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Explore international human resource (HR) strategies, cross-cultural management, global talent management and employment practices across different countries and time zones. We’ll prepare you for a career in global people management by covering topics such as workforce mobility and managing people across borders. 

You'll also benefit from learning alongside students from around the world with a range of professional backgrounds, gaining diverse cultural, professional and personal perspectives. 

On this masters you will apply theoretical knowledge through business case studies, consultancy-style projects, interactive learning activities and practice-based assessments that reflect contemporary HR challenges. 

For example, you may examine how multinational organisations recruit and retain international talent, manage employees across different cultural contexts, address employee engagement and wellbeing, and respond to differences in employment regulations across countries.

These activities will help you develop analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills relevant to contemporary HR and people management roles.

Today's HR professionals must navigate an increasingly complex global landscape, balancing compliance with local employment laws, managing internationally distributed teams and responding to changing workforce expectations. 

Artificial intelligence and digital technologies are also reshaping how organisations manage people. From AI-assisted recruitment and workforce planning to the use of people analytics to understand employee engagement and retention, HR professionals increasingly need to evaluate both the opportunities and ethical challenges associated with data-driven decision-making.

Through the programme's emphasis on evidence-based HR practice, research methods and opportunities to study people analytics, you will develop the analytical and critical thinking skills needed to understand and respond to these developments.

You'll graduate with expertise in evidence-based HR decision-making, research methods and contemporary people management. 

You can choose from a range of optional modules, including People Analytics, Performance, Engagement and Wellbeing, International Business Management, Employee Resourcing and Contemporary Employee Relations, to develop expertise aligned with your professional interests. 

Unlike our CIPD‑accredited Human Resources Management MSc, which is aligned to the CIPD’s Profession Map, our IHRM MSc gives you greater flexibility in the choice of modules. This enables you to drill down to tailor your studies around your specific interests and academic background.  

You will join a programme built on established HR expertise delivered by a School with a strong reputation for postgraduate human resource management (HRM) education. 

You will be taught by academics with HR experience and guest speakers working across a range of sectors, giving you insight into current HR business challenges and how management concepts are applied across different sectors and organisational contexts.