3904187: Human resources and relations management

Description

• Managing Human Resources
• Leadership
• Operations Organisation and Organisational Behaviour
• Project, Change and Conflict Management
• Teambuilding

Lecture Goals

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Additional Information for summer term 2015
The Module Human Resources and Relations Management is a team oriented, practical workshop. The participants learn and apply theories and methodologies in a case study of a virtual company that they create and run. The workshop confronts them with an unknown environment outside the University that is very different than a classic classroom approach. This workshop will get them out of their personal "comfort zones" without overstressing them. The situation causes the students to constantly re-evaluate their roles within the team, their interactions with each other and their measures they apply to accomplish the goals.

The participants will constantly be evaluated throughout this workshop by peer-review, performance review and the degree to which they have achieved their objectives.Project and Process Management¿ will be applied as powerful Management Tools.

The 3 day workshop will serve as a case study in which the students participate. After there is a reflection phase during which literature review and research will be applied to their experiences. Finally participants have to document their key findings and lessons learned in a written seminar work and prepare a presentation to transfer this new knowledge to their fellow students.

Learning Outcomes

The concept of the workshop is to create a simulation of real business situations. Because there does not exist any absolute formula for success the students are empowered and encouraged to find their own solutions. The lecturers in this module offer active guidance and feedback during this process. The students are also given time to reflect upon their experiences as the workshop progresses by writing a personal "Leadership Diary".

In order to prepare the students for their future professional careers "Project and Process Management" will be applied as powerful Management Tools.

The 3 day workshop will serve as a case study in which the students participate. After there is a reflection phase during which literature review and research will be applied to their experiences. Finally participants have to document their key findings and lessons learned in a written seminar work and prepare a presentation to transfer this new knowledge to their fellow students

Admission Requirements

* Attendance mandatory

Literature

> Adams, J. S. (1965). Inequity in social exchange. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 267-299). New York: Academic Press.

Selected Articles and Books

> Armstrong, M. (2006): Strategic Human Resource Management: A Guide to Action. 3. Aufl., Thomson-Shore.

> Beel, J. (2007). Project Team Rewards - rewarding your project Team. First Edition. CreateSpace LLC, Scotts Valley, USA.

> Drucker, P. F. (1954). The Practice of Management. New York: Harper & Row.

> Herzberg, F. and Mausner, B. and Bloch Snyderman, B. (1993). The Motivation to Work (10th Edition). Transaction Publishers.

> Malik, F. (2006). Managing Performing Living. Campus Verlag

> Maslow, A. (1943). A Theory Of Human Motivation in Psychological Review 50 (4) pp. 370-96.

Materials

Teaching material will be provided according to the requirements of the actual case study

Comments

The workshop will take place at an off-site location. For accommodation and food a participation fee of CHF 199 will be required. This fee must be paid at the secretarial office of the Institute of Information Systems before March 1st. The transport to and from the location has to be organized and paid for by the students.

In the first session the lecturers Dr. Ed Weiss and Hagen Poehnert will introduce the module to the students and give further specific information and first instructions.