International Human Resource Management

The aims of this module are to:

• develop a critical understanding of the concepts involved in global strategic management and its application in the private and public sectors;
• develop knowledge in the area of strategic analysis, the evaluation of strategic options, and the implementation of strategy.

The aims of this module are to:

• Examine the distinctiveness of national business systems
• Investigate the context of management in comparative perspective
• Identify the challenges facing companies that manage across nationally distinct business systems
• Appreciate the pressures towards convergence and divergence in the nature of managerial work

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The aims of this module are to:

• examine HRM strategies and practices in institutional and cultural contexts
• examine the role of HRM strategies in the management of multinational firms.
• understand how institutional and cultural differences affect multinational companies¿ decision
• identify emerging issues in international HRM and various challenges that multinational companies face in managing people and workplaces globally.

The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.

Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how 含羞草视频's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.

Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from 含羞草视频 London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a working knowledge of typical quantitative and qualitative research methods used in the research undertaken in the different institutes at LU London.

The aims of this module are to:

• Familiarise students with key concepts in sociology and the sociological study of work and employment.
• Provide a historical and comparative perspective on the development of work and labour markets since the industrial revolution.
• Explore the various economic, political and cultural forces shaping the organisation of work and labour markets.
• Understand the factors contributing to job quality.

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject, business problem or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem.
The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation:

• A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice
• A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments
• A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained)

Students will achieve a high level of understanding in the subject area and produce a written thesis or project report which will discuss this research in depth and with rigour.

The module builds students' understanding of the principles of international marketing and provides an understanding of the key concepts and issues related to international marketing. This will enable students to develop their decision-making skills for the formulation, and implementation of international marketing plans.

The aims of this module are to:

• Provide students with the ability to identify and understand different types of risks companies are facing
• Equip students with an understanding of the processes and tools companies use to assess and manage various risks they are facing.

The aims of this module are to:

• Develop an understanding of corporate responsibility as behavior by firms that focuses on recognition and minimization of negative externalities caused by firm activity
• Equip students with an understanding of the nature of the pressures and processes that lead companies to 1) formally express their responsibilities to stakeholders other than just shareholders, and 2) commit irresponsible actions
• Generate an awareness of the ways in which companies take on social and environmental responsibilities, and the nature and limitations of such responsibilities

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The aims of this module are to:

• Provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to project-based teamwork in diverse settings (understood in this context as involving a range of multidisciplinary, multicultural and demographic elements in differing configurations), aiming to strengthen their cooperative and collaborative working skills and competence, while raising awareness and appreciation of diversity itself.
• Provide students with hands-on experience of identifying, framing and resolving practice oriented and real-world based challenges and problems, using creativity, critical enquiry and appropriate tools to achieve valuable and relevant solutions.
• Support the development of students' ability to engage in critical enquiry and individual reflection, as well as to apply individual strengths and skills, building on their own educational backgrounds.
• Provide students with opportunities for networking with stakeholders, organisations and corporations, aiming to enhance the competence and skills needed to connect to relevant parties and build up future professional opportunities.

The aims of this module are to provide business awareness regarding

• How businesses and other economic actors are influenced by sectoral, national and global institutions
• The differing institutional trajectories along which regional and national economies develop
• Examine the relationship between markets, institutions, business strategy and macroeconomic economic outcomes regarding slow growth, inequality and crisis
• Provide an introduction to alternative theoretical approaches to understanding capitalism

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject, business problem or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem.
The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation:

• A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice
• A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments
• A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained)

Students will achieve a high level of understanding in the subject area and produce a written thesis or project report which will discuss this research in depth and with rigour.