This program provides an introduction to the various functions of human resource management, including compensation and benefits, staffing, recruitment and selection, research, labor relations, training and development, health and safety, planning, mediation and arbitration, the influence of government legislation on industry, and human rights legislation and employment equity.

The individual modules have their own aims and objectives. Collectively they provide the overall aims and objectives of the programme, which are,

• To provide you with a high quality graduate management qualification and education and development experience of intrinsic worth that will enable you to achieve learning outcomes at a level appropriate for the award of qualifications of the academy.
• To provide an intellectually stimulating programme of professional graduate management education for students desiring to develop their career in the human resource management and development profession.
• To develop the operational skills and behaviors of human resource management and development practitioners through a curriculum that combines rigorous academic study, skills development and application.
  The Programme objectives are,
• Critically evaluate the principles and practices of specific human resource management and development topics from an academic and organizational perspective.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop ideas and arguments, to identify appropriate professional responses to organizational problems and issues and to apply these at a level appropriate to the management professional areas and behavior.
• Apply your professional skills and knowledge within a work environment. Successfully demonstrate your continuous professional development.