Graduate Program in Switzerland
MBA - Human Resources Management

This course covers the key principles of 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. 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.

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. Students learn to apply this knowledge when making economic decisions in a global business context. Students should have basic knowledge of economic terminology.

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 an overview of the functions and cost of technology. Students explore how companies make the most of their investment for managing data and for communicating both internally and externally at a time when companies’ IT budgets are continually increasing.

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.

This seminar helps students better understand, analyze and identify future career paths. The knowledge and experience acquired during the MBA course inevitably changes the individual’s profile in the market. Reassessing that profile, preparing a new CV and perfecting a networking presentation are essential when planning for the future. The changing business environment requires a more innovative approach to job seeking, and this seminar offers practical support for finding employment after graduating.

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.

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.

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.