BA (Hons) in Business (HR Management) Munich

Nurture talent & inspire teams

Unlock your potential in human resource management with the BA (Hons) in Business (HR Management) degree. This program offers a strong foundation in business principles alongside specialized HR knowledge, highlighting how effective people management is vital for achieving organizational goals. You'll be strongly equipped for diverse HR roles, including HR management, industrial relations, training and organizational development.

Learn how to:

  • Analyze business data & trends

  • Manage employee relations & legal compliance

  • Foster organizational behavior & culture

  • Develop strategic management & leadership abilities

  • Implement innovative human resource practices

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Program structure

This is a full-time, three-year, six-semester EQF level 6/NFQ level 8 honors program (180 ECTS).

In the first year of this honors degree course, you will be given a thorough grounding with core courses in management, organization, marketing, finance, IT and economics as they relate to business. In the second and third years, you will build on this knowledge to gain an advanced understanding of these key areas, as well as acquire specific knowledge and skills relating to human resource management in specialist courses in this pathway. Your studies culminate in a final year capstone research project.  

Year 1
Semester 1


The following courses are 10 ECTS credits over two semesters:

Maths & Stats for Business

This course introduces the student to concepts and techniques within mathematics and statistics that are relevant in the modern business environment. Students will study different data collection methods and sampling techniques, along with appropriate methods for summarizing and presenting data. Students will apply various theories and concepts of research techniques and demonstrate how mathematical models can be applied to research activities. The course will enable students to cultivate an approach and methodology for solving contemporary business problems using appropriate mathematical and statistical tools.

Business Context & Organization

This course introduces students to analysis of the business environment. The course provides students with an appreciation of the external and internal business environment. The course introduces environmental analysis tools, examines the contribution of the various functional areas, and introduces the concepts of organizational change, ethics, and entrepreneurship. Finally, the course also exposes students to an introductory review of business law and regulation.

Marketing Essentials

This course introduces the student to marketing concepts and theories that provide a comprehensive foundation within the marketing subject area. Lectures will be the primary method of delivery. Students are supported by tutorials to facilitate further discussion of material and guidance for self‐directed learning. Guest lecturers will be invited to offer seminars to develop the student’s understanding of current practices in marketing led organizations.

IT Essentials

This course enables students to focus on the essential concepts of computing and related technologies. Students focus upon the fundamental issues surrounding the world of computing through a balance between theory and applied learning. Students will build practical skills in database, spreadsheets, and web technologies. They will also contextualize the role that computer technologies have played in facilitating the evolution and development of business systems, and the legal and ethical issues that have emerged through this process.

Economic Perspectives

This course is designed to expose students to contemporary economic perspectives, for example: free market versus government interventionist policies. By applying theoretical frameworks to various industries and different economies, students will develop an in-depth view of this complex environment and an understanding of real-world developments.


This course is 5 ECTS credits. 

Foundational Academic Skills

This course provides students with essential knowledge and skills to support their success in academia. Through interactive workshops, collaborative discussions and practical case studies, students develop core competencies in academic writing, referencing, library research and critical thinking. This course also builds proficiency in presentation delivery, effective group work and for professionalism in the workplace. Real-world application ensures students can immediately apply acquired knowledge and competencies to advance their academic performance.

Semester 2


The following courses are 10 ECTS credits over two semesters:

Maths & Stats for Business

This course introduces the student to concepts and techniques within mathematics and statistics that are relevant in the modern business environment. Students will study different data collection methods and sampling techniques, along with appropriate methods for summarizing and presenting data. Students will apply various theories and concepts of research techniques and demonstrate how mathematical models can be applied to research activities. The course will enable students to cultivate an approach and methodology for solving contemporary business problems using appropriate mathematical and statistical tools.

Business Context & Organization

This course introduces students to analysis of the business environment. The course provides students with an appreciation of the external and internal business environment. The course introduces environmental analysis tools, examines the contribution of the various functional areas, and introduces the concepts of organizational change, ethics, and entrepreneurship. Finally, the course also exposes students to an introductory review of business law and regulation.

IT Essentials

This course enables students to focus on the essential concepts of computing and related technologies. Students focus upon the fundamental issues surrounding the world of computing through a balance between theory and applied learning. Students will build practical skills in database, spreadsheets, and web technologies. They will also contextualize the role that computer technologies have played in facilitating the evolution and development of business systems, and the legal and ethical issues that have emerged through this process.

Economic Perspectives

This course is designed to expose students to contemporary economic perspectives, for example: free market versus government interventionist policies. By applying theoretical frameworks to various industries and different economies, students will develop an in-depth view of this complex environment and an understanding of real-world developments.

