Strategic Human Resource Management Stellenbosch University

Overview

The Strategic Human Resource Management programme at Stellenbosch University has been designed with inputs from top HR Directors, business executives and thought leaders, thereby ensuring a cutting-edge approach to HR best practices aligned to the realities and complexities of the new world of work.  The PG Diploma offers a development opportunity to graduates in any field seeking to augment their qualifications with core HR Management knowledge and skills as well as to examine the strategic application of the HR function in organisations.  The introduction of this post graduate qualification will also facilitate the upward career mobility of middle managers in various disciplines requiring people management skills. 

The Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic HR Management will be a programme with a modular/blended learning mode of delivery (physical and online learning) at the Stellenbosch University main campus.  There are 8 direct contact hours of classes per module, 8 hours per day for the block of introductory contact time (this introductory contact block is thus a week long) followed by presentation of outcomes achieved at the end of the programme.  Students will be required to have online contact and to do independent self-study, assignments, and application in a work environment.  The duration of the programme is one year for students who want to complete it in an accelerated way, or two years for students who need more flexibility in terms of their workload and other personal or family commitments.  Information and communication technology mediated lectures and discussion groups will be employed to facilitate the learning experience for students.

Mode of Presentation

The programme is presented in a modular hybrid mode combining online learning with occasional face-to-face sessions.

The programme will focus on four market segments:

• HR Practitioners who are interested to progress to HR Managers;
• HR Managers who are aspiring to become HR Directors;
• HR Directors who are keen to update their HR knowledge;
• Line Managers and other specialists who want to improve their people management skills.