Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

Successful completion of the course Human Resource Management

• Work-related human images
• Personality and values
• Performance motivation and job satisfaction
• HR Gamification
• Individual and organisation (perception, cognition, learning, emotion)
• Work design, human factor, human error
• Organisational climate
• Organisational culture
• Diversity management
• Personnel secondment, working abroad

Successful companies build a positive organisational culture, create an organisational climate in which employees can develop and are motivated in their activities. Employee satisfaction, motivation, occupational psychology findings and concepts as well as the basics of what is referred to as organisational behaviour round off the acquisition of competences in the subject area of human resources begun in the second semester.

The students can define motivation and motives and explain at least one content theory and one process theory of motivation. They also know the difference between and the connections between motivation and job satisfaction. The students are able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different interventions to increase work motivation using an example. In practical cases, they are able to develop concepts for targeted increases in motivation and/or performance in a well-founded manner and analyse a work situation/workplace as well as draft proposals for improved work design and the reduction of sources of errors and stress.

The students know the meaning of the terms organisational culture and organisational climate and can describe the organisational culture of an organisation using an example and a cultural theory. They can reflect on work-related norms, values, roles and images of people for themselves and justify their own position on this and they can examine their own experienced and given case studies with various theories and concepts of organisational behaviour and derive options for improvement for a practical case in a well-founded manner.

Students will be able to explain the basics and concepts of perception, cognition, learning, emotion and how these are effective in the corporate context.

The students know different diversity dimensions, can give examples of them and discuss different diversity factors and their design.

The students are able to present opportunities and risks of an assignment abroad and can plan goals and implementation steps for an assignment abroad and argue with reference to knowledge from the HRM/OB areas of assignment, culture and diversity.

Interactive course with lecture, case studies, exercises in individual and group work, presentations and homework.

Written exam, written paper, individual weighting according to the instructors, announcement at the beginning of the semester

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Furnham, Adrian (2005): The Psychology of Behavior at Work. New York: Psychology Press.

Kühn, Stephan; Platte, Iris; Wottawa, Heinrich (2006): Psychologische Theorien für Unternehmen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Robbins, Stephen P.; Judge, Tim A. (2014): Organizational Behaviour. Boston: Pearson.

Rosenstiel, Lutz von (2007): Grundlagen der Organisationspsychologie. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel.

Classes with compulsory attendance in individual teaching units (simulation game, seminars, excursions) supplemented by asynchronous teaching units for the presentation of elementary basics, which are assumed as given knowledge