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Modulangebot Management 30 LP (ab SoSe 24)

0518c_m30

  • Supply and Operations Management (Supply and Operations Management)

    0170dA1.7

    learning objectives:
     Students are sensitive to the centrality of the production of goods or services as a core function of any operational occurrence. They also know the challenges associated with the transformation of inputs into output factors under given resources. They have basic knowledge of the current, field-tested strategies, methods and models to solve production-economic problems, in particular with respect to the time schedule of the individual production steps, taking into account the quantitative link between inputs and output objects. The students also have an overview of the procurement management (supply management), where development of and cooperation with suppliers is an important topic.

    course content:
     Demand forecast, materials management (especially storage), choice of production processes and suppliers, procurement strategies and organization, human resource planning, approaches to quality assurance, production theory and production planning, work organization within production.

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Übung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

    close
    • 10110601 Lecture
      Supply and Operations Management (V) (Jörg Sydow)
      Schedule: Mo 18:00-19:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-17)
      Location: Online - zeitABhängig
    • 10110602 Practice seminar
      Supply and Operations Management (Ü) (Carolin Puhl)
      Schedule: Mi 17:30-18:30, Mi 19:00-20:00, Do 17:30-18:30, Do 19:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
      Location: Mi Online - zeitABhängig, Do Online - zeitABhängig, Fr Online - zeitABhängig

  • Strategisches Management (Strategic Management)

    0170dA1.8

    learning objectives:
     Students gain a fundamental understanding of current challenges involved in the strategic management of businesses today. They learn about the goals and responsibilities involved with this field as well as its main instruments and methods. They learn the essential theoretical principles of strategic management and can analyze the stages of strategic decision-making based on these theories. They also become familiar with alternative competitive strategies, which come at the end of strategic analysis and can appraise them critically.

    course content:
     Responsibilities of strategic decision-makers, analysis of resources and capabilities, analysis of market conditions, assessment of alternative competitive strategies and collective corporate strategies.

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Übung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

    close
    • 10110801 Lecture
      Strategic Management (V) (Miriam Flickinger)
      Schedule: Mo 10:00-13:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2022-10-24)
      Location: HFB/C Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37)
    • 10110802 Practice seminar
      Strategic Management (Ü) (Johann Voigtsberger)
      Schedule: Di 17:00-20:00, Do 17:00-20:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2022-11-10)
      Location: HFB/C Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37), Hs 103 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)

  • Fundamentals of Employment Relations

    0170dA1.9

    learning objectives:
     Students gain knowledge about current issues and theoretical approaches in personnel policy research. They acquire basic knowledge on areas of activity and the parameters of personnel policy. They learn about current debates and can make connection to practical applications, including international contexts. They develop the ability to interpret personnel policy cases based on the application of theoretical approaches and concepts. They also learn to formulate and evaluate courses of actions for specific cases. They learn to assess theoretical, conceptual research as well as empirical research using criteria from the social sciences. Student gain knowledge about the role of gender in the workplace and the challenges and perspectives surrounding social diversity in businesses. The methods that the students learn and apply enable them to put their knowledge to practice based on theoretical reflection, which is important for anyone working in management.

    course content:
     Problems and theoretical approaches to personnel policy as a research field; courses of action in human resources management (e.g., recruiting, qualification, personnel placement, work organization, remuneration, dismissals, diversity management); social parameters of personnel policy (e.g., historical developments, gender and labor, digitalization) in both national (e.g. democratic decision-making, labor market, labor law) and international contexts (e.g. personnel policy in multinational corporations, comparative international labor relations, global labor standards).

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Übung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

    close

  • Unternehmenskooperation (Business Cooperation)

    0170dB1.1

    learning objectives:
     Students gain an overview of fundamental questions and recent developments in inter-firm cooperation: from research and development to production and marketing. They learn about the typical strategic and organizational challenges of inter-firm cooperation. They become familiar with and understand selected concepts and theories related to the management of inter-organizational relations and learn how to use them in analyzing problems that arise in in handling concrete cases.

    course content:
     Management as a function, institution and practices; organizational and legal forms of inter-firm relations; from a system of internal contracts and putting-out system to project networks and virtual companies; reflective network development through network management.

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Methodenübung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

    close

  • International Management (International Management)

    0170dB1.3

    learning objectives:
     Students learn to classify different institutional frameworks in which multinational companies operate economically and understand the unique qualities of individual national forms of economic organization and corporate governance. They learn to identify comparative advantages that certain economic activities have in different national contexts as well as the difficulties involved in the internationalization of certain activities. They learn to describe multinational corporations in terms of organization forms and become familiar with the different challenges associated with, on the one end, the local adaptation of their activities and, on the other, the global integration of them. They learn to apply their knowledge of these issues to questions of personnel management in an international context and question of international strategic management. They learn to critically assess the actions of multinational corporations and the implications of their activities in home and host countries. Through research-oriented teaching, students learn how to develop a social science research question on a given topic. They also learn how to debate theories and concepts as well as how to assess the significance of both theoretical, conceptual research as well as empirical studies.

    course content:
     Topics include: formal and informal institutions from an international comparative perspective; theories on comparative advantages of institutions; labor relations systems; corporate governance systems; professional/vocation training and innovation systems; the role of the state; globalization; emerging markets; foreign direct investment; organizational forms of multinational companies; global supply chains; internationalization theories; market entry and market cultivation strategies; personnel management in multinational companies. The study and analysis of the various topics will focus on specific countries in Asia (Japan, China), Europe (Germany, UK), and America (USA).

    language of instruction:
     German/English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / irregular

    close
    • 10111508 Advanced Lecture Course
      International Management (V) (Anja Kirsch)
      Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
      Location: Online - zeitABhängig
    • 10111526 Methods Tutorial
      International Management (Ü) (Tobias Zimmermann)
      Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00, Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-27)
      Location: HFB/B Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37)

  • Modules w/o courses in this semester

    5 Modules
    • Management - Eine problemorientierte Einführung 0518cA1.1
    • Organisationstheorie 0518cA1.2
    • Organisationsforschung 0518cA1.3
    • Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility 0170dB1.2
    • Project Management 0170dB1.5

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