Business Administration: Human Resource Management

The purpose of Human Resource Management is to mobilize people. However, this is not a straightforward process considering the ever changing organizational environment in which contemporary HRM performs. To account for critical organizational challenges such as employee development, staffing, performance and diversity, our HRM programme aims to help students develop skills and competencies needed to mobilize employees in contemporary organizations.

The philosophy of our program is to focus on HRM in a contemporary perspective, thereby explicitly highlighting the changing HRM environment. This changing environment is characterized by an increasing emphasis on innovation, proactivity, and multidisciplinary analysis, propelled by key societal and organizational changes, such as increasing flexibility of work, changing employer-employee relationships, digitalization, and international mobility of staff. Our philosophy implies that the current HRM environment impacts all HR-related processes. In this programme we focus specifically on four key processes: employee development, staffing, performance, and diversity. These processes subsequently link to our courses, and will be integrated throughout the program, thereby creating a multidisciplinary approach to studying HRM.