Human Resources Management 

The degree program consists of general studies and course specific modules.
Your general studies will cover the following modules:

• General Business Administration
• Company Taxation
• Business Information Systems
• Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research
• Economics
• Law
• Intercultural Compentence
• Ethics and Corporate and Social Responsibility

 You will spend approximately 50% of your degree on these general courses.

 The rest of the time will be taken up with your course specific modules.

 The following courses will be offered alongside the general studies program:

• psychological and social fundamentals of Human Resources work (motivation, job satisfaction, company culture etc)
• employment law
• Human Resources policies and strategic personnel management
• procurement, selection and employment of new staff
• redundancy of employees
• organization of working hours, working environment and employment system
• remuneration and benefits for employees
• apprenticeship and further training programs
• staff development, organization development and change management
• personnel management and deployment of IT in the Human Resources field  

Human Resources management is changing away from the traditional role of staff administration and is taking on a future-oriented role featuring active organization.  As well as administrative duties Human Resources employees are increasingly expected to advise (service function) and develop concepts (strategic function) for personnel work. Therefore Human Resources Management has experienced an intensive change so that the scope of duties of the modern Human Resources Manager are only partly as they formerly were.  There is now a focus on strategic orientation of business processes, culture elements in change management and quality management of one’s own work – these are the current catchwords.  In the field of staff and organization development a step has been taken from the classic organizer of company seminars to the tutor of individual development processes or the initiator and tutor of complex change processes in companies (organization development).  Therefore it is important during your studies to become involved in such topics which go beyond classic perspectives, eg modern management concepts. 

As well as participating in fundamentals of Human Resources Management and employment law, students will be able to take specific seminars some of which are options.  Assessment will be in the form of assignments and presentations.  As a rule the Bachelor thesis will be written as an internship project in cooperation with a company.  The University has an excellent network of contacts with companies so students will have no difficulty whatsoever in finding a suitable internship and project topic for their Bachelor thesis. 

Graduates require excellent consultancy skills in order to be successful in practice.  In the Human Resources Management study program we focus on the development of social competence for our students. We offer regular training seminars on the topics of presentations, how to interact in a group, project management, chairing group meetings, negotiations or applications.  Another special feature is the Personnel forum whose members include 250 company representatives.  The lectures held in the personnel forum are course-related so that by the end of their studies students will have gained information about the latest developments in practice.

International orientation is an important focus and we encourage students to take part in a study semester abroad as well as participate in regular student conferences with European partner universities.

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