Programme Specification: MSc Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour
(Research)* (withdrawn at the end of the 2010-11 sesion)
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
January 2004
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
1
ID418
ID430
ID431
ID419
Comparative Employment Relations and Human Resource Management or
Organizational Behaviour (H) and either
Organizational Change (H) or
Cross Cultural Management (H)
2
MI4M1 or MI4M2 Foundations of Social Research
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
ID499)
Dissertation (Students are advised to attend the Project Lectures as part of
5
Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Seminar (not assessed)
ID500
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
performance in assessments/examinations.
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16. Methods for evaluating and improving the quality and standard of teaching and
learning
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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.
Departmental TLAC review once every five years.
The Teaching Learning and Assessment Committee which regulates all aspects of
teaching quality;
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.
Student feedback
Course teaching surveys as conducted by TQARO
The Group has its own system for periodic review of its programmes.
Staff-Student Liaison Committee meetings.
* Please note that this programme is withdrawn from the end of 2010/11. It is replaced
by MSc Organisational Behaviour from 2011/12.