Division of Business
School of Management
School of Management
In subsequent years, students undertake a rigorous sequence of courses designed to develop leading-edge technical, analytical and practical skills. Through careful choice of electives, students may complete up to eight additional human resource management courses, focusing on specialist areas such as Organisational Development, Strategic Human Resource Management, International Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, Occupational Health and Safety, and Professional Practice.
Students within this program also have an opportunity to study assessment and selection issues in organisational psychology, including critical analysis of commonly used assessment instruments and evaluation of contemporary assessment techniques; current conceptual issues related to assessment of organisational stress; the design and implementation of programs to alleviate and prevent organisational stress and work-related trauma; the application of occupational health and safety and equal opportunity legislation to organisational settings.
Other specialised areas of study include theories of career development, motivation theories, job analysis, performance appraisal, the role of training in organisations, ethics in organisational psychology or even in another area of interest altogether such as industrial relations. In third year, students have the opportunity to gain professional hands-on experience through a semester-long industry placement, or may consider obtaining a deeper understanding of the international dimensions of human resource management practice by spending a semester studying overseas.
