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The department of  Human Resource Management has geared itself to provide the most comprehensive mix of qualifications in the field of human resource management, labour relations and human resource development that are not only at the cutting edge of current best practice, but also allow for a meaningful life-long career path with multiple vertical and horizontal articulation options.

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Message from the Chair of Department

Dr Mochabo Moerane
Chair of Department of Human
Resource Management 

I am Mochabo Moerane, and I joined the Department of Human Resource Management (HRM) on 1 May 2019. I am profoundly elated to welcome prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students to our Department.

As the chair of the Department, I humbly possess and bring along diversified skills and competencies in the broader field of social sciences, law and people management, as I am a master human resource practitioner (SABPP), registered industrial and organisational psychologist (HPCSA), and a professionally registered social worker (SACSSP).

Unlike many residential universities in the country where one department holistically offers both industrial and organisational psychology and human resource management, we at Unisa find ourselves in a unique space where two distinctive departments offer the two disciplines totally separate from each other, under the School of Management Sciences in the College of Economic and Management Sciences.

The vision of the HRM Department and our programme qualification mix (PQM) are aligned to Unisa’s 2030 strategic plan, the SABPP national human resources strategy and the government’s National Development Plan (NDP), which incorporate the following key characteristics of the fourth industrial revolution:

• a high rate of change
• technology intensive and artificial intelligence (AI)
• a high degree of curriculum transformation
• a focus on innovation

The future HR competencies will amongst others centre on the following human characteristics:

1. collaboration and cooperation orientation
2.  people development, resoluteness and self-reliance
3. life-long learning and continuous professional development
4. digital proficiency
5. future focus
6. adaptability and quick responses to environmental challenges

The HRM Department is currently transforming and decolonising our module offerings accredited by the Council of Higher Education (CHE) and the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) to the benefit of the new generation of people management professionals that will contribute to South Africa’s social justice and human rights projects as enshrined in the 1996 Constitution of the Republic.

On behalf of the HRM Department, I would like to extent my hearty welcome to our prospective students together with our quality assurance professional body, SABPP, in our journey and partnership in serving the best interests of the HR profession and humanity in general.