MBA Program in Montreux
MBA - Human Resources Management

This course covers the source, uses and management of corporate finance. Students learn to analyze and create alternative investment projects and to prepare corresponding budgets. Topics include the managerial approach to financial analysis, budgeting, planning and control, the management of working capital, long-term assets and long-term financing.

This course analyses the micro-functions of human resources management and explores its importance in developing, motivating and retaining employees. Students will learn about recruitment and talent acquisition, training, mentoring and promotion, appraisal, fair compensation, conflict resolution and legal issues. The 21st century brings new challenges to the field of Human Resources (HR), owing to changing employee–employer relationships and changing employee expectations.

Throughout the course students are encouraged to consider the moral and ethical dimensions of HRM decisions, which can affect stakeholders and the organization’s reputation.

International managers in industry and organizations need a comprehensive understanding of how economic, environmental, social and political change impact their work and decision making. This course examines basic economic principles used in managerial situations. Topics include: global interdependence and the benefits of trade; market forces of supply and demand; supply, demand and government policies; measuring a nation’s income and cost of living; production and growth; savings, investment and the financial systems; unemployment; the monetary system; and money and inflation.

The strategic positioning of an organization is instrumental to its success. Having a clear vision and mission that runs throughout the organization is key to both internal and external branding. To optimize the overall performance of a firm or a business unit within a firm, students learn to identify and analyze the drivers of performance and identify external changes that may affect optimal results. This course reviews the main concepts, methods and tools used in formulating strategies and implementing processes.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the functions, costs, and implications inherent in the use of Information Systems and technology today. Students explore how companies make the most of their investment for managing and tracking data as well as communicating both internally and externally at a time when global issues have led to rapid, unprecedented change, forcing companies and individuals to adapt to professional work conditions via an ever-increasing reliance on computer systems and technologies.

This seminar focuses on effective oral and written communication in a business setting. Emphasis is placed key principles that will enhance communication and effectiveness, as well as the development of skills and attitudes appropriate for business communication, especially in public speaking.

As businesses are increasingly required to adapt their strategies to meet ethical standards, a sound understanding of the legal complexities of such issues is essential. Businesses today must embrace a plethora of ethical issues and practices or risk expensive litigation or damage to their reputations. This short seminar introduces the concept of ethics and the growing demands made on businesses. Then it enumerates some issues where law and ethics intersect in business issues, such as the concept of stakeholder capitalism; IPR and access to medicines; and data protection and privacy. Finally, the course discusses a few case study examples that highlight the issue.

This two-part personal and professional development program prepares postgraduate students for becoming next generation leaders. Each session involves different learning methods, spanning both theoretical and experiential learning, and includes self-assessment tools, self-awareness techniques, role-playing, peer-interviewing, journaling, meditation and goal setting, among others. Students will find their purpose and meaning during their EU journey, hone their emotional and social intelligence skills, and determine their career anchors and occupational types.

The effective manager must understand a wide range of technical and social relationships and be able to integrate them within the cost, performance and time constraints of her/his area of responsibility. A computer-based management simulation (CAPSTONE Business Simulation) is created, which allows the student to test alternative actions of an operating business in a competitive environment without incurring costs or the risk of implementing them in a real setting. The simulation is played over several time periods.

Students gain a comprehensive perspective of the implications of managing people across borders. The course offers students an up-to-date and thorough understanding of the essential elements of international human resources management (HRM) and its role in globalization, as well as the link between strategy, structure and HRM in multinational corporations.

The course focuses on the primary functions of human resources in relation to training and career development. It addresses organizational development activities and processes to help an organization become a learning organization. Various training types, development programs and techniques are explored. Students are provided with tools and information that will help them identify the different learning types and methods to address various learning styles successfully.

Students will acquire the essential skills for successful negotiations and communications in the context of human resource management (HRM). It discusses employment relations around the central focus of the employment relationship, taking both individual and collective aspects of this relationship into account and explores in depth the various ways in which these are managed in both unionized and non-union settings. Business processes, such as salary, budget and labor negotiations, are covered, including aspects of labor relations. Practical application of these issues is illustrated using case studies of real business experiences.

This course is designed to introduce students to the skills and tools required for optimizing people management in any organizational setting. The course framework is based on the concept that an organization’s primary asset is its employees. The course will look at the role of HR and managers in creating innovative business processes with regards to people management, in a constantly changing, dynamic business and global environment. It therefore addresses contemporary issues such as effective dissemination and communication systems, smart working practices, the talent diversity imperative, cross-cultural negotiation, conflict management and leadership development.

This workshop brings a pragmatic approach to contemporary human resources management (HRM) issues in a global perspective. It adopts eight specific areas of HRM which are currently in the spotlight. The underlying concept is to introduce the student to issues that are not covered in more traditional HRM literature and courses and to bring the subject alive with today’s focus in this essential area of the organization. Challenges and theory are discussed in detail, in the context of recent cases for each and every unit.