Assessment
A variety of assessment procedures are employed on the MSc in HR and Knowledge Management to test both general familiarity with essential material and also to help programme participants to develop and demonstrate their analytical skills and creative capacities.
Masters degrees are awarded to students who demonstrate:
- A systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and/ or new insights, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of their academic discipline and field of study
- A comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship
- Originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline
- Conceptual understanding that enables the student:
- to evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline
- to evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses
Performance on the programme is assessed from:
Module 1 (HRKM1) 45 Credits
Taught units (Term 1):
Organisational Analysis 1: The Politics of Contemporary Organisational Change
Knowledge Management and Information Technology
Human Resource Management 1
Assessment:
One 5000 word essay 10% assessment weighting (term 1)
One 3-hour unseen examination 15% assessment weighting (term 2)
Module 2 (HRKM2) 45 Credits
Taught units (Term 2):
Organisational Analysis II: Structural Transitions
The Management of Organisational Change
Human Resource Management II – Advanced HRM
Assessment:
One 5000 word essay 10% assessment weighting (term 2)
One 3-hour unseen examination 15% assessment weighting (term 3)
Module 3 (HRKM3) 30 credits
Taught units:
Science and Organisation Studies (Term 1)
Research in Organisational Settings (Term 2)
Quantitative and Survey Research Methods (Term 3)
Assessment:
Three assignments 10% assessment weighting
(The 3 marks aggregated and together count for 10% of the overall MA mark but will be recorded separately on the transcript)
Module 4 (HRKM4) 60 credits
Dissertation of up to 15,000 words 40% assessment weighting
Qualifying for the MSc award requires a minimum overall mark of 50% and a total of 180 credits at postgraduate level; a minimum dissertation mark of 50%; and no more than two individual (non-dissertation) marks of between 40 and 49% can be condoned and no more than 50% can be re-assessed work. A distinction will be awarded to those gaining an overall average of at least 70%.
