Law, Personnel Management and Personnel Psychology
Are you interested in opportunites at the interface of law, personnel management and psychology?
The degree programme is aimed at prospective specialists and managers who want to take on tasks in the human resources environment. The interlinking of content from the three areas of law, personnel management and personnel psychology prepares graduates to take on important functions, in particular management tasks, in various areas of the company and to shape the future of personnel management.
Facts at a glance
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Typical fields of employment
- HR expert or manager in personnel departments
- HR expert or manager in personnel consulting companies
- HR expert for labour law issues in companies
Study contents
- Economics and human resource management:
- Strategic and operational corporate management
- Strategic organisational tasks in personnel management, also internationally
- optional*: Two-semester consultancy project, ideally in cooperation with regional companies or organisations
- Law:
- Conflict resolution in labour law
- Structure and limits in labour law
- International labour law
- Corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and business ethics and their legal framework conditions
- optional*: two-semester "Moot Court" project
- Personnel Psychology:
- Psychological challenges in the changing world of work
- optional*: two-semester research project, sometimes in collaboration with regional companies or organisations
*Choose a research or consulting project. The project in which you participated will be indicated on your transcript.
Admission requirements
- business (oriented), law (oriented) or business law-oriented university degree (Bachelor or Diplom) with a standard period of study of 7 semesters or 210 credit points or an equivalent degree including 12 credit points from courses in the field of law, this including 2 credit points in labour law
- In the case of enrolment with 180 credit points, the missing 30 credit points must be completed within one year of enrolment
- language of instruction: German
Study costs
Semester fee
