To manage staff properly, you need to understand them. This degree gives you a deep practical understanding of how people work, and how to create a business environment conducive to individual success. You’ll gain a strong foundation in the fundamentals of business, with a focus on human resource management, including areas such as workplace relations, staffing and remuneration, training and development, leadership and team dynamics, and managing organisational change. You’ll also learn about human behaviour and cognitive, social, physiological and intercultural psychologies.

In this degree you will:

• Develop specialist skills through your understanding of the key areas of human resource management
• Gain practical experience in the human resources sector through an elective internship
• Learn fundamentals of business such as economics, management, marketing, research methods, accounting and informatics
• Participate in paid research assistant work relating to psychology in your second or third year of study

Career opportunities

• Human resource management
• Recruitment
• Staff development and training
• Employment relations
• Change management
• Organisational development
• Health and education services
• Disability services
• Community work

Accreditation

This program is pending accreditation with the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC). Following successful completion of an accredited honours year – plus further accredited postgraduate study following the guidelines of the Psychologists Registration Board in their state or territory – graduates may be eligible for registration as a psychologist in that state or territory. Upon graduating, you may also be eligible to join the Australian Human Resources Institute.