Online Course Guide of WHU –
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Please use the filters below to select the term (spring or fall) as well as the respective program (BSc, MSc, MBA, Exchange, Doctoral) of your choice for an overview of all modules offered at WHU. The courses are listed under the modules. Please click on a module to see which courses are part of it. If you would like to find out more about a certain course, click on the name of the course to see detail information. The location of the lecture will be revealed after your course registration on myWHUstudies.
Spring term counts from January - August, fall term counts from September - December.
Important for Exchange Students: As the Full-Time and Part-Time MBA Programs utilize a modular course structure, the dates on which students begin and end the exchange are flexible. Please find here a chronological overview of the preliminary course offering for Fall and Spring.
Human Resource Management
(Please note that exchange students obtain a higher number of credits in the BSc-program at WHU than listed here. For further information please contact directly the International Relations Office.)
Course Content
This course offers you a broad overview of the role of HRM from a strategic, organizational, and individual perspective. In fact, effective management of HR has become a competitive advantage and involves not only employment planning (i.e., recruiting, selecting, and retaining employees) but also effectively managing the “human side of business”.
The aim of this class is to provide you with the theoretical knowledge related to these aspects and offer you practically applicable tools to handle them. Because it has become more common for non-HR specialists to implement or plan HR initiatives, and because employees themselves have become responsible for services that were previously provided by HR specialists like for instance scouting for training and development opportunities, the content of this class will be relevant for you, regardless of the functional area in which you will operate in the future.
Furthermore, the individual assignments in this class (current research presentation and reflection report) can serve you as a valuable preparation for your Bachelor thesis. This way, you will get the opportunity to exercise literature research and structured evaluations of academic papers. The skills that you develop accordingly will serve you well in writing your final thesis.
Class Dates
Date
Time
Learning Outcomes
- Students will have the capacity to learn individually and communicate their opinions/ findings effectively and rigorously as well as to broaden their competences on their own.
- Students can use methods and tools and apply theories of related sciences, which are necessary to understand business and economic sciences.
- Students will apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Students will produce documents of a highly professional standard.
- Students will be able to transfer theoretical knowledge into managerial and entrepreneurial practice.
Literature
Learning Methods
- Lecturing
- Case work
- Group and individual work
Form of examination
- Your first task is to work on a case study that is related to "Digitalization in HR".
- You will prepare a brief presentation and present your main findings as a group.
Current research presentation (20%, individual grade)
- Your second task is to find a current research article that was published in a peer-reviewed high-quality journal relating to a class topic of your choice.
- You will summarize the essence of the paper (i.e., what the article is about, which theory or theories it applies and what kind of practical implications it offers) on a single ppt slide that you will present in class.
- You must turn in the article, or link to the article, with the slide.
Reflection report (50%, individual grade)
- Your third task is to write a brief critical reflection (3 pages + references) on a theory or research construct that we discussed in class.
- You will discuss the practical implications and applicability of the theory or research construct and reflect on its limits and potential implied drawbacks.
- You are free to choose which theory or construct you would like to address.