With the end of the summer semester 2021, the Master's program IHRM can for the first time congratulate graduates on their successful graduation as Master of Science (M.Sc.). The final Master's disputation took place purely virtually in the form of a ZOOM video conference due to COVID19. The presentation of the results of the thesis by the student was followed by a 15-minute defense ("defensio") of the theses in front of an examination board.
In 2019, the first cohort of students began their studies according to the new examination regulations with the new academic degree M.Sc. As part of the 2018 reaccreditation, the Human Resource Management study area had changed the degree to M.Sc., which was confirmed by the accreditation agency or its team of experts after assessment. This was associated with a curricular expansion of courses with a research and quantitative methods focus. Since 2007, the program has led to the degree Master of Arts (M.A.). In the course of the now second reaccreditation, the application for graduation to the M.Sc. degree took place in 2018.
The first successful defenses of the Master's thesis in the context of the disputation at the end of the summer semester 2021 show that the expected increase in knowledge has occurred. Height has occurred. The courses on qualitative and quantitative empirical social research enable the students, the vast majority of whom are female, to conduct sophisticated empirical studies. Based on past experience, the research approach is predominantly qualitative and based on structured expert interviews.
The Department of IHRM thus congratulates its first female graduates with the M.Sc. degree and wishes them a successful professional or academic future. The M.Sc. is usually awarded for "Master in Management degree programs". The Master IHRM is an application-oriented study program, which, however, provides the necessary scientific and methodological competence for a more theoretical-research approach to issues in human resource management and organization.
At the beginning of the new academic year 2021/22, the previous academic head of the program, Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas A. Martin, will hand over the leadership of the program to Prof. Dr. Stephan Weinert, who has been the head of the Bachelor IP program until now, in the course of the elections for the new three-year term of office. Head of the IPO bachelor program.
The outgoing wiss. TheLudwigshafen IHRM master is to our knowledge the second oldest consecutive personnel master study program in Germany. Accredited in 2004, the program started in winter semester 2007/08. With the successful change of graduation to M.Sc., the program is now consistently developing towards international scientific standards. As the scientific director of the program, I am glad and grateful. I am pleased and grateful to have been able to play a major role in shaping this development over the past three years."
The majority of the teaching staff of the Master's program IHRM consists of full-time professors, honorary professors and academic lecturers for special tasks. They are supplemented by selected lecturers plus guest speakers. Regina Hamacher, Diplom-Betriebswirtin (FH), is responsible for the management of the program.