0 Introduction SOHRM 26.03.2013 f

M1: Strategy. Organization and Human

Resources Management: Introduction

HTW Berlin

Berlin, March 26, 2013

1 0_Introduction_26.03.2013_f Lecturer: Dr. Birgit Hilberger

Content

• Let‘s get to know each other

– Introduction lecturer / students

– Expectations students / lecturer

– Know how and professional experience students

• Let‘s get started

– Overview of Module 1: Content and structure

– Methology

– Literature

– Administration

– Final exam

– Rules of the game


Introduction

• Introduction lecturer

• Introduction students

– name, country of origin, personal background

– professional experience by function, industry and years


Expectations

• Students

• Why MBA&E at HTW in Berlin?

• What are your professional objectives?

• Special expectations regarding this lecture?

• …

• Lecturer

• Commitment

• Open Communication

• Fairness


Your know how and professional experience

regarding SOHRM – some questions

…

• What are the differences between a firm‘s vision and a firm‘s culture?

• Do you have working experience in local or in international companies (either from your home country

of from abroad)?

• Do you have personal experience with performance management?

• How close did you work to decision makers and managers of your company resp. have you been in

charge of such tasks? What is their daily work?

• Which management tools for corporate development do you know?

• Are you familiar with organizational models like a matrix organization?

• What are typical leadership issues? How to share those tasks between management and HR

function?

• What do you know about M&A resp. PMI and their crucial success factors?

• Why do organizations need job descriptions?

• Do you know from your personal or professional experience intercultural issues?

• How often did you present your ideas to a group of 20+ people before?

• How experienced are you in writing issue papers applying academic guidelines?

…


Module 1: Objectives

• Identifying, understanding and modelling the interdependencies between business

strategies and organizational concepts

• Becoming familiar with types, phases and tools of business strategy development as

well as its implementation

• Differentiating organizational theory approaches and adopting theoretical knowledge

into organizational structures and processes both on national and international level

• Learning the methods of organizational development and change management to

execute the match between strategy and organization

• Gaining insights in the Human Resources Department and its Value Chain from a

national and international perspective and the role of HR Management as enabler for

successful strategic and organizational changes

Source: Curriculum / module handbook HTW


Module 1: structure and content (overview)

1 Strategy

1.1 History / Schools of thought / Terminology

1.2 Types, content and impact of strategy

1.3 Phases of strategy development process

1.4 Tools for strategy development and implementation

2 Organization

2.1 History / Schools of thought / Terminology

2.2 Organizational fundamentals and models

2.3 Organizational development and implementation

2.4 Tools for organizational development and implementation

Special topic: Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) /

Post Merger Integration (PMI)

3 Human Resources Management

3.1 HR Value Chain

3.2 Role and organization of HR department

3.3 HR-Management in international business

3.4 Change Management

3.5 Intercultural Management

Issues in

corporate development

e.g.

- changing and dynamic

markets

- strategic reorientation

- reorganization

- restructuring


• Dressler, Sören (2004): Strategy, Organization and Performance

Management, Boca Raton (Universal Publishers)

• Grant, Robert M. (2013): Contemporary Strategy Analysis, 8th ed., West

Sussex (Wiley)

• Ivancevich, John M. / Konopaske, Robert / Matteson, Michael (2010):

Organizational Behavior and Management, 9th rev. ed.,New York (McGraw-

Hill)

• Salaman, Graeme / Storey, John / Billsberry, Jon (ed.) (2005): Strategic

Human Resources Management – Theory and Praxis, London (Sage)

• Segal-Horn, Susan (ed.) (2007): The Strategy Reader, Malden (Blackwell)

• Segal-Horn, Susan / Faulkner, David (ed.) (2010): Understanding Global

Strategy, Hampshire (Cengage)

Content, exhibits, figures and tables from other sources are quoted in the

lecture notes provided.

Literature


Methodology – interactive lecture

• Presentation by lecturer – ask questions if you don‘t understand or you want to know more

• Discussion – give your comments and thoughts about the topics

• Brainstorming – contribute actively

• Company research / market analyses – talk about real business life

• Case study (group work in class) – be a teamplayer

• Issue paper / case study (homework / exam) – develop your know how

• Presentation to the class and leading the discussion – show your performance


Administration (1/2)

• classes

Tuesday, 5 HPW

09:00 - 13:00 (incl. 15 min. break);

or

Tuesday, 4 HPW

09:15 - 12:30 (incl. 15 min. break)

Wednesday

6 HPW: 09:15 - 12:30 (incl. 15 min. break), 13:00 - 14:30

No. Week 2013 Date HPW Room Content (additional to lecture)

1 13 25.-31.03. Tuesday 26.03. 4

Preparation and presentation of Homework

(exam)

2 15 08.-14.04. Tuesday 09.04. 5

3 15 08.-14.04. Wednesday 10.04. 6

4 16 15.-21.04. Tuesday 16.04. 5

5 16 15.-21.04. Wednesday 17.04. 6

6 17 22.-28.04. Tuesday 23.04. 5

7 17 22.-28.04. Wednesday 24.04. 6

8 18 29.04.-05.05. Tuesday 30.04. 5

9 19 06.-12.05. Tuesday 07.05. 4

10 19 06.-12.05. Wednesday 08.05. 6 Start Group work Case studies (exam)

11 24 10.-16.06. Wednesday 12.06. 6 Submission Case Studies (exam) 13.06.

