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The objective of this course (in conjunction with the PS/2 Basic Course HRM: Leading and staff development) is to provide students with a deeper understanding of the contemporary workplace and the nature of employee development and leadership in organizations. After completing this course students should be able to:

• Explain in detail some of dominant models that underpin leading and developing people in organizations
• ­Employ these models in analysing practical problems in the workplace
• ­Describe the implications these models have for managing organizations and employees
• ­Consider these models from managerial, critical, and feminist perspectives
• ­ Critically evaluate research papers in the field of HRM, and
• ­  Will have produced a group paper on a research topic in the field of leading and staff development

• ­Approaches for managing people in the workplace and their implications for leading and developing employees
• ­ HRM strategies and their role in corporate strategy
• ­ Staffing organizations including workforce planning, talent management, recruitment & selection
• ­Reward management
• Leadership

Lectures, in-class exercises (e.g., case analyses, debates, simulations), short presentations by students

­Final exam

Bratton, J. & Gold, J. (2012) Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice, 5th Edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Bratton, J., Sawchik, P., Forshaw, C., Callinan, M. & Corbett, M. (2010) Work & Organizational Behavior, 2nd edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Positive completion of the mandatory course "Fundamentals of Management: organization and HRM" referred to in §6 (2-4) and four additional mandatory courses from the core area of management referred to in §6 (2)

Leading and staff development is designed as a follow up to 433001 VO Organisation und Organisieren & Personalpolitik or a similar course offered by another university.