Content Official Master's Degree in Management of Human Resources in Organisations
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Ideal student profile
The profile is that of graduates in Psychology, Sociology, Industrial Relations, Law, Economics, Business Management and Administration, or equivalent, who wish to specialise in human resources management in the workplace, or graduates already working in the field of human resources and seeking to widen their knowledge.The continuous learning and assessment process used in this master's degree means that students need to be highly skilled in organising and planning their work.
Finally, a knowledge of English is required so as to be able to use bibliographic resources and other sources of information.
Basic skills
- Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously
Specific skills
- Mark out human resources needs in the different areas of an organisation, from a proactive, systemic approach.
- Detect individual and/or group features that affect the members of an organisation.
- Design operational plans (for training, induction, etc.) in simulated contexts.
- Evaluate specific operational plans and programmes for human resources in order to introduce improvements.
- Provide technical advice on human resources matters for different areas of an organisation.
- Assess the peculiarities of the different contexts and their implications for human resources.
- Make appropriate use of basic legal and economic concepts associated with the human resources function.
- Apply psychosocial principles and frameworks to analyse features of organisational contexts.
- Identify indicators that help to develop the potential of the individuals that make up an organisation, collectively and individually.
Cross-curricular skills
- Present proposals, reports and results effectively to different types of interlocutor.
- Deal appropriately with internal and external clients.
- Plan, organise and monitor one's own professional activity.
- Reflect critically on one's own performance, identifying strong points and areas for improvement.
- Work in a team, taking advantage of companions' different ways of thinking and acting.
Knowledge
- Identify the principles and frameworks of a psychosocial nature in the management of human resources in organisational contexts.
- Identify HR needs in the different areas that make up an organisation, from a proactive and systemic approach .
- Identify, under technical and objective criteria, the different areas of an organization in terms of HR, which include the design of operational plans and action protocols in processes of dismissal and new hires.
- Describe the particularities of the different contexts and their implications for the HR function.
- Recognise the strengths, limitations, and biases of theoretical frameworks in the field of HR.
Skills
- Apply knowledge that provides a foundation or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
- Distinguish HR needs in the different areas that make up an organisation, from a proactive and systemic approach.
- Adequately differentiate the basic legal and economic concepts associated with the HR function.
- Apply psychosocial principles and frameworks in the analysis of aspects of organisational contexts.
- Work in teams and with diverse professional teams in the context of organisations.
- Evaluate individual and group aspects that affect the well-being of members in an organisation.
- Design operational plans and specific HR programmes that are relevant, feasible and adapted to the context in which they will be applied.
- Use critical and reflective thinking for problem-solving, decision-making, and continuous learning.
- Evaluate the impact of the application of HR processes on people and organisations, considering social and ethical aspects and establishing the most appropriate.
Competences
- Communicate conclusions, motives and the advanced knowledge that supports them to specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear, objective and unambiguous way.
- Assess the particularities of the different contexts and their implications for the HR function and for well-being.
- Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern professional practice to manage professional activity, planning, organising and controlling its execution.
- Propose projects and actions that are in accordance with the principles of ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and responsibilities and diversity.
- Evaluate projects, organisations and actions using gender perspective criteria.
- Create protocols and projects that allow the potential of the people who make up an organisation to develop, collectively and individually.