What is it all about?
The successful management of international projects requires the adequate application of modern project-related approaches, methods and tools. The challenges are considerable: it will not be enough to apply project management methods and tools in a standardized manner. It will also be necessary to tailor the application of different project management skills and use them in a situation- and context-specific manner.
On the other hand, the focus is on the goal-oriented organization of cooperation between people in an international context. Aspects of suitable leadership in and of projects, the effective coordination of teams and the targeted application of central methods and instruments of human resource management are relevant here. New forms of work, which are referred to with terms such as "agility", "new work" or "new normal", require a transformation of HR management with regard to the recruitment, retention and deployment of employees, but also with regard to the skills required by future managers in the area of HR.
The Human Resources & Project Management stream provides you with the essential skills to shape the interdisciplinary networking of human resources and project management in a future-oriented way as a future decision-maker and/or project manager.
The Human Resources & Project Management stream teaches this specialist content:
- Understand the basics, approaches and standards of international project work.
- Get to know and apply methods and instruments of modern project work.
- Assess and evaluate success factors and risks of projects.
- Get to know factors for putting together successful teams and transfer them to practical contexts.
- Effectively organize leadership of and in projects without a superior function.
- Apply concepts, core functions and activities of human resource management and evaluate them in terms of their contribution to value creation.
- Successfully organize international human resource management in global contexts.
- Get to know and apply self-management skills as an HR manager.
The Human Resources & Project Management stream is unique because:
- the successful organization of projects is understood as an interactive task of the disciplines of project management and human resource management.
- leadership and HRM design skills for modern international project management are taught.
- the disciplines of human resource management and project management are combined in the context of digitalization and skills are taught with regard to assuming project and leadership responsibility.
- a high level of practical relevance is ensured through case study and project-oriented work in a predominantly English-language study program.
The course content and curriculum of the Digital Supply Chain Management stream are designed as follows:
Example: Three-semester study option
| 1st semester | 2nd semester | 3rd semester |
| Leadership & Teams | Entrepreneurship and Mergers & Acquisitions | Thesis & Colloquium |
| Cross-Cultural Management | Human Resource Management | |
| Value-oriented corporate management | Managing Global Business Projects | |
| Marketing Management | Compulsory elective module | |
| Compulsory elective module | Compulsory elective module |
In the four-semester study option, the first and second semesters are identical to the three-semester study option. The third semester includes a practical semester or a semester abroad. The thesis and colloquium follow in the fourth semester.
The compulsory elective modules/electives can be chosen freely from the following range:
| 1st semester | 2nd semester |
| Strategic Management | Project Planning and Controlling |
| International Communication and Change Management | International Markets & Institutions |
| Cost Management | Quality Management and Standards |
| Principles of Digital Supply Chain Management | Corporate Sustainability |
| Supply chain planning under uncertainty | Self Management and Social Competencies |
| Management Case Studies | Competing in Global Markets |
Who does it suit?
Anyone wishing to study this stream must have:
A Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, business informatics, business logistics or similar, with at least 75% of the Bachelor's degree being in economics.
Who has a degree in this study program,
- works in the senior management of (international) medium-sized and large companies and other organizations or as a company founder.
- takes on initial management tasks in (international) projects or in the field of HRM
- or completes a doctorate, for example cooperatively at Fachhochschule Dortmund!
