About Personnel & Change Management (m.a.) in CBS - Cologne Business School

Master`s in Personnel and Change Management: Experts for change processes

In times of globalisation, newly launched products and services are copied more and more quickly by competitors around the world and often offered at lower prices. A company’s ability to change and innovate thus becomes its most important key qualification to keep up with this accelerated progress. Personnel and change managers play a decisive role in this:

• They plan changes in internal processes and structures with
• They motivate and mobilise employees and managers for change.
• They have the expertise to implement internal change processes quickly and with little conflict.

Do you see your professional future as a personnel and change manager in a company? Our German-language master’s degree programme “Personnel and Change Management” offers you the best possible training for this purpose due to its holistic view of the specialist areas as part of the overall corporate context and its focus on the future topics of “Digital Transformation”, “New Work and Personal 4.0” and “Cultural Change”.

Change Management in the master`s programme: Strategies for change

In our interactive lecture formats on “Digital Management” and “Change Management” you will learn how best to proceed in change projects and what effects digital transformation has on companies and management approaches. By means of numerous case studies, guest lectures and excursions, we will familiarise you with the basic principles and techniques of these fields in the following courses:

• Digital management
• Change management
• Organisational development and cultural change
• Control of digital transformation processes

New Work and Personal 4.0: Personnel management trends in the master’s programme

Due to digital change, personnel development in companies is increasingly coming into focus. HR managers therefore need a special tact and sensitivity to prepare employees for changes in their job description. In your “Change Management” degree course, you will deal with these new demands on modern personnel management and the fundamentals of sustainable leadership:

• New Work and Personnel 4.0
• Agile methods of modern personnel work
• International personnel management
• Personnel development and coaching
• Digital leadership

Your career opportunities after the master’s degree course “Personnel & Change Management

A degree in “Personnel and Change Management” offers you particularly diverse career opportunities in companies or self-employment due to its interdisciplinary, practical orientation. Our graduates are active in the following positions, among others:

• HR, People and Culture Manager HR Digital or (HR) Transformation Manager
• HR Development Manager, Coach, Agile Expert
• Change Manager, (HR) Transformation Manager, HR Digital Business Partner
• Management consultant in the areas of personnel, strategy and change management
• Management positions in middle and senior management
• Founding their own companies

If instead you aspire to an academic career, please contact our study advisors to find out about the doctoral opportunities at CBS or another university.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Bachelor's degree from a university or technical college

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS     :   6.5
• TOEFL   :   92

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