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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Joint Master's Program Global Business - Canada/Taiwan 2020W |
| Objectives |
This course provides students with a comprehensive insight into Work Ethics in different cultural contexts, into Human Resource Management as well as into Industrial Relations.
Students will critically analyze the current trends in HRM and gain some in-depth knowledge of Industrial Relations by using the example of the Austrian Social Partnership. In addition important principles of Academic Writing will be revised.
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| Subject |
This course introduces the students to the following subject areas:
- HR Buzzwords - From ‘Work-Life-Balance’ to ‘Burnout’: How exactly does trendy and new HRM terminology depict the changes in Personnel Management?
- How will our work life be organized in the future? (trends, challenges, etc.)
- Comparison of different Work Ethics: What are the pillars of Anglo-American/Asian/Central European Work Ethics? In which respect are they similar/different?
- Industrial Relations: explained by using the example of the “Austrian Social Partnership” (history, institutions, tasks, challenges)
- Academic Writing: exercises to improve cohesion/coherence and sentence structure, quotation rules, etc.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
- Participation
- Oral and written assignments throughout the semester
- One formal presentation
- One written paper
- One written in-class-exam
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| Methods |
Lecture, group work, presentations, panel discussions
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| Language |
English |
| Changing subject? |
No |
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