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Strategic human resource management (SHRM) means dealing with how human resources work can promote the continued existence of a company. This requires establishing arrangements in recruitment and development, in work organization and in the maintenance of workforce, which not only enable efficient production, but also meet the needs of employees, legislators and society. This course encourages students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the extent to which the increasing demands on personnel work can be reconciled. The course focuses on the balance of different legitimate expectations and a critical examination of the implementation options.

• HR strategies
• human resource management and competitiveness
• participation forms
• dimensions of the balance of interests
• implementation of personnel measures

Time-flexible self-study units with video clips, reading tasks and smaller work assignments to introduce the topics; discussion of work assignments, deepening of the topics by means of case studies and practical lectures in the virtual classroom

­Final exam (open-book)

Boselie, Paul (2014). Strategic Human Resource Management. A Balanced Approach. 2. Auflage. McGraw-Hill.

successful completion of the compulsory module Fundamentals of Management: Organisation and Human Resource Management and of four further compulsory modules from the core area of management acc. to §5 par. 1