Students who commenced study in 2016 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirments; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.

Human resource management

Undergraduate
Minor/Major

Commencement year

This area of study entry applies to students commencing this course in 2016 and should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook.

Any units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the Faculty of Business and Economics component of any bachelors double degrees.

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Managing faculty

Faculty of Business and Economics

Contact details

Visit http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/student/contact/index.html

Websites

Faculty of Business and Economics

Location

Caulfield

Human resource management is the study of managing people within a global context. The major critically examines and applies human resource management strategies and practices that enable people to fulfil their individual needs in the work environment as well as achieve the organisation's strategic objectives. Human resource management particularly enhances students' capacity for managing and interpreting employment law, human resource strategy, employee relations and conflict, workforce planning, and ethics and governance. The major equips students for careers as human resource professionals, including staff and consulting roles in employment relations, training and development, and recruitment and selection.

Availability

Human resource management is listed in the Bachelor of Business at Caulfield as a major or minor.

Outcomes

In addition to achieving the broad outcomes of their course, students successfully completing this major will be able to:

integrate, update and critically apply evidence-based human resource management concepts, strategies and practices.

Units

Major requirements (48 points)

No more than 12 points at level 1 may be credited to a major and at least 18 points must be credited to the major at level 3.

Students complete the following eight units (48 points):

BTX3991 Employment law
MGF1010 Introduction to management
MGF2341 Managing employee relations
MGF2656 HRM and managing global workforces
MGF2661 Human resource management
MGF3450 Managing conflict
MGX3100 Management ethics and corporate governance
MGX3441 Human resource strategy

Minor requirements (24 points)

Students complete:

Any four units (24 points) from the major, with at least two units (12 points) at level 2 or 3.

Relevant courses

Bachelors

Single degrees

Successful completion of the major can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the following single degree:

B2000 Bachelor of Business

Students in this course can complete the minor using 24 points of their free electives.*

Students in other single bachelor's degrees may be eligible to complete the minor or major by using 24 or 48 points of their free electives.

* Students cannot complete both the minor and major in the same area of study.

Double degrees

Successful completion of the major can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the Bachelor of Business component in the following double degrees:

B2019 Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Arts
B2013 Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Business Specialist
B2017 Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Information Technology
F2004 Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Business
D3007 Bachelor of Education (Honours) and Bachelor of Business
F2007 Bachelor of Fine Art and Bachelor of Business