Keele University Prospectus Undergraduate | 2016 | Page 125

Third year In the final year, you will study specialist areas and take the following core module: The Employment Relationship and the Law addresses the changing role, values and limits of the law in industrial relations and human resource management. You will then choose either of the following two core modules: International Human Resource Management analyses central issues and themes that dominate contemporary debate and research in the policy diffusion of human resource management practices in transnational corporations and the management of employees across national boundaries. Discrimination and Equal Opportunities at Work examines the evidence for labour market inequalities, offers an understanding of the debates surrounding the causes of these inequalities and assesses the usefulness of existing devices that have been used as remedies for t