With the end of the summer semester 2021, the Master's degree program IHRM can congratulate its first female graduates on their successful graduation as Master of Science (M.Sc.). The final Master's thesis defense took place purely virtually in the form of a ZOOM video conference due to COVID-19. The student's presentations of the results of the thesis were 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 under the new examination regulations with the new academic degree M.Sc. As part of the 2018 reaccreditation, the Human Resource Management department changed the degree to M.Sc., which was confirmed by the accreditation agency and its team of experts following an assessment. This was associated with a curricular expansion of courses with a focus on research and quantitative methods. Since 2007, the degree program has led to the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree. In the course of the second reaccreditation, the application for graduation as an M.Sc. was submitted in 2018.
The first successful defenses of the Master's thesis as part of the disputation at the end of the summer semester 2021 show that the expected gain in scientific knowledge has been achieved. Height has occurred. The courses on qualitative and quantitative empirical social research enable students, the vast majority of whom are female students, to conduct sophisticated empirical studies. Experience to date has shown that the research approach is predominantly qualitative and based on structured expert interviews.
The IHRM department congratulates its first female graduates on their M.Sc. and wishes them a successful professional or academic future. The M.Sc. is usually awarded for "Master's degree programs in Management". The Master's degree program IHRM is an application-oriented program, but it provides the necessary scientific and methodological competence for a more theoretical and research-based approach to issues in human resources management and organization.
At the beginning of the new academic year 2021/22, the previous Academic Director of the program, Prof. Dr. Dr. At the beginning of the new academic year 2021/22, the previous Academic Director, Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Martin, will hand over the leadership of the course to Prof. Dr. Stephan Weinert, previously Academic Director of the Bachelor IP. Head of the Bachelor IPO.
The outgoing wiss. Prof. Martin commented: "To our knowledge, the Ludwigshafen IHRM Master's is the second oldest consecutive Master's degree program in Human Resources in Germany. Accredited in 2004, the degree programs began in winter semester 2007/08. With the successful change of degree to M.Sc., the program is now consistently developing towards international scientific standards. As the wiss.Iam pleased and grateful to have been able to play a key role in shaping this development over the last three years."
The majority of the IHRM Master's degree program's education consists of full-time professors, honorary professors and academic lecturers for special tasks. They are supplemented by selected lecturers and guest speakers. The management of the degree programs is in the hands of Regina Hamacher, Diplom-Betriebswirtin (FH).