In order to develop a sound Final Master Thesis, students should have completed the following courses: - Managing and leading people - Strategic management - International strategic management - Organizational Behavior - Comparative HR - Financial management - Commercial management - Production management - Accounting - Selection and development - Managing Employee Attitudes and Behavior - Research methods and topics in HR

The Final Master Thesis is a unique opportunity to acquire the following competences and skills: - Identify relevant information sources on HR issues - Analyze and synthesize information on HR issues - Strategies for qualitative and quantitative data analysis - Develop an original well founded dissertation on HR issues - Present and defend one's own arguments on HR issues

Students will be required to work on their Master Thesis from the second term on. Each student will be supervised at least by one member of the faculty.

To develop the Master Thesis, students may employ a variety of methods in combination, such as: - The reading of relevant documents (e.g., book chapters, academic papers, handbooks, reports) on the HR issues to be studied; - Qualitative research tools, such as interviews with relevant informants (e.g., employees, managers); - Quantitative research tools, such as surveys.