Specialisation: Innovation Lab

Brief description

The specific teaching contents are determined by current questions related to the connection between strategic HR Management and innovation:

  • Innovation and innovation competence of organisations: forms, framework conditions, influencing factors
  • Developments and trends in innovation management
  • Connections between HR Management and innovations: design of organisational framework conditions to foster innovations
  • Employee motivation, engagement & innovation
  • Innovation-fostering methods in HR Management
  • Creative techniques
  • Techniques for self- and group reflection

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Dawson, P., Andriopoulos, C. (eds.) (2017) Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation. London: Sage
Hannele Seeck & Marjo-Riitta Diehl (2017) A literature review on HRM and innovation – taking stock and future directions, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28:6, 913-944.
Vijay Kumar (2013) 101 Design Methods – A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey
Empfohlen:
Herget, Josef (2017) Agile Methoden zur Gestaltung der Unternehmenskultur: Dynamiken der Veränderungsfähigkeit für einen Kulturwandel nutzen, Springer Verlag

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lecture, blended learning, discussion, virtual collaboration, project- and team work, self-organised learning, experimental learning, collaboration with cooperation partners, individual reflection, group reflection, peer feedback and peer assessment, presentation of results in different print and online formats (e.g. Wikis), micro-learning

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment (quality of submitted assignments, presentations of concepts, products, etc.)

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Modules Strategic and Sustainable HR Management; HRM & (Digital) HR Practices I; HRM & (Digital) HR Practices IIa & IIb; Fundamentals of Organisation, Change & Transformation; HRM and Digitalisation: Ethics, Sustainability and Societal Impact; HR Process Analysis, Redesign & Automation; Applied Change & Transformation; Scientific Methods; Project Management

Infos

Degree programme

Digital HR & angewandtes Arbeitsrecht

Cycle

Master

ECTS Credits

9.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Part-Time

Academic year

2023

Semester

3 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of the course, the students can

  • apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the degree programme in an interdisciplinary way in the course of a project
  • identify the main influencing factors of the innovation capacity of organisations and different forms of innovations; analyse the connection between innovations and HR Management
  • explain the innovation potential of methods in HR Management
  • develop HR Management concepts for innovation-fostering framework conditions in the company
  • develop or reconfigure already existing methods for this purpose or develop new ones
  • develop competences of self-organisation, virtual collaboration, learning and creative teachniques; actively use them in innovation processes
  • develop or improve products, services or processes in the area of HR Management
  • design innovation-fostering framework conditions, resources and communication forms
  • use key functions and team-based methods of HR Management to foster innovations
  • use creative techniques and open development formats for the participative development of innovations
  • plan, realise and reflect on innovation projects with classical and new approaches
  • reflect on the work on innovation projects from a subject-specific perspective, from a process perspective and from a group-dynamic perspective
  • process and present the results and insights in the form of micro-learning or different digital formats
  • deduce measures for the design of HR Management from the acquired insights and experiences

Course code

1705-21-01-BB-DE-24a