Law, Personnel Management and Personnel Psychology
Are you interested in exciting jobs at the interface of law, personnel management and personnel psychology?
The Law, Personnel Management and Personnel Psychology degree programme prepares you for exactly this in a practical way and opens up a wide range of job and career opportunities in the field of human resources. HR work is multifaceted. It ranges from recruiting and hiring new employees to promoting and developing them through to their departure and takes care of all their concerns during the so-called "employee journey".
Facts at a glance
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Typical fields of employment
- HR areas, such as personnel officer, business partner, collaboration in personnel development
- Personnel consulting companies
- Labour law advice in companies or associations
Study contents
- Civil law (e.g. general part, law of obligations and property law)
- Fundamentals of business psychology
- Fundamentals of personnel management
- Collective labour law (e.g. collective bargaining and industrial action law)
- Dismissal protection law
- Labour law in practice and in a corporate crisis
- Law of payment of remuneration
- Recruitment, selection and retention of personnel
- Personnel development
- Performance and remuneration management
- Methods of empirical social research
Study programme
- 1st to 3rd semester: Basics
- 4th semester: Practical phase/mobility window
- 5th to 6th semester: specialisation studies
- 7th Semester: Practical phase and Bachelor's thesis
Study programme overview
Possible Master's programme at the Ostfalia
- International Law and Business (LL.M.)
- Law, Human Resource Management and Personnel Psychology (M.A.)
- Finance, Tax and Company Law (LL.M.)
- Sustainability and Risk Management (M.Sc.)
