MSc in Human Resource Management & Organisational Analysis
The MSc in Human Resource Management & Organisational Analysis is designed to prepare you for key challenges in human resources, learning and development, organisational development, and organisational change.
Today's organisations are characterised by constant change. For people professionals, success depends on acquiring the tools needed to navigate this turbulent landscape.
Through our research-led, evidence-based, innovative teaching approach, we provide the foundation on which to build your career as a leading people professional of the future.
Research from the Department of Human Resource Management & Employment Relations cuts across national, organisational, and individual levels of analysis, involving methodological and theoretical plurality. Within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors our research involves large-scale field studies that include quantitative surveys, diary studies, qualitative interviews, ethnography and visual approaches, as well as laboratory-based experiments.
Our research is published in leading international journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Industrial Relations Journal, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Relations, Work Employment & Society, and Journal of International Business Studies. We have been awarded grants from a very wide range of major funders including the ESRC, National Institute for Health Research, British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.
Department members are involved in editing journals such as the Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, and the International Journal of Management Reviews.
The department’s core research themes are:
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The role of human resource management within contemporary organisations
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Job quality, skills, fair work, employee voice and representation
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Careers, callings, job crafting and meaningful work
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The future of work, flexibility and hybrid work, and precarious work
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Comparative human resource management and comparative employment relations.
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Motivation, affect, employee proactivity and the psychological contract
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Worker health and wellbeing
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Leadership and leadership development
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Injustice and inclusion at work
Research projects
Principal investigators:
Andreas Kornelakis,
Isabel Perera.
Will robots take over our jobs? This project examines how artificial intelligence has influenced knowledge services sectors.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Andreas Kornelakis,
Chiara Benassi,
Damian Grimshaw,
Marcela Miozzo.
This project will gather qualitative data on new automation technologies and how they affect workers’ productivity, employment and skills.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Madeleine Wyatt.
This project focuses on individuals' experiences of gender, ethnicity and social class at work and ways organisations can provide better support.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Engelbert Stockhammer.
The Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Mladen Adamovic.
Explore the largest study on resume bias, with 12,000+ applications to 4,000+ jobs. Discover insights on name and ethnic discrimination in employment.
Project status: Ongoing
Our work involves collaborations with large organisations (e.g. PwC, the International Labour Organisation, Government departments) and people management bodies, such as the Institute for Employment Studies, Involvement and Participation Association, London HR Connection and the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD), as well as with numerous trade unions and employers.
The Work/Place: London returning project, led jointly by the Policy Institute at King’s and the King’s Business School, is bringing together London-based employers and policy stakeholders to understand how Covid has altered the way Londoners now work and what the future of employment in the city will look like.
We host several employer groups, including the Meaning and Purpose Network, Disability@Work research group, and the People Futures Community of Interest (in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence).
Members of our Department regularly speak at practitioner conferences and events. These connections ensure that our research influences both policy and practice.