12 25 17.-23.06. Tuesday 18.06. 4 Presentation Case Studies (exam)

13 25 17.-23.06. Wednesday 19.06. 6

28 08.-14.07. Tuesday 02.07. 0 Written test, 1. term

(final exam) 10:00 - 11:00 0

Total 68


Administration (2/2)

• Please check the rooms for the classes in advance

• Contact: [email protected] or via Program Office

• No office hours

• https://moodle2.htw-berlin.de

– Lecture notes and other documents / files will be provided on moodle

– Final version of lecture notes end _f

– Login password will be provided in class

0_Introduction_26.03.2013_f Lecturer: Dr. Birgit Hilberger 11

mailto:[email protected]



https://moodle2.htw-berlin.de/



Final exam (overview) (1/8)

1. Class participation and contribution; objective: application of theory

to business practice

2. Homework (issue paper) incl. presentation (March – May 2013)

preparation time: two weeks; objective: training of academic

principles of work, communication and presentation skills. All topics

covered by issue papers provided are relevant for all students for

the final exam

3. Case study: written report, presentation incl. leading discussion

(preparation time: May 8 – June 13, 2013); objective: working on

an in-depth study and training of advanced presentation skills

(group work); presentation date: June 18, 2013

4. Written test (final exam): multiple choice and open questions (Juli

2, 2013); objective: ensuring knowledge base and understanding of

all main principles of the class

Grade 1,0 – 5,0

5 %

Grade 1,0 – 5,0

20%

Grade 1,0 – 4,0

40%

(Grade 5,0

=> entire course failed)

Grade 1,0 – 4,0

35%

(Grade 5,0

=> entire course failed)

Elements

% grade


Final exam (details) (2/8)

1. Class participation and contribution - 5% -

• Every student is asked to contribute actively in each class

• Only by giving comments and discussing with students and lecturers

business-related communication can be trained



2. Homework (Issue paper and presentation) - 20% -

• Homework consists of written report and presentation (10 minutes in class)

• Each student chooses his/her topic for the issue paper from a list provided

• Detailed issue paper design and questions (e. g. perspective of analysis) will be

provided in class during semester; the presentation has to be given two weeks later

(see specific due date)

• Each student works on a different topic; in case of same topic there will be different

aspects to be analyzed (e. g. industries, companies); homework and presentation has

to be prepared separately by each student

• Written report has to be submitted on specific due date until 4 pm via e-mail from the

personal email account of the student to the lecturer ([email protected])

• If the report is not submitted in time, homework will be evaluated with mark 5,0

• If the student is not around for the presentation, presentation gets the mark 5,0

• Make sure that your personal schedule makes your homework possible

• Both in written report and in the presentation the appropriate and stringent use of

principles for academic work have to be applied (correct and complete quoting of

sources used etc.)

• Content of all issue papers provided is relevant for all students for final exam 14 0_Introduction_26.03.2013_f Lecturer: Dr. Birgit Hilberger


2. Homework (issue paper and presentation ) – structure

• Written report ( approx. 6-8 pages (word.doc))

– Understanding of the situation and objective

– Analysis and insights

– Concept / Recommendations and solutions

– Summary and next steps

• Presentation incl. discussion ( 4-6 slides (powerpoint.ppt))

– Presentation: 10 minutes

– Structure see above, but adjusted to presentation style (no copy and paste of .doc in .ppt)

• Please submit documents as pdf files; in addition make sure the lecturer receives latest version of presentation for Moodle



3. Case study (40%)

• Introduction (preparatory questions) and case studies will be provided in class on May,

8

• A group of approx. 5-7 students will work together on the same case

• Case study consists of written report, presentation and leading of the discussion in

class (total: 30 minutes)

• Written report has to be submitted until June 13, at 4 pm via e-mail from the personal

email-account of one group member (to be named in advance) to the lecturer

([email protected])

• If the report is not submitted in time, the entire course failed for all members of the

respective group

• Presentations will be given June, 18; discussion has to be managed by the presenting

student(s); lecturer is member of the audience

• Both in the written report and in the presentation the appropriate and stringent use of

principles for academic work have to be applied (correct and complete quoting of

sources used etc.)



3. Case study – structure

• Written report

– approx. 15-20 pages (word .doc)

– Summary of key results

– Understanding of the situation and objective

– Analysis and insights

– Concept (if required)

– Recommendations and solutions

– Summary and next steps

– Guiding questions for leading the discussion in class

• Presentation incl. leading of discussion

– approx. 10-15 slides (powerpoint .ppt)

– structure see above, but adjusted to presentation style (no copy and

paste of .doc in .ppt)



Grading scheme for

presentation and content

- case study

presentation: 50%,

content: 50%

- homework

presentation: 30%,

content: 70%

Subject Weight Case study Weight Homework

A Presentation (total) 50% 30%

A.1 Slides 40% 40%

Legible 33% 33%

Graphics / visualization 33% 33%

Typos 33% 33%

A.2 Oral presentation 40% 40%

Volume 33% 33%

Pace & Rythm 33% 33%

Position / gestures 33% 33%

A.3 Facilitation 20% 20%

Questions asked 33% 33%

Responses given 33% 33%

Interaction 33% 33%

B Content 50% 70%

Quality of research 25% 25%

Structure / "red thread" 25% 25%

Quality of solution 25% 25%

Independence 25% 25%

Total 100% 100%



4. Written test (35%)

• This written test is on July 2, 2013, 10 – 11 am and will take 60 minutes

• The test covers all topics of the course and consists of

questions/statements (correct/not correct) (25%) and open questions

(75%)


Rules of the game

• Be on-time, we don‘t have much of it; also please don‘t leave early (if you can‘t avoid

please inform lecturer in advance)

• Switch off handphones and notebooks during class

• Classroom language is english only

• You may have your drink and a little snack in class; please have your lunch outside

• Be fair if we tackle issues some of you might have heart of already before

• Ask questions if you don‘t understand or if you want to know more

• Communication platform for documents, case studies, reports etc. is Moodle2 only

(exceptions will be announced separately) ; make sure you have access and know

how required


… and last but not least

Enjoy this lecture!


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