This module will introduce 2nd year undergraduate students to the main strategies, functions and processes that HR departments use within their companies : 1) to meet national employment regulations and industrial standards: 2) to provide the organisation with a suitably qualified and motivated workforce: 3) to aid the management in the assessment of employees performance: 4) to devise appropriate reward and compensation schemes: 5) to promote and help improve the reputation of the firm as an 'employer' and 6) to work with the Senior Management Team in improving the financial and commercial performance of the company.7) to develop new approaches to people management that are relevant to the economic, organisational and technological developments that have taken place in the 21st century.