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The objective of this lecture series is to provide students with a setting to enhance their understanding of the contemporary workplace and the importance of development and leading within it. After completing this course students shall have a solid understanding of dominant models that underpin developing and leading in today’s organizations, be able to employ these models for analyzing practical problems in the workplace, acknowledge the implications of these models for organizations and employees and develop a reflexive level of understanding of these models from managerial as well as from critical perspectives.

­the nature of managing and perspectives for studying development and leading the workplace, developing and leading in contemporary HRM, leading and change, leading through performance appraisals, leading through rewards, developing employees through training and workplace learning, developing managers, managing health and safety in the workplace

Inputs by the lecturers, discussing short texts, analyzing cases, short presentations by students

• Bratton, J. & Gold, J. (2012) Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice, 5th Edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Bratton, J., Sawchik, P., Forshaw, C., Callinan, M. & Corbett, M. (2010) Work & Organizational Behavior, 2nd edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Positive completion of the mandatory course "Fundamentals of Management: organization and HRM" referred to in §6 (2-4) and four additional mandatory courses from the core area of management referred to in §6 (2)

Leading and staff development is designed as a follow up to 433001 VO Organisation und Organisieren & Personalpolitik or a similar course offered by another university.