Programme outline
- The MSc International Human Resources & Performance Management programme is designed to offer a solid expertise for specialists who have short or long term career perspectives. With 400 hours of classes, students will get the necessary cutting-edge skills to work as HR professionals in companies or consulting firms both in France and abroad.
- In the long term, students will be able to take on positions such as director of Human Resources, advising company management effectively in order to enhance organisational performance and accompany strategy while remaining mindful of employees’ needs.
In order to achieve this objective, the programme aims:
- To provide participants with solid theoretical frameworks in the fields which underlie HRM in order to allow them to anticipate and to develop a transversal and strategic vision (Module 1).
- To enhance students’ personal development and to develop their managerial potential (Module 2).
- To improve organisational performance and satisfy company strategy while taking employees’ needs into account (Module 3).
- To develop the capacity for critical analysis of the practices implemented within a company in order to develop operational skills, pragmatism, and a permanent quest for improvement (Module 4).
- To give students the opportunity to gain insight in other social systems such as the British-American, continental European and Asian systems (Module 5).
Courses by semester & credits
SEMESTER 1
> Mandatory courses
- Globalisation and HRM: The Cultural Impact on People and Organisations, 3 credits
- Employability & Career, 1 credit
> Module 1: Fundamentals of HRM
- HRM: Fundamentals of Organisational Structures, 2 credits
- Advanced Organisational Behaviour, 2 credits
> Module 2: International HRM
> Module 3: Performance Management
> Module 4: Learning, Knowledge, Change
- Personal and Professional Development for the HR Manager, 3 credits
> Module 5: Contemporary issues in HRM, 8 credits
- Strategic Human Resource Management, 3 credits
- CSR and Business Performance, 2 credits
SEMESTER 2
> Mandatory courses
- Collaborative Management, Innovation and Creativity, 3 credits
- Employability & Careers, 1 credit
> Module 1: Fundamentals of HRM
- Comparative Labour Law, 4 credits
> Module 2: International HRM
- International Employment Relations, 3 credits
- Benefits & Compensation in International Organisations, 2 credits
> Module 3: Performance Management
- HR Metrics & the Balanced Scorecard, 3 credits
- Information Systems for HRM, 2 credits
> Module 4: Learning, Knowledge, Change
- Designing Innovative Learning/Learning For The 21st Century, 2 credits
- Organisational Development & Change Management, 2 credits
> Module 5: Contemporary issues in HRM
- Workforce Management & Talent Management, 4 credits
- Quality of Life at Work, 2 credits