Competence Area General Management And Human Resource Management

Competence area General Management and Human Resource Management

Responsibilities, functions and organisation of a company; normative and strategic management; entrepreneurship and new ventures; leadership; job and organisational design; work and health; organisational development; human-technology interaction; business excellence.

Competence area Marketing, Technology and Innovation Management

Innovative product, service and process design; marketing responsibilities and methods; corporate sustainability and technology; technology transfer; innovation marketing; management of innovation projects; cooperative innovation.

Competence area Information Management and Operations Management

Design and control of the value-adding systems and processes in companies and company networks; supply chain management; logistics management; planning and control of business performance; management and processing of information; design and implementation of information systems.

Competence area Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

Methods for dealing with complex cintingencies; complex systems and organisational dynamics; operation research methods; empirical research methods; basics of project management.

Competence area Economics

Energy economics; resource economics; innovation economics and technical change; dynamic economic theory; sustainable development; global economic interdependencies; applied macroeconomics; business cycle research.

Competence area Financial Management

Managerial economics aspects of business activities; balance and profit calculation; cost calculation; profitability and liquidity.

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The language of instruction of many Master programmes is English. Some programmes offer course work in English and German. A few programmes are predominantly taught in German. Each Master programme sets its own formal language requirements. For details please check required documents.

Candidates must be in command of the necessary language skills required for the Master programme they choose and must provide the relevant certificate at the latest before begin of studies. At least level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages is required.

Candidates who must acquire more than 20 credits out of the Bachelor programmes as an additional study requirement, must hand in a German language certificate, level C1.

The following certificates (scores) meet the above mentioned criteria:

Recognised English certificates

CEF (Common European Framework Levels) IELTS

Academic * TOEFL Paper- based

(current results) * TOEFL Computer- based (current results) * TOEFL Internet- ¬based (new)

(current results) Cambridge Proficiency

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