Human Resources

• Basics of business organization
• Development of organizational theory
• Development and design of the organizational structure
• Alternative forms of organizational structure
• Human resource management tasks
• Personnel planning, selection and deployment
• Performance management
• Personnel development and talent management
• Compensation management
• Co-determination regulations

The course gives the students a basic introduction to the content-related tasks of company organization and personnel management. The students should: 

• get to know the most important organizational theories and their contribution to the analysis of organizational structures 
• get to know alternative structures of organizations 
• get to know modern structural forms 
• recognize the tasks of the personnel management as well as their classification in the company management 
• get to know the essential methods and processes of personnel planning and selection, personnel deployment, personnel evaluation and development as well as employee remuneration 
• evaluate and select HR management instruments in selected situations and develop basic skills with regard to their application 
• get to know the basic co-determination regulations in the Federal Republic of Germany 
• record the special requirements of international personnel management in addition to imparting methodological and conceptual knowledge, the focus of the module is the development of skills / competencies for practical application as well as the development and evaluation of the instruments of personnel management and organizational design.
  

English taught program. 

• Schreyögg, G.: Organisation – Grundlagen der modernen Organisationsgestaltung, 5. Aufl., Wiesbaden 2008.
• Kieser, A./ Ebers, M. (Hrsg.): Organisationstheorie, 6. Aufl., Stuttgart 2006.
• Armstrong, M.: Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 11th edition, Chicago 2010.
• Drumm, H.: Personalwirtschaft, 5. Aufl., Berlin 2005
• Lazear, E.P.: Personnel Economics for Managers, Hoboken, NJ1998.