Programme Specification: MPhil/PhD Employment Relations and Organisational
Behaviour
1. Awarding Body
2. Details of accreditation by a
professional/statutory body, e.g. ESRC;
BPS etc
3. Name of final award
4. Programme Title
5. Duration of the course
6. Based in the Department/Institute:
7. Relevant QAA subject benchmark
statements
8. Application Code
9. First written/last amended
LSE
This is an approved programme of the ESRC
1+3 PhD competition scheme (UK/EU only).
MSc
MSc Employment Relations and
Organisational Behaviour (Research)
Full-time 12 months
Employment Relations and Organisational
Behaviour Group
N/A
N6U3
Nov 2010
10. The programme aims to:
Provide the foundation for progression to PhD status by developing competence in
quantitative and qualitative research methods and an advanced understanding of the subject
area of subsequent research
11. Programme outcomes: knowledge and understanding; skills and other attributes
Understanding of subject-specific empirical and disciplinary material; quantitative and
qualitative research skills
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12. Teaching, learning and assessment strategies to enable outcomes to be achieved
and demonstrated
Portfolio of subject-specific and research training courses, written assessments/examinations
13. Programme structures and requirements, levels, modules and awards
MSc Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour (Research)
Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a
dissertation as shown.
Paper Course number and title
Comparative Employment Relations and Human Resource Management or
1
ID418
Organizational Behaviour (H) and either
ID430
Organizational Change (H) or
ID431
ID419
Cross Cultural Management (H)
2
MI4M1 Foundations of Social Research
or
MI4M2
3
Courses to the value of one full unit (not already taken under paper 1) from the
following options:
ID410
Management of Human Resources: Strategies and Policy (H)
ID411
Comparative Human Resource Management (H)
ID419
Cross Cultural Management (H)
ID420
Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (H)
ID423
The Dark Side of the Organisation (H)
ID430
Organisational Behaviour (H)
ID431
Organisational Change (H)
ID433
Negotiation Analysis (H)
4
ID499
Dissertation (Students are advised to attend the Project Lectures as part of
ID499)
5
ID500
Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Seminar (not assessed)
Additional information
14. Criteria for admission to the programme
Students with a strong academic background are welcomed. Entry depends on academic
record. Those intending to proceed to PhD must identify a potential research topic which a
member of staff is willing to supervise
15. Indicators of quality
1. Favourable remarks by external examiners and consistently good examination
results.
2. Student feedback
3. The Department was ranked highly in the last RAE.
4. The Department has made a number of new appointments at the top of their
respective fields.
5. The LSE Careers Centre website provides data on career destinations of LSE
graduates.
16. Methods for evaluating and improving the quality and standard of teaching and
learning
The TQARO student questionnaire, which is used as a tool to diagnose problems and explore
improvements.
Staff-Student Committee on which the MSc EROB Research has designated representation
and whose concerns are always prominent on the agenda.
Teaching teams on each course who meet regularly to evaluate past performance, remedy
defects and propose improvements.
Staff meetings in which the problems of teaching and student service are routinely discussed
External examiners, who pay particular attention to the MSc EROB research projects.
The Teaching and Learning Centre is available to monitor and observe teaching and offers
constructive advice on how to improve the standard of teaching and quality.
The Teaching Learning and Assessment Committee which regulates all aspects of teaching
quality;
Full departmental TLAC review every five years.
The Graduate Studies Sub-Committee which oversees all graduate programmes and ensures
that significant changes to programmes and courses pass through a sequence of formal
stages, so that curricular changes are appropriate and compatible with other developments.