1b People Operations
Brief description
Selected subject areas of People Operations, in particular from the following, but also conceivable across the board:
- Administration
- Payroll Accounting
- People Reporting & Analytics
- Labor and Social Law
- Payroll accounting/preparation for a payroll audit
- Digitalization in people operations (HRIS etc.)
- Strategic workforce planning (predictive analytics)
- Applied labour and social law
Mode of delivery
face to face
Type
compulsory
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
depending on the in-depth focus, e.g.: von Kettler, B. (ed.) (2016). Strategische Personalplanung: Personalstruktur und Personalbedarf der Zukunft – ein PraxishandbuchSchäffer-Poeschel
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Alternating face-to-face and online phases in the form of inverted classrooms (self-study phases, including e-learning in individual or group work), discussions of open questions in plenary, online quizzes for individual learning success control or for repetition in face-to-face phases, small group work (e.g. elaboration of individual course content and presentations in plenary). Depending on the specialization, suitable methods, e.g. computer simulations, online and small group exercises or case work in small groups, written and oral tasks as in the payroll accounting examination.
Assessment methods and criteria
Final written examination, 50% (closed book, open questions & MC questions).
Final examination content criteria: Degree of problem definition and problem characterization, correctness, comprehensibility and complexity of the solutions with regard to technical and methodological competence.
Formal criteria for the final exam: completeness of answers, linguistic differentiation and independence of the presentation of results.
Individual or small group work and/or exercises depending on the specialization (immanent performance assessment), 50 %.
Content-related criteria immanent performance: Degree of problem identification and characterization, complexity of solutions in terms of technical and methodological competence, consideration of individual contextual requirements in group work and confidence in answering final questions in presentations.
Formal criteria immanent performance: Compliance with formal requirements, linguistic differentiation and correctness, independence and creativity in the presentation of results (if presentation is part of the examination).
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Basics of People Administration, Austrian Labor Law, Basics of Payroll Accounting, Austrian and European Social Law, People Reporting & Analytics
Infos
Degree programme
People & Culture Management (Bachelor)
Cycle
Bachelor
ECTS Credits
3.00
Language of instruction
German
Curriculum
Part-Time
Academic year
2025
Semester
4 SS
Incoming
No
Learning outcome
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- explain a selected topic area of People Operations in depth and from differentiated perspectives and apply the methods contained therein and thus independently take on certain tasks within People Operations,
- comprehensively assess selected issues in the in-depth task area and transfer them to different organizational contexts,
- find new approaches and strategies for solving specific problems in the in-depth task area and question and optimize existing or known concepts, and
- independently make decisions in the in-depth task area.
Course code
1582-24-01-BB-DE-34b