Marcus wins major award for his work (From Worcester News)

Marcus wins major award for his work

3:24pm Tuesday 16th March 2010 in

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A GRADUATE intern at the University of Worcester has scooped a top business prize.

Marcus Parsons was awarded the EEF prize for outstanding attainment in human resource management (HRM).

The award is given for the best grade performance across two final year HRM specialist modules and HRM-specific independent studies.

Mr Parsons graduated with a first in his business management and computing degree at the University of Worcester. He studied business modules in employee relations, organisational change and development, corporate social responsibility and contemporary issues in the public sector.

For his independent study, he investigated how organisational change and development has affected the motivation of employees within a Metropolitan borough council’s children’s services department.

Mr Parsons, who is working as a graduate intern in the university’s data management unit, received £100 and a day at EEF.

He said: “I’m really pleased to have won this award. I’m interested in the fields of organisational change and development, and would like to pursue a related career in human resources (HR). My long-term ambition is to be self-employed and teach HR-associated subjects at university level.”

Andrew Forrest, HR and legal leader at EEF Midlands awarded the prize to Mr Parsons.

“We are delighted to once again support the University of Worcester in its activities to ensure the best human resources and industrial relations training is provided to future practitioners,” he said.

EEF helps manufacturing businesses evolve, innovate and compete in a fast-changing world.

Through a combination of business services, government representation and industry intelligence, it provides support to over 6,000 manufacturing, engineering and technology companies in the UK.