Course: Human Resource Management (5702-421)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Marion Büttgen (verantwortlich)

Type of Course:

lecture with exercise

In-Class Hours Per Week:

3

Contents:

Strategic HR management poses a complex task that calls for the consideration of not only professional and personal requirements of managers. Increasingly, also the situational context of companies and the specific challenges of their management need to be considered. Demographic change, diversity of employees, variable team structures, shortage of skilled professionals, talent management, changing requirements for employee competencies, new media-shaped forms of work, social responsibility and work-life balance are key challenges of HR management these days. Within the course students are taught to understand and reflect existing HRM theories and HRM concepts to access their usability to meet the current challenges. Additionally, they learn to make use of academic research results in order to generate recommendations for companies` HR management.

Literature:

Lang, Karl (2008): Human Resources Management. Wirksame Konzepte einer modernen Personalpolitik, Wien

Stock-Homburg, Ruth (2008): Personalmanagement. Theorien - Konzepte - Instrumente, Wiesbaden

Stock-Homburg, Ruth/Wolff, Brigitta (Hrsg.) (2011): Handbuch Strategisches Personalmanagement, Wiesbaden

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 5702-420 Human Resource Management (compulsory)
• 5400-420 - (semi-elective)

eLearning:

Course in ILIAS