MA in Human Resource & Knowledge Management
Sophisticated skills for understanding people, knowledge, and change in organisations in the 21st century
Based in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, the 12-month full-time MA programme offers in-depth analyses of HRM, knowledge management and change in organisations at the dawn of the 21st century. You will examine the conditions in which HRM and knowledge management have become the central links between people, work, and technology in contemporary organisations.
LUMS is widely recognised as one of the best management schools in the UK and is a world-leader in management research. The MA in Human Resource and Knowledge Management is recognised as one of the finest specialised master’s courses in the country. Indeed, getting onto the course is, in itself, difficult with hundreds of applications from all over the world and only accepting around twenty students.
The programme uses a wide range of concepts to help participants understand the management of people at the level of organisational practices, as well as in the wider, global context of contemporary economy and culture.
The MA at Lancaster investigates new approaches in the specialist areas of Human Resource (HRM) and Knowledge Management, as well as the ways in which changes in the structure of organisations, in the world economy and culture, and in government policies, affect the way we work, manage and organise in the 21st century.
“The MA in HR & KM kept me reading, thinking and arguing. It really transformed the way I think and look at things.”
Xiaoli Mai
MA HR & Knowledge Management, 2004
This is not just a programme teaching you simple “models” or “techniques”, but a programme which will help you develop the sophisticated conceptual and analytical skills needed to understand people, work, management and organisations in the contemporary world. These skills are absolutely necessary if you want to become effective management professionals in today's complex organisations.
The MA in HR and Knowledge Management is also available as an MA in HR and Knowledge Management (by research) as part of the ESRC ‘1 plus 3’ scheme (one year of training in research methods followed by three years of supervised research). Progression to PhD is dependent on successful performance during the MA (by research) year.
