside a Dissertation for the LSE. COMPULSORY COURSES (2.5 UNITS) OPTIONAL ELECTIVE COURSES (1.5 UNITS) INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND HRM STREAM: ID410 Management of Human Resources: Strategies and Policy ID432 International Employment Relations ID438 Globalisation and Human Resource Management ID493 Dissertation: Research and Practice (1.0 unit) MSC HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANISATIONS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STREAM: ID410 Management of Human Resources: Strategies and Policy ID430 Organisational Behaviour COMPULSORY COURSES (3.0 UNITS) ID438 Globalisation and Human Resource Management ID439 Foundations of Business and Management for HR ID493 Dissertation: Research and Practice (1.0 unit) OPTIONAL ELECTIVE COURSES (1.0 UNIT) COMPULSORY COURSES (3.0 UNITS) OPTIONAL ELECTIVE COURSES (1.0 UNIT) ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR STREAM: ID410 Management of Human Resources: Strategies and Policy ID430 Organisational Behaviour ID431 Organisational Change ID435 Organisational Theory ID493 Dissertation: Research and Practice (1.0 unit) 10 MSc Human Resources and Organisations MSc Human Resources and Organisations 11

7 Profiles The class All three streams within the MSc Human Resources and Organisations attract a stimulating mix of students different ages, with different educational/work experience backgrounds, from all over the world. The programme is ideal for pre-career applicants (no work experience is required). However, applicants with some work experience are also welcome. Students Meet three of our students Clementine Renard, Jason Langley, and Stephanie Hertanto each of whom has followed one of the three programmes precursor to the MSc Human Resources and Organisations. Stephanie Hertanto (Indonesia), MSc Management and Human Resources (CIPD) Clementine Renard (France), MSc International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management I decided to study the International Employment Relations programme at the LSE for three reasons. Firstly, it is a world-leading institution recognised in the sector of social sciences, which was important for me when entering a Human Resources programme. Secondly, it is a very international university representing more than 120 nationalities and offering a wide selection of societies for each to find interesting & fitting activities. Thirdly, the LSE was the only university offering this combination of policy and government insight with HR practices and a psychological approach. Until now, the School has only confirmed my choice. It offers a wide range of opportunities, such as being part of a society s committee, becoming a student representative and dealing with day-to-day activities within the Department Management, giving me access to teachers and helping me progress as a student as well as a person. I know that, what is taught on the programme, together with my other responsibilities within the School are preparing me to be a leader in my sector. Jason Langley (UK), MSc Organisational Behaviour To me, the LSE has a reputation for academic rigour and debate somewhere to challenge your own views and those of the people around you. I have long harboured a desire to study here, so when searching for a career changing course in organisational behaviour, the LSE was my first port of call. The MSc in Organisational Behaviour is a one year course and is relatively unique in the academic landscape (both in the UK and internationally.) The reputation of the faculty, reaches around the globe. I am amazed by, and appreciative of, the fact that I am being taught by the people who have significantly developed and evolved the concepts being taught. The work is challenging, but not overwhelming, so as a mature student I am able to completely enjoy life as a student (whilst balancing it with a home life.) Having just returned to the UK after working overseas, I am also relieved by the international makeup of the student and academic body. Somewhat unusually I think, I am the only Brit on the MSc OB course, which gives depth and perspective to the learning experience that extends beyond the course reading material. As someone who has always been interested in management and the organisation of workforces, the MSc Management and Human Resources programme immediately captured my attention. It gives students the opportunity to implement theories in practice by offering a series of workshops and talks from industry experts. Moreover, the CIPD accreditation, which the course offers, undoubtedly helps graduates to compete in the industry. Studying human resources in the way it is taught in this course has enhanced my knowledge of the field and at the same time has helped me to think critically in relation to the theories which have been presented. Furthermore, the wide scope of the reading material provided has helped us to understand the topic discussed in greater depth. The lecturers in the department of management have also been very helpful in answering my queries and doubts about the lectures via , or during their office hours. Although the programme is quite challenging and has pushed us all to the limit, I do not regret joining the course. It gives me an opportunity to be taught by world-class academics and to network with talented people studying at the university from all over the world. Last but not least, it has given me an opportunity to enjoy and live in one of the most amazing and beautiful cities in the world, London. 12 MSc Human Resources and Organisations MSc Human Resources and Organisations 13

8 Outlook How to apply Your career With our MSc Human Resources and Organisations you will be able to choose a career in any number of areas covering human resource management, organisational behaviour and international employment relations, across private and public sector organisations. 80% of our students are in work/further study after 6 months, with a mean salary of 30,000*. JP Morgan IBM BP DKNY BT KPMG Crown Prosecution Service InformaAmerican Express Trade Unions * LSE survey of graduates from the three programmes precursor to the MSc Human Resources and Organisations. Figures are indicative. NGOs Shell Aviva Hertz Groupon Bosch Royal Bank of Scotland Barclays Schlumberger British Airways Nokia Samsung electronics tsch Telecom ILO Unilever Applications are open between mid-october and June. Decisions are made on a rolling first-come, first-served basis, so we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment. To apply, please visit our website: Application code: N6U7 Apply by April to be considered for a Graduate Student Support (GSS) scholarship. Entry requirements upper 2nd class bachelor s degree (or international equivalent) in any discipline IELTS for non-native English speakers without proof of a degree taken in English a personal statement, resume, official academic transcripts, official test scores and two academic references Please note a GRE/GMAT score is not required, but a strong result from either of these tests may benefit applicants. No work experience is required; however applicants with work experience are welcomed. 14 MSc Human Resources and Organisations MSc Human Resources and Organisations 15

9 The following message contains some very important information. Please read it before you use this brochure. This brochure was published in September It contains information on the Master s programme that the Department of Management intends to run for students who are planning to join in the academic year. The Department has made every effort to ensure that the information provided is both helpful and accurate, and that it is kept as up-to-date as possible however, this information is subject to change. Some circumstances (such as staff changes or resource limitations over which the Department has no control) or the level of demand for a particular course may result in the Department having to withdraw or change aspects of the programme detailed in this brochure. This could include, but not necessarily be limited to, programme/module content, staffing, the location where the programme/module is taught, and the facilities provided to deliver the programme. Prospective candidates should note that, in the event of such circumstances occurring, the Department cannot accept liability for any claims for costs or damages made by a student resulting from any change to, or withdrawal of, a programme/module that he/she had intended to study. For this reason it is particularly important that you should check the website for updates ( or contact the Department using the contact details provided within this publication. Designed by: RADAR London, Edited by: Laura Delfitto, Liz Griffith 2014 Contact us If you have any specific questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: dom.hro@lse.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)