Human Resource Management in Multinational Companies

Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences

Version 9.0 of 10/12/2017

22M0377

Human Resource Management in Multinational Companies

International Business and Management (Master) (M.A.)

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In international businesses human resource management always has an additional level of complexity. In order to handle this successfully it is useful to have an insight in the specific fields and challenges of international human resource management. Moreover, the strategic aspects of international human resource management have to be taken in account in order to be able not only to understand human resource issues and come to decisions of practical relevance.

• Conception of human resource management-Fundamental knowledge of the theory and paradigm formation -Strategic and international aspects
  
  Fields of activity of international human resource management
• Personnel selection in international companies
• Posting employees and (re-)integration
• International incentive structures and performance appraisal
  
  Leadership and motivation in multinational companies
  
  Gender related issues of career and talent management.

Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module
- are able to recognize human resources issues particularly within the context of companies operating on an international level.
- identify connections between decisions affecting human resources policies and business strategies.
Knowledge Deepening
Students who successfully complete this module
- are aware of a range of practice-relevant methods for dealing with IHRM challenges.
Instrumental Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module
- apply appropriate methods for dealing with IHRM challenges.
Communicative Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module
- are able to develop their own suggestions for dealing with challenges on the basis of suitable methods, and can critically assess and discuss the risks and opportunities involved.
Systemic Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module
- are able to deal appropriately with the complexity and decisions within international companies, and reach their own well-founded decisions.

Lecture, group work, role plays, self-awareness exercises, case studies, group exercises and presentations

Basic overview: Human Resource Management and Legal Systems

Böhmer, Nicole

• Böhmer, Nicole
• Steinert, Carsten
• Schinnenburg, Heike

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-Armstrong, Michael (2014) Armstrongs´s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. London.

-Crawley, E. et al. (2013): Introduction to International Human Resource Management. Oxford. -Dowling, Peter J.; Festing, Marion; Engle, Allen D. (2013): International Human Resource Management. Bath, Singapure.

-Ewards, Tony; Rees, Chris (2011): International Human Resource Management. Harlow.

Further literature will always be recommended at the beginning of the semester.

• Two-Hour Written Examination
• Oral Presentation / Seminar Paper
• Homework / Assignment

Oral examination/homework/1-hour written examination + assignments/2-hour written examination /presentation

1 Term

Only Winter Term

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