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Master's degree programme Human Resource Management and Labour Law
The Master's degree programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Law is ideal for active or prospective professionals in HR positions at companies and non-profit organisations. Whether you work in recruiting, personnel development, HR administration or as an HR generalist, or aspire to this career - this degree programme offers you solid business management expertise in human resources with an in-depth focus on employment law, making you highly attractive for the HR sector.
On the Human Resource degree programme, you will study strategic HR management, HR development, recruiting, HR process and data management, compensation management and workplace design at Master's level in the core modules. As part of the latest degree programme reform, numerous new HR-relevant areas such as diversity management, employee protection, occupational health management, change management and employer branding have also been added. In the area of practical skills, you will demonstrate and train how to conduct job interviews and annual appraisals, negotiate, use assessment procedures, conduct interviews in the context of personnel management, international and intercultural business behaviour, conduct job interviews in English and German, and give talks and presentations in virtual and real environments.
In labour law, you will deal with individual and collective labour law and in the third semester you will have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of international HR law (secondment management, tax aspects of secondments, ...) and related legal issues such as employment of disabled persons, employee data protection, industrial property rights and criminal law aspects in HR. As an alternative to the legal specialisation, you can choose the specialisation in HR development and labour markets, in which you will implement in-company training measures and deal with the assessment and development of labour markets.
The language of the programme is German. However, there are some English-language modules in the third semester, during which you will also get to know international incoming students. In the fourth semester, we will broaden your horizons with an excursion that will give you an insight into HR management across national borders. The current focus is on the Baltic States and the neighbouring countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, the last semester is primarily dedicated to your Master's thesis, during which we support you in the form of very well-organised Master classes.
70% of the lecturers on the Master's programme come from practice and 30% from academia.
If you are interested in studying HR and labour law, you will ideally have already gained experience in an HR department. This may have been several years or may have been gained quite recently in an internship. Newcomers from related fields such as internal communication, marketing or project management have also been able to gain a foothold in the industry with this degree programme. They usually switch to HR jobs during their studies.
Anyone who first thinks of a Human Resource Management degree programme in Vienna will be surprised at what a degree programme at our campus in Eisenstadt has to offer. The degree programme is part-time. The ideal number of hours for your professional activity is 30 hours per week for experienced professionals and 20-25 hours for newcomers. If you want to work full-time alongside your studies, we definitely recommend that you have previous experience of part-time study. The approximately 40 attendance weekends during the two-year programme take place on Fridays from 2 p.m. and Saturdays all day. For your orientation, you can take a look at the attendance dates under organisational form on this website. In addition, there are on average two online courses during the week from 17:45.
In general, the time structure of the degree programme is designed in such a way that you hardly have to take any holiday or compensatory time off for the attendance or online phases. Nevertheless, you should give this study project the space it deserves in your life.
If you are interested in the Master's degree programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Law and would like to integrate this challenging study programme into your everyday life, please send in your application by 31 May. For an earlier admission decision, please apply by 31 March. We issue the first admissions at the beginning of April.
You can also take the opportunity to take part in one of the online counselling sessions listed below.
"A part-time, practical and free Master's programme for active and prospective HR professionals!"
Silvia Ettl-Huber, Programme Director
Master's degree programme - 4 semesters
Master of Arts in Business - MA
Part-time (over the entire duration of the programme, approx. 40 attendance weekends every two weeks on site in Eisenstadt: Friday from 2 p.m., Saturday all day; in addition, on average 2 online courses on weekdays from 5.45 p.m.)
approx. 50
7000 Eisenstadt, Campus 1
German (required language level C1)/English (required language level min. B2)
None
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The University of Applied Sciences Master's degree programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Law is open to persons who have completed at least three years of study at a recognised domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution and have acquired at least 180 ECTS points.
Applicants must also provide evidence of a minimum of 20 ECTS in the field of economics and/or law.
This basic competence must have been acquired at university level, but not necessarily from a completed degree programme.
The admission requirements must be proven by the end of October after the start of the programme at the latest. If this is not possible (e.g. Bachelor's examination not passed), the degree programme must be terminated again.
Approximately 45 applicants are admitted to the Master's programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Law every year.
Application deadline: 31 May (for your better planning, a first part of the study places will already be allocated from 31 March).
Applications for the Master's degree programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Law that are received by the deadline will be considered in the admission procedure for the coming academic year. Registration takes place via the online registration.
The applicants will be assessed after the admission interview, ranked and informed about the admission. Applicants without a firm acceptance will be placed on a waiting list and will be moved up if applicants who have been accepted drop out. Applications that are submitted late can only be considered if there are free places.
After the binding allocation of a place, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland collects a deposit of € 350 from students to secure their place. This deposit is refunded to active students after the end of the first semester. If an applicant does not fulfil the admission requirements before the start of the programme (e.g. did not pass the resit of the school-leaving examination, did not pass the additional qualification examination, etc.), the deposit is also refunded. In all other cases, the deposit is forfeited.
Well, firstly, it is the composition of the degree programme from the HR specialist skills, the labour law fields, the HR communication and management skills and the personality-building inputs. This leads to a degree programme that is constantly inspiring. On the one hand through self-knowledge, on the other through professional "aha" experiences.
Secondly, our time structure and our high proportion of online study are unique. The opportunity to work or study alongside your studies accelerates the constant transfer of theory and practice. This turns "practice" into "best practice"!
Thirdly, the lecturers make this programme special. A mixture of practitioners and university professors. In the Recruitment module, for example, you will work with Agnes Koller from Best Recruiters or the long-standing Trenkwalder International AG board member and Head of HR Heinz Herczeg, as well as WU professor Wolfgang Elsik. You will learn about compensation management from Karl Lang (Senior HR Director at Siemens and author of HR Management 4.0). In the legal subjects, you will meet experienced HR law experts such as lawyer Clemens Egermann and Thomas Dullinger. You will also see the inside of a labour court with them. Sabine Steidl (former International Director of Human Resource and Organisation Development at SOS Children's Villages International), coaching expert Doris Perg and speech coach and soprano Brigitte Pinter will inspire you in the communication subjects. We regularly bring current topics into the programme through guest lectures: most recently by Pieter Kruger, who comes from South Africa to motivate you as well as Formula 1 teams. We offer discounts for specialised events in cooperation with the HR Inside Summit.
The fourth characteristic is the focus on the international connectivity of our students. International input is provided by an international module in the third semester and, last but not least, an international excursion to the digital Baltic States or to our Burgenland neighbourhood (Sopron, Bratislava, Brno).
Our fifth speciality and at the same time our greatest treasure: our students. A student from the current year once said: "In the Bachelor's programme, you had to be afraid if you were in a group with people who were perhaps not so motivated to get involved. In the Master's programme, I haven't yet experienced such fellow students. On the contrary, working with every new colleague is enriching!" Students on the Master's degree programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Law are generally ambitious and at the same time team-oriented, socially minded and yet commercially minded, business partners and at the same time people of the heart.
We will be happy to advise you and help you choose the appropriate degree programme. Be well informed to make the right decision.
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