Deakin University

Master of Finance (Human Resource Management)

Study at a university ranked in the top 1% in the world for finance* and delve into the modern financial techniques underpinning investment, financing, and risk management decisions of multinational corporations with Deakin’s Master of Finance. Learn about financial markets, corporate governance, corporate finance, derivative securities, and portfolio management. You will also be exposed to new knowledge areas such as FinTech, Business Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The coursework and research components have been designed to enhance professional practice in a range of financial domains, which may be of particular interest to you if you’re currently working as a finance professional.

Develop analytical skills for making key financial management decisions, incorporating time-value-of money and risk-return analysis, plus learn how to apply financial knowledge to solve real-world financial decision problems. Through practice, you will become adept to various digital technologies used to process complex financial data, information, and ideas.

Human Resource Management

• MMH701 - Human Resource Strategy: This unit provides an in-depth understanding of theories and models of strategic human resource management and how they are applied in organisations to enhance performance. It includes an understanding of the synergy between an organisation’s strategic direction, the strategic use of its people resources, and the HR systems and practices that are necessary to achieve an organisation’s goals.
• MMH702 - Strategic Staffing: This unit aims to contribute to student understanding of four core parts of strategic staffing, namely: (1) the staffing context; (2) recruitment; (3) personnel selection; and (4) retention management. As we will see, these four parts each play a key role in facilitating the movement of talent into, through, and out of the organisation in a way that enables the organisation to compete successfully in its marketplace.
• MMH704 - Managing and Rewarding Performance: This unit provides students with the skills to examine, analyse, and critically evaluate the role which human resource management plays in managing the rewards and performance of individuals and groups in organisations. The first part of the unit focuses on performance and the second part on reward. The unit considers performance appraisals as just one aspect of performance management and equips students with the skills to construct performance and rewards strategies for organisations in both domestic and international contexts.
• MMH709 - Workplace Relations: This unit presents an overview of employment relations in an Australian and international context. It focuses on the way employment relationships are managed within a framework of change. The unit sets out the unique nature of the employment relationship, adopting historical and theoretical frameworks of analysis and introduces students to different modes of bargaining.