COURSE: BCOM IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

The purpose of this package is to equip learners with the required knowledge and practical skills to effectively manage human resources in any organisation. These include: perception (study, research); evaluation (appraisal, measuring, selection, placing, problem identification); optimal utilisation and influencing (change, training, development, motivation, negotiation and management) of human behaviour in its interaction with the environment (physical, psychological, social, organisational) as it manifests itself in the world of work.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Computer and information literacy


• Academic literacy


• Industrial and organisational psychology


• Business management


• Economics


• Financial accounting


• Informatics


• Statistics


• Research


• Communication management

Second year subjects:

• Business ethics


• Industrial and organisational psychology


• Business management


• Business law


• Taxation


• Research

Third year subjects:

• Industrial and organisational psychology


• Business management


• Labour relations


• Labour law

Careers: human resource manager, recruitment officer.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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