Human Resource Management study: content of training

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Despite education crisis always sprout new, exciting-sounding courses in the faculties and institutes produced. To promote this international, is excluded German names, like what can be confusing sometimes, because what you study because actually, in the course Human Resource Management?

Human Resource Management! Working with people and also as a manager, that sounds great, but if that really is all that of course includes “Human Resource Management,” is questionable. Roughly translated means of imposing term “human resources”, which, strictly speaking, works a little sobering.

The basis of business management, the interdisciplinary study employed but with a variety of specialist areas, such as psychology, sociology, and labor laws. There is also as a student the opportunity to specialize according to their interests.

Human Resource Management student who is prepared to manage the personnel operating in one or a lead, depending on how the program interprets. Weighting is usually in the first semester.

In human resources management is primarily concerned with administration and the transfer of information. This includes wages and salaries, the selection of employees, as well as the keeping of personnel files. Here, above all, labor is needed and an affinity for data processing in order to build a comprehensive information network on. Each company is a safe constant personnel management, without which can not function particularly large companies.

Personnel management is less concerned with data than with the question of how employees can best be used, how communication can be improved in the operation and how the hierarchies should be managed. This is mainly needed social skills and psychological knowledge base. Especially in this area you can specialize in such a way that one can become self-employed and work as an external consultant for companies.

The study of “Human Resource Management” is used primarily as a Master of Science offered, a bachelor’s degree in areas of social sciences, business or business law is the condition that. As a graduate of the HRM master is so anyone who wants to specialize further in order later to work in Human Resources.

Conflict management and inter-cultural mediation in vocational training

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Cross-cultural encounters have become in the globalized world of everyday life. But not always succeed, to make this conflict. Often there is misunderstanding and conflict, when people come together from different cultural backgrounds. The sole responsibility or guilt “in such inter-cultural conflicts, no one – there are just two” world views “that meet. Here a conflict is required that goes beyond the approaches that are used within their own culture, out. At the same time should not be any conflict that occurs between people of different cultural backgrounds, more cultural “, that is, only be attributed to this fact.

Intercultural Mediation considered as a structured process of conflict management both: Both the personal, individual level and the cultural, may have contributed to the emergence of the conflict.
The intercultural mediator or the mediator may, by constructive intercultural conflict resolution from the seemingly hopeless situation is a win-win situation created, so that both parties to the conflict as an opportunity for effective changes in the relationship formation can detect the conflict. He looks out of the neutral position and both parties can work out solutions in the conversation. As a mediator in inter-cultural conflict are part of the mediator special intercultural skills and culture-specific knowledge required.

Intercultural Mediation is therefore a topical issue in continuing education. IKUD ® therefore offers seminars, 18-19th November 2010 the seminar “Intercultural Mediation – An Introduction”on. In this introductory seminar, mediation services are the basic knowledge to the field of “Intercultural mediated. Under the practical approach of IKUD ® seminars , participants learn not only the theoretical background and models (5 phases of mediation, conflict escalation, etc.) know, but do in role-playing exercises and experiences on the practical level.

The participants gain an overview of the subject and acquire basic skills and intercultural skills for the field of work mediation. Qualifications in this field for every trainer and coach, but also more generally in human resources and in organizations, is essential. In the social professions takes the importance of specialists in intercultural conflict resolution as well as to universities or companies that operate globally. In this respect, there are many options for the use of such qualified employees. On the employee level, this means additional qualification to increase the attractiveness of the labor market.

Seminar on intercultural communication

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For meetings, conferences, presentations and meetings meet in the globalized world of work people together from many different nations and cultures. In such situations, professional cross-cultural encounters have different patterns of perception and interpretation of the parties to be considered. Even a carefully prepared presentation can be left without success, or even counterproductive when basic things such as the color scheme of PowerPoint slides or the use of humor, are not thought of in terms of cultural influences.

is therefore of 14-15th October 2010 again held the seminar “International Showcase” by IKUD ® seminars. The focus of the training is on intercultural competence in negotiation and work situations, where you forward / communicates with a plenum. The placement of the content is practical and flanked by short theoretical inputs, providing a diverse variety of methods, which offers the participants opportunities to learn theoretical concepts, reflect and put into practice.

Participants will, for example, the culture-specific expectations of listeners and non-verbal elements such as body language, gestures and facial expressions.
Visualization and their “traps” in multinational audience – including use of symbols – are treated the same as the verbal communication level at which the humor is based. Also scheduling a program point of the seminar will be among the organizational aspects, which are sometimes even before the actual presentation.

The content covers a range of everyday work relevant to international issues. The framework provides an introduction to the fundamentals of intercultural communication and awareness of their own culture as the basis for a cross-cultural awareness.

The participants in the seminar “International Showcase” are themselves actively in the global work everyday situations in role relive and analyze the potential for conflict intercultural learning. In the future, this facilitates the preparation and execution of presentations and lectures to an international audience. The style of communication can be adapted and the representation are optimized.

Cross-cultural training is key to success

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Russia is Germany’s main trading partner. But many business initiatives in Russia fail from a lack of mutual understanding. Thus, German managers often shake his head in view of them as irrationally perceived Russian market. Accordingly, they overlook the fact that a recognition result of the backgrounds for “typical Russian” behavior to optimal cooperation. A cross-cultural training helps to understand the Russians and the tendencies of their thinking. It prepares employees and managers of German companies in the business stays in Russia and provides the basis for successful cooperation with Russian guests and business partners.

Knowledge of regional studies, the largest country in the world and information on business etiquette essential “hard facts” are. Who wants to be successful in Russia, but also needs the necessary “soft skill” intercultural competence in order to assess situations appropriately and consistently be able to deal.

IKUD ® therefore offers seminars in July 2010 a “Cultural Awareness Training in Russia”, is placed in which the transmission of knowledge about the diverse culture and the social and historical and religious peculiarities of the Russian nation, the basis for a more differentiated perception. Cultural awareness, however, is also an active process: Through role playing, simulations, group work and discussions will be learned from the experience level. Using a guided reflection of these active elements of the training, participants may ultimately develop intercultural competence.

Who can share their own cultural background in relation with the Russian foreign culture, has the chance to make meetings on a new level: Instead of incomprehension and irritation occurs successful communication. In a business context, this simply means an increased effectiveness in negotiations, contracts and in everyday work process. At the same time it is the Germans but also possible on a personal level, to gain access to the Russian culture and people – investing in a cross-cultural training is worth it.