MSc in Team and Performance Management

Course Overview

The MSc in Team and Performance Management at the London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a one-year UK Master's for candidates targeting HR business-partner, reward-and-performance and organisation-development roles at UK plcs, mid-market employers and consulting firms. Sitting in the Human Resources & Leadership faculty, the programme covers performance-management systems, reward design, team-effectiveness diagnostics, OD practice and a live people-analytics capstone defended before a working CIPD-chartered HR director.

The MSc is shaped around the CIPD Profession Map at Chartered Member and Chartered Fellow level, CMI Chartered Manager competencies and BPS Division of Occupational Psychology practice. Study runs one year full-time (two years part-time on the online or distance routes) and is available on-campus in central London, fully online with UK / APAC cohort calls, or by distance learning. Each student is allocated a dissertation supervisor from a working senior HR pool at cohort start.

Key Features

• Curriculum designed around the CIPD Profession Map at Chartered Member and Chartered Fellow level, CMI Chartered Manager competencies and BPS Division of Occupational Psychology practice.
• Three study modes — central London campus, fully online with UK / APAC cohort calls, or distance learning.
• Live people-analytics capstone on a real workforce dataset from a UK plc or mid-market firm.
• Fortnightly senior-practitioner clinic with a CIPD-chartered HR director, a reward-consulting partner and an OD practitioner.
• Applied people-analytics lab using R, Python and Workday-style HRIS datasets.
• Executive-application coaching for HR business-partner, head-of-reward and OD-consultant roles in the final term.

What You Will Learn

The MSc organises team and performance management around the working questions a senior HR business partner actually owns: is our performance system driving the behaviour we want, does our reward mix retain the right people, can we prove the OD intervention worked, and how do we defend the case to a UK plc remuneration committee.

• Performance-management systems — objective-setting, calibration, continuous conversation models.
• Reward design — total-reward mix, market benchmarking, executive remuneration under UK Corporate Governance Code.
• Team-effectiveness diagnostics — psychological safety, Belbin, team charter design.
• Organisation development — action research, Cummings and Worley practice.
• People analytics — descriptive, diagnostic and predictive HR analytics.
• Talent management — succession planning, high-potential identification, capability frameworks.
• Employee engagement — pulse-survey design, sensemaking, action planning.
• UK employment law essentials — ACAS Code, discrimination law, redundancy consultation.
• Change management — Kotter, ADKAR, Bridges transition model applied to UK contexts.
• Dissertation on an original performance-management question, supervised end-to-end.

Who This Course Is For

• HR business partners moving into senior HRBP and head-of-people roles.
• Reward and performance specialists preparing for head-of-reward appointments.
• OD consultants formalising a UK Master's alongside chartered progression.
• People-analytics analysts moving into strategic HR analytics leadership.
• Line managers moving into a specialist people-management track.

Career Pathways

Graduates typically progress into HR business-partner, head-of-reward and OD-consultant roles across UK plcs, mid-market employers, consultancies and public-sector bodies. The MSc supports applications but does not by itself confer CIPD chartered membership, which requires the separate CIPD experience assessment.

• Performance and Reward Analyst
• HR Business Partner
• Head of Performance Management (junior)
• OD Consultant
• People Analytics Manager
• Head of Reward (junior)

The MSc is a strong signal for the CIPD Chartered Member and Chartered Fellow experience assessment and the CMI Chartered Manager route.

Entry Requirements

• A UK 2:2 honours degree in a relevant discipline (business, psychology, HR, sociology), or an equivalent international qualification. Applicants with three years of substantive HR, reward or OD experience may apply on a portfolio route.
• GCSE English Language at grade 5/C (or equivalent) is required for domestic applicants; international applicants meet the language rule below.
• IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
• A short statement of intent (600 words) explaining research or applied interests, plus two references (one academic, one workplace or professional-body).

Why Study at LSIBM

The London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a specialist business-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. Postgraduate cohorts run in small tutor-visible groups, are shaped by working senior practitioners (partner-level at a Big Four firm, Fellow-level at CIM or CIPD, CFA charter-holders in investment routes) and close with a substantial dissertation, sponsor consulting project or applied capstone defended in front of a working panel.

London puts the City, Canary Wharf, Whitehall, Companies House, the FCA, the Bank of England, the West End and the major consulting, banking and multinational headquarters within a short tube ride of every classroom. LSIBM postgraduates attend a fortnightly senior-practitioner clinic and a structured executive-application coaching programme in the final term.

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