People & Culture Management (MA)
About this program
What this degree covers and what you can expect from the university.
In today's working world, People & Culture Management makes all the difference!
People & Culture Management provides professional, social, interdisciplinary and future-oriented skills for the successful design of collaboration, leadership and corporate culture.
The labor market and employees' expectations of work itself have changed. Discussions focus on skills shortages, the challenges of intercultural collaboration, and the implications of new technologies for companies and their employees.
To remain competitive in the long term, it is crucial that companies respond appropriately to changing conditions. The People & Culture Management degree program provides a consistently interdisciplinary approach that focuses on people and organizational culture.
Our expectations for a meaningful and respectful work environment are also growing. Establishing a corporate culture that engages people is often not easy – especially when organizations are undergoing transformation. Professionals and managers in companies are facing new challenges:
How do I tackle complex challenges? How do I create a healthy, innovative, and agile work environment that puts people at the heart of business activities while simultaneously promoting the competitiveness of organizations? How do I establish a holistic mindset that enables necessary change?
The Master's program in People & Culture Management provides answers to these questions. It equips you with skills that are needed across all industries – for the future viability of companies and the well-being of people in the workplace.
Study profile
This distance learning course will teach you how to rethink leadership, corporate culture, and interaction with people.
You will acquire, through interdisciplinary training, precisely the skills you need for the corporate and human resources management of the future . The goal is to create a modern work environment that focuses on future-oriented, organizationally focused , and, above all, human-centered action .
A key aspect of the Master's program in People & Culture Management is to impart an understanding of current and future developments in society, the economy and the labor market – and at the same time to develop a solution-oriented approach to the resulting consequences.
You will learn to clearly analyze and critically question situations in order to develop suitable concepts and evaluate them. Furthermore, you will acquire the ability to act reflectively, plan effectively, and communicate constructively in order to collaborate respectfully and successfully and to deal with uncertainty .
This is how you enable a comprehensive transformation of work environments and guide people into the future of work . Among other things, you help prevent employee loss in organizations and promote the adequate filling of vacancies. This allows you to tackle problems at their root and prevent them before they even arise.
This makes you an asset in every industry and at every hierarchical level.
Program overview
Key facts about what you will study and how the program is delivered.
Program length
5 semesters (4 semesters plus 1 semester for the master's thesis)
How long it typically takes to complete this degree from start to finish.
Language requirement
English
This program is taught in English. You may still need to submit an English proficiency test depending on your nationality and previous education.
Eligibility & requirements
Check whether your academic background matches what the university expects.
Entrance / admission test
Not required
No separate entrance test is listed for this program. The university may still review your academic profile and documents.
Admission intakes & deadlines
Application dates and milestones for each intake period. Deadlines may vary by applicant category.
January Intake
Classes start January 2027
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Rolling Admissions / Open Application Distance Learning
To be announced
HFH offers continuous year-round application processing ("Anmeldung jederzeit").
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Official Semester Start Distance Learning
Official start date of the Winter/Spring intake cycle.
About the university
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