Marketing Essentials

This course introduces the student to marketing concepts and theories that provide a comprehensive foundation within the marketing subject area. Lectures will be the primary method of delivery. Students are supported by tutorials to facilitate further discussion of material and guidance for self‐directed learning. Guest lecturers will be invited to offer seminars to develop the student’s understanding of current practices in marketing led organizations.


This course is 5 ECTS credits. 

Introduction to Business Finance

This course will introduce students to the principles, concepts and techniques required to understand the core components of business finance and internal/external financial analysis. Students will develop a knowledge and understanding of finance in the key areas of financial reporting, budgeting, variance analysis, performance evaluation and the role of various stakeholders.

Year 2
Semester 3


The following courses are 10 ECTS credits over two semesters:

Management

This course introduces the student to the nature of management and advocates the importance of good managerial practice in contemporary organizations. The course is designed to explain the integrative nature of managerial functions. The course identifies how their environment affects organizations and how organizations in turn create change, through innovation and adapt to their local and global environments. Students will be encouraged to understand how management has evolved and continues to be influenced by institutional and cultural factors. The course places an increased emphasis on corporate governance, ethics, data mining for performance management, entrepreneurship, innovation, change management and operations and supply chain management.

Financial Management

This course introduces students to financial management principles. The course provides students with the knowledge and understanding to apply the basic principles, concepts, and techniques of financial management in commercial situations.

Digital Business Solutions

This course equips students with expertise in digital transformation and enterprise information systems in the modern global business environment. Students examine how organizations use systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) to innovate and deliver value to web-based enterprises. The course also explores new trends and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain and 5G connectivity, as well as key issues such as cybersecurity and sustainability. On completion, students will have acquired the skills to produce contemporary digital approaches and techniques to assist in the development of business solutions.

Employee Relations & the Law

This course aims to provide an overall knowledge and insight into the three main areas of labor law (trade union law, industrial relations law, and employment law) and the corresponding legislation and judicial decisions that underpin them. The student will understand and appreciate key areas of importance in the everyday application of labor law in the workplace. The student will gain a strong foundation in labor law so as to assist them in the crucial business of maintaining full legal compliance in the Irish workplace.

Organizational Behavior for Managers

The course gives the student an insight into the various influences affecting peoples’ behavior and satisfaction within organizations, and the workplace. It helps students explore and appreciate the relationship between those influences and the bottom-line dependent variables or metrics in which organizations are interested. The course works through three categories of influencing variables, Individual, Group and contextual / organizational factors. The course will enable the student to understand how we can manage or manipulate the influencing factors or at least understand them. Students will appreciate individual difference and diversity, and therefore increase their empathy toward people, and improve their people management skills.


This course is 5 ECTS credits. 

Business Ethics & Research Practice

The course will provide the environment to assist the student to apply ethical principles in a given situation whether in business practice or in research. The importance of leadership and teamwork in relation to ethical practices will be appraised. Learners will be encouraged to scrutinize both Irish and international government legislations, policies, and company responsibilities in relation to ensuring ethical business and research practices. The course will be delivered using a combination of teaching and learning strategies including lectures, case studies, published research papers, and self-directed learning. In addition, the course will provide workshops enabling students to debate and apply their knowledge to practical business situations.

Semester 4


The following courses are 10 ECTS credits over two semesters:

Management

This course introduces the student to the nature of management and advocates the importance of good managerial practice in contemporary organizations. The course is designed to explain the integrative nature of managerial functions. The course identifies how their environment affects organizations and how organizations in turn create change, through innovation and adapt to their local and global environments. Students will be encouraged to understand how management has evolved and continues to be influenced by institutional and cultural factors. The course places an increased emphasis on corporate governance, ethics, data mining for performance management, entrepreneurship, innovation, change management and operations and supply chain management.

Financial Management

This course introduces students to financial management principles. The course provides students with the knowledge and understanding to apply the basic principles, concepts, and techniques of financial management in commercial situations.

Digital Business Solutions

This course equips students with expertise in digital transformation and enterprise information systems in the modern global business environment. Students examine how organizations use systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) to innovate and deliver value to web-based enterprises. The course also explores new trends and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain and 5G connectivity, as well as key issues such as cybersecurity and sustainability. On completion, students will have acquired the skills to produce contemporary digital approaches and techniques to assist in the development of business solutions.

