Business Management

Business management with human resource management brings together the broad strategic and operational frameworks of management education with a deep focus on the people dimension of organisations. Human resource management has evolved from its administrative origins into a strategic function concerned with talent attraction and retention, organisational culture, learning and development, performance management, reward, employment law, and the design of work itself. Understanding both the commercial context in which these decisions are made and the specific HR tools and frameworks available gives graduates a genuinely distinctive capability.

At Cardiff University, this three-year full-time programme develops your understanding of the full range of management disciplines, including strategy, marketing, finance, and operations, while giving you specialist grounding in human resource management theory and practice. You will study organisational behaviour, employment relations, recruitment and selection, reward management, learning and development, and the legal frameworks that govern employment in the UK. Cardiff's business school has a strong reputation and its location in Wales provides connections to a diverse range of public, private, and third sector organisations.

Graduates are well placed for careers in human resources, people management, talent acquisition, organisational development, learning and development, employment relations, and general management. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development recognises degree-level HR study as contributing to professional membership, and many graduates pursue CIPD qualifications alongside or after their degree. The management breadth of the programme also means graduates are competitive for general graduate management schemes across a wide range of sectors.

Further study in human resource management, organisational psychology, employment law, or business is open to those who wish to specialise.