The success organisations have in adapting to changes often depends on how well and how quickly their employees and managers can adapt. Human Resource Management as a subject is in part a response to these changes. Most managers have at some point to manage other people and hence need to develop appropriate people-management skills. A great many students will, in the natural course of events, take up managerial posts or administrative posts whether in business or in the health service, in social work or in education. A knowledge of the issues involved should, therefore, be not only educative but also practically useful.
Most managerial jobs involve an element of people management, whatever the specialism.
Therefore, to be able to claim some HRM component in your degree is likely to be to your advantage. If you have studied the subject to a serious extent, for example to Pass Degree level, we would expect this to be a significant advantage for you. In the competitive environment of graduate recruitment having people-management skills in addition to other specialist skills significantly broadens the opportunities available to you. In the competitive environment of graduate recruitment having people-management skills in addition to other specialist skills significantly broadens the opportunities available to you. Furthermore, if you follow particular classes you can obtain graduate membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development .