Employee Relations & the Law

This course aims to provide an overall knowledge and insight into the three main areas of labor law (trade union law, industrial relations law, and employment law) and the corresponding legislation and judicial decisions that underpin them. The student will understand and appreciate key areas of importance in the everyday application of labor law in the workplace. The student will gain a strong foundation in labor law so as to assist them in the crucial business of maintaining full legal compliance in the Irish workplace.

Organizational Behavior for Managers

The course gives the student an insight into the various influences affecting peoples’ behavior and satisfaction within organizations, and the workplace. It helps students explore and appreciate the relationship between those influences and the bottom-line dependent variables or metrics in which organizations are interested. The course works through three categories of influencing variables, Individual, Group and contextual / organizational factors. The course will enable the student to understand how we can manage or manipulate the influencing factors or at least understand them. Students will appreciate individual difference and diversity, and therefore increase their empathy toward people, and improve their people management skills.


This course is 5 ECTS credits. 

International Economics

This course provides students with a critical understanding of global economic developments and the trends shaping international markets. Students examine the impact of globalization, pandemics, taxation rules and geopolitics on international economies through real-world case studies and theoretical frameworks. The course equips students with analytical tools to evaluate economic trends, policy responses and the role and impact of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the EU and the International Monetary Fund. Students also explore sustainability and the green economy, developing skills for informed decision-making within a global context.

Year 3
Semester 5


The following courses are 10 ECTS credits over two semesters:

Strategic Management

This course provides students with the knowledge, skills, concepts, and tools necessary to understand, and respond to, the increasingly complex, global, volatile, and dynamic context in which organizational strategy formulation and development take place today. This course will conduct a detailed study of the nature of strategy content, and of strategic processes, in a variety or organizational/industry settings designed to equip students for further study at post‐graduate level and for future career development.

Global Business

This course provides an integrated framework whereby global business-relevant trends/issues may be identified and analyzed, their strategic implications may be understood, and informed business responses may be deployed.

Human Resource Management

The course provides students with a comprehensive and modern view of talent planning, management, and resourcing. Students will view how Human Resource (HR) specialists demonstrably add value in pursuit of competitive advantage and organizational sustainability. Among other contemporary issues, like HR metrics and data analytics, students will be introduced to the complexity surrounding the reconfiguration of the HR role, the impact of environmental factors on HR performance, the rise of the HR strategic business partner, the potential of e-enabled HR and HR outsourcing opportunities. The course also includes an assessment of the traditional HR activities, recruitment and selection, training and development and associated sophisticated policies and practices.

Human Resource Development

The course provides students an opportunity to focus on the HRD (Human Resources Development) aspect of Human Resources Management; on the HRD function within organizations, and the theory of adult learning processes. Students will apply these through analyzing needs and designing and implementing learning interventions in support of Organizational strategy. The course also gives students an indication of the real world of HRD by introducing them to the politics and dynamics of the modern HRD function. HRM stream students need to focus on the learning function within organizations as a major HRM subset and responsibility. As the learning function becomes more and more decentralized, and as training and development responsibility is more and more within the remit of line managers, students in other streams, need as potential managers to be able to understand the learning function, assess different methods and interventions, and design simple interventions.

Contemporary Performance Management

This course helps students to develop and implement innovative performance management strategies to improve talent management, employee engagement and business results. It presents a holistic approach to performance management detailing how to build a culture of ongoing feedback and coaching and provides case studies of how this approach to building performance has been effective in organizations. Filled with practical advice, including how to deal with underperformers, it enables organizations to remove overly bureaucratic and ineffective systems based on top-down judgments and ratings, and demonstrates how to get line managers’ support for the process focusing on actionable feedback and growth.

Capstone Project

This course provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to work independently, or in a group setting, on a well-defined research question in an organized and critical manner. The course will enable students to develop their research and analytical skills. The capstone module, business project synergizes previous learning and ensures graduate attributes such as independent learning, analytical and problem-solving skills as well as research and development are captured by the student and necessitates time management and planning. Students will be provided with appropriate research topics in the specific domain they choose to focus upon. Students will select their research question, determine the appropriate research approach, summarize the relevant literature, apply specific research methodologies, collect secondary data, critically appraise their findings, and construct appropriate recommendations.

Semester 6


The following courses are 10 ECTS credits over two semesters:

Strategic Management

This course provides students with the knowledge, skills, concepts, and tools necessary to understand, and respond to, the increasingly complex, global, volatile, and dynamic context in which organizational strategy formulation and development take place today. This course will conduct a detailed study of the nature of strategy content, and of strategic processes, in a variety or organizational/industry settings designed to equip students for further study at post‐graduate level and for future career development.

Global Business

This course provides an integrated framework whereby global business-relevant trends/issues may be identified and analyzed, their strategic implications may be understood, and informed business responses may be deployed.

Human Resource Management

The course provides students with a comprehensive and modern view of talent planning, management, and resourcing. Students will view how Human Resource (HR) specialists demonstrably add value in pursuit of competitive advantage and organizational sustainability. Among other contemporary issues, like HR metrics and data analytics, students will be introduced to the complexity surrounding the reconfiguration of the HR role, the impact of environmental factors on HR performance, the rise of the HR strategic business partner, the potential of e-enabled HR and HR outsourcing opportunities. The course also includes an assessment of the traditional HR activities, recruitment and selection, training and development and associated sophisticated policies and practices.

Human Resource Development

The course provides students an opportunity to focus on the HRD (Human Resources Development) aspect of Human Resources Management; on the HRD function within organizations, and the theory of adult learning processes. Students will apply these through analyzing needs and designing and implementing learning interventions in support of Organizational strategy. The course also gives students an indication of the real world of HRD by introducing them to the politics and dynamics of the modern HRD function. HRM stream students need to focus on the learning function within organizations as a major HRM subset and responsibility. As the learning function becomes more and more decentralized, and as training and development responsibility is more and more within the remit of line managers, students in other streams, need as potential managers to be able to understand the learning function, assess different methods and interventions, and design simple interventions.

Contemporary Performance Management

This course helps students to develop and implement innovative performance management strategies to improve talent management, employee engagement and business results. It presents a holistic approach to performance management detailing how to build a culture of ongoing feedback and coaching and provides case studies of how this approach to building performance has been effective in organizations. Filled with practical advice, including how to deal with underperformers, it enables organizations to remove overly bureaucratic and ineffective systems based on top-down judgments and ratings, and demonstrates how to get line managers’ support for the process focusing on actionable feedback and growth.

Capstone Project

This course provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to work independently, or in a group setting, on a well-defined research question in an organized and critical manner. The course will enable students to develop their research and analytical skills. The capstone module, business project synergizes previous learning and ensures graduate attributes such as independent learning, analytical and problem-solving skills as well as research and development are captured by the student and necessitates time management and planning. Students will be provided with appropriate research topics in the specific domain they choose to focus upon. Students will select their research question, determine the appropriate research approach, summarize the relevant literature, apply specific research methodologies, collect secondary data, critically appraise their findings, and construct appropriate recommendations.

Learning outcomes

The BA (Hons) in Business (Human Resource Management) prepares students for future careers in global business ventures and large international organizations.

In addition, after graduating, students will competently:

  • Understand the alignment of human resource strategies as a key enabler of organizational strategy.
  • Assess the competences required in order to facilitate maximum value contribution from human resources.
  • Assess knowledge and information, tools, and techniques in a critical way to confidently adapt to changing business environments.
  • Evaluate data and information derived through research to ensure relevant new knowledge is continually incorporated to enhance business planning and decision making.
  • Demonstrate interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiation, persuasion, and presentation in individual and group situations.
  • Display an in‐depth understanding of the inter‐relationships between business functions and business processes and their impact on product and service provision.
  • Apply diagnostic and creative skills in the solution of business problems showing an interdisciplinary approach to resolution.
  • Demonstrate a capacity to contribute to business development and enhanced strategic decision-making.

 

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Degree awarded

On successful completion of this program, you will earn:

  • A state-recognized Dublin Business School BA (Hons) in Business degree awarded by Quality & Qualifications Ireland (QQI).


Awarding Body
Quality and Qualifications, Ireland (QQI) is the Irish State body responsible for the Quality Assurance of all education and training services in Ireland. QQI sets quality assurance criteria for the sector and regulates and approves programmes of study. For more information about QQI, click here.

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Assists with change initiatives, tracks progress, & gathers feedback to support organizational transformation efforts.

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Analyzes business data, supports process improvements, & prepares reports to inform operational or strategic decisions.

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Admission requirements

These are the admission requirements for this BA (Hons) program. If you're not sure if you meet our requirements, contact us for a personalized assessment.Our team is here to help!

Academic requirements:

  • One certified copy of high school diploma and transcripts; or equivalent


Proof of English level:

  • TOEFL score 80/4 (as of Jan 2026) (internet-based), 213 (computer-based); IELTS 6.0; B2+ CEFR; native English speaker or equivalent. 

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Our start dates are: October & February.

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Fees

The tuition fees for this bachelor’s program are:
€7,050 per semester
€200 application fee (non-refundable, paid with application)

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