Human Resource Management and Leadership

22C9014

Bachelor

English

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

Employees play an important role for the quality of service in companies, especially in the event management industry. This module introduces students to the basic competences in HRM, focusing particularly on the event and trade fair management sector. The students obtain an overview of important HRM functions and receive information applicable to their own situation as applicants, (future) employees and team members.

Human Resource Management, including concepts of HRM and actual challenges, including

• Event-specific aspects of HRM
• HR-challenges in China, e.g. expectations of the young generation, intergenerational differences and conflicts
• Diversity and gender role aspects of HRM
• HR functions – overview and interdependence
• Staff requirement calculation
• Selection of staff
• Performance appraisal
• Human resource development and training
• Group development
• Principles of staff leadership and motivation
• Rewards
• Health and safety
• Controlling
• Leadership
• Definition leading
• Research results on leadership
• Leadership models
• Groups, teams and leading of teams
• Case studies leadership

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Portfolio exam

The portfolio examination consists of:

PFP1: a presentation (30%) and a one-hour exam (70%)
PFP2: a seminar paper with oral and written parts (R; 30%) and a one-hour exam (70%)
PFP3: a orally presented case study (FSM; 30%) and a one-hour exam (70%)

Written examination: in accordance with the valid study regulations

Presentation: approx. 15-20 minutes

Seminar paper: approx. 5-10 pages/ approx. 10 -15 minutes

Oral case study: approx. 30 minutes

The requirements are specified in the relevant class.

None

Students who successfully complete this module have an understanding of how HRM theory and practice has emerged to play a key role in shaping organizational and working life, of the connection between business strategies and approaches to people management and an understanding of how HRM strategy and practices are developed and applied in organizations in order to drive business performance. They understand the specific challenges of HRM in event and service organizations.

Students who successfull complete this module

• can explain important approaches and instruments of personnel management. They can point out the changing demands on employees and managers against the background of social, economic, organizational and cultural developments. They can define the contribution of human resource management to the operational value creation process and formulate forward-looking elements of successful leadership behavior.
• can develop suitable personnel management concepts for cases from practice - develop a suitable selection procedure and critically analyze found situations and instruments as well as present improvement/solution proposals.
• can critically evaluate personnel management concepts as well as management actions against the background of the changed world of work and communicate suggestions for solving problems.
• can use examples to demonstrate the interrelationship of various personnel management instruments in the corporate system. They will be able to recognize the connections between the management situation; the people being managed and the manager as well as the organizational framework. They are able to modify management instruments and incentive systems in order to design employee management in line with the requirements of the new working world.

Students who successfully complete this module understand human resource management practices and their objectives, can evaluate human resource management practices in use, can develop and adapt appropriate human resource management practices for different companies and can determine the fit of different human resource management practices with different organizational goals and environments.

After successfully completing the module, students are able to:

• understand the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in human resource management.
• understand the special nature of an international perspective in human resource management.
• explain the basic principles of international human resource management, taking into account approaches and methods relating to business, industrial law and business psychology, and describe their relevance to the global context.
• identify the problems of managing staff in terms of the relationship between the individual and the organisation, outline the organisation of management processes and organise ground work for personnel management.
• explain requirements and conditions of change management and apply these to plans and action.
• explain and evaluate aspects of sustainability in the context of leadership.

Students who successfully complete this module are able to

• see problems in HRM by using an individual and organisational perpective.
• find important research questions in the area of HRM.
• use the crititcal incident method especially in the area of HRM (event management).
• present actual results of recruiting, motivation and leadership research.

Students who successfully complete this module

• can present personnel management content in a structured manner and also describe and discuss it in writing.
• can communicate appropriately and mindfully using their HR knowledge within the student team as well as with future applicants. They can use this to exchange information and knowledge and to cooperate when working together.

Competencies and skills that reflect economic, technological and social environmental dynamics and help implement these dynamics in a proactive way with regard to staff and organisation-related issues in an international context are among the most important factors for the success of dynamic organisations.

• Principles of Business Management
• Strategic Management

• International Event Management Shanghai (IEMS), B.A.

• Werner, Kim

• Schlangen, Stefan