Course content

Alongside the compulsory modules Strategic Management and Organisation & Leadership in the first semester, and International Business Relations and Empirical Social Research in the second semester, students on the master's degree programme Human Resource Management gain profound insights into and awareness of the following areas:

Specialisation modules

Human Resource Management I

Employer Branding, HR marketing and Recruiting

•    Demographics, the Employment Market & Target Groups

•    From Brand Design to  Employer Branding

•    Employer Branding in Practice

•    Internal (Employer-) Branding

•    Social Media in HR Marketing

•    Marketing for Vocational Training 2.0

•    Innovative Campus Recruitment

•    Candidate Experience

•    Modern Recruiting in Theory & Practice

•    Special subject: Mobile Recruiting

Human Resource Management II

HR Strategy

•    The linking of corporate strategy and HR management

•    The provision of human capital: HR architecture and the selection of instruments

•    Approaches to strategy implementation: among other things strategic HR planning and human capital management

HR development & talent management

•    Traditional and modern HR development instruments in theory and practice

•    Career pathway models

•    HR development aligned to the various phases in people's lives

•    Personality models and testing procedures / PE-Assessment-Centre

•    Talent and talent-relationship-management

•    E-Learning in theory and practice

•    HR controlling

•    HR project management

•    Moderation training and further management skills

•    E-Learning case studies

HR-related  optional compulsory modules

Performance management

(Offered every winter semester)

Performance Management

•    The concept of goal orientation

•    Performance related compensation

•    Agreement of objectives and the corresponding bonuses

•    Team and individual goals

•    Implementation of objective setting systems

Compensation & Benefits

•    The component parts which make up compensation  - Basic compensation, variable compensation and additional benefits

•    Methods of job evaluation - Basis and design of compensation schemes

•    Compensation studies and market comparisons

•    Design variants of compensation structures

•    The interplay of both monetary and non-monetary incentive systems

•    Empirical findings –the influence of compensation on the recruitment, retention and motivation of staff 

International HR management

(Offered every winter semester)

•    The institutional and socio-cultural scope of international HR management

•    The trend towards globalisation and internationalisation in HR management

•    The global recruitment and development of staff

•    The effect of global pressures on wage setting

•    Staff deployment

In the third semester: Stay abroad or academic project and academic study

In the third semester students may opt for a stay abroad. For those who do not opt for a stay abroad or wish to go, there is the opportunity to conduct an academic study as well as a project dealing with HR-related issues .