Business Management with Human Resources
Business management with human resources is a degree that recognises a fundamental truth about organisations: that people are central to business success. Management provides the broad strategic, financial, and operational frameworks through which organisations pursue their goals. Human resources focuses more specifically on how organisations attract, develop, motivate, and retain the people who do the work, and on how employment relationships are governed, negotiated, and managed fairly and effectively.
Together they give you both the big-picture view of how businesses function and the specialist knowledge of the people dimension that makes them work.
At Keele University, this three-year full-time programme helps you understand the business world while developing people management expertise grounded in real-world experience. You will study strategy, marketing, economics, and organisational behaviour alongside modules covering employment law, talent management, reward, diversity and inclusion, and the psychology of work. A sandwich year is built into the programme, giving you the opportunity to work in a business or HR role before your final year.
A year abroad at a partner institution is also incorporated, broadening your perspective on how different cultures and regulatory environments approach employment relationships. Work placement is additionally available.
You will develop both the analytical skills that management roles demand and the interpersonal and legal understanding that HR practice requires. Professional development is woven through the programme, preparing you for the graduate labour market from early in your studies.
Graduates go on to careers in human resources management, recruitment, talent development, employee relations, organisational development, and general management across every sector of the economy. Many pursue professional membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Others move into management consulting, business development, or entrepreneurship.
Postgraduate study in HRM, business, or organisational psychology is a natural